Start with high-confidence activism & social justice books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
A Good Kind of Trouble
Lisa Moore Ramée
Looking for Smoke
K. A. Cobell
Tyler Johnson Was Here
Jay Coles
Six Truths and a Lie
Ream Shukairy
Split the Sky (coretta Scott King Author Honor Title)
Marie Arnold
For Black Girls Like Me
Mariama J Lockington
Warrior Girl Unearthed
Angeline Boulley
Radical Inclusion
David Moinina Sengeh
Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline Boulley, Isabella Star LaBlanc
SLAY
Brittney Morris
We Go Where They Go
Shannon Clay, Lady
Micro Activism
Omkari L. Williams, Layla F. Saad
All the Noise at Once
DeAndra Davis
We Bury Nothing
Kate Blair