Biographies & Memoirs

Barracoon

Zora Neale Hurston, Deborah G. Plant

Blueschild Baby

George Cain, Leslie Jamison

The Best Strangers in the World

Ari Shapiro

How to Stand Up to a Dictator

Maria Ressa, Amal Clooney

John Okada

Frank Abe, Greg Robinson

The Tao of Raven

Ernestine Hayes

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin

Lose Your Mother

Saidiya Hartman

When We Were the Kennedys

Monica Wood

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Black Box

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Barn

Wright Thompson

Black Moses

Caleb Gayle

To Save and to Destroy

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Floating Chinaman

Hua Hsu

Muhammad: Man and Prophet

Adil Salahi

King: a Life

Jonathan Eig

The Second Emancipation

Howard W. French

Frederick Douglass

David W. Blight

The Book of Charlie

David Von Drehle

Master Slave Husband Wife

Ilyon Woo

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs, Mint Editions

Steal Away Home

Karolyn Smardz Frost

The First Muslim

Lesley Hazleton

Muhammad

Martin Lings

Mailman

Stephen Starring Grant

Googoosh

Googoosh, Tara Dehlavi

The Prophet of Mercy

Mohammad Elshinawy, Omar Suleiman

No Time Like the Future

Michael J. Fox

A Well-trained Wife

Tia Levings

My Next Breath

Jeremy Renner

The Salt Path

Raynor Winn

Wishful Drinking

Carrie Fisher

Scrappy Little Nobody

Anna Kendrick

Big Dumb Eyes

Nate Bargatze

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Amy Chua

Awake

Jen Hatmaker