Black

One Crazy Summer

Rita Williams-Garcia

The Pleasures of the Damned

Charles Bukowski

Cash

Johnny Cash, Patrick Carr

The Girl With Seven Names: a North Korean Defector’s Story

Unknown author

Black Magic Sanction

Kim Harrison

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

Karen Abbott

The Scammer

Tiffany D. Jackson, January LaVoy

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

Benjamin Stevenson, Barton Welch

Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster

Gerri Willis

Homebodies

Tembe Denton-Hurst

The Macabre

Kosoko Jackson

Monster

Walter Dean Myers

If You Come Softly

Jacqueline Woodson

The Slave Ship

Marcus Rediker

Shadow of Night

Jennifer Ikeda, Deborah Harkness

Webb's Cosmos

Marcin Sawicki

Naples '44

Norman Lewis, Alex Kershaw

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin

How to Fight Racism

Jemar Tisby

Swing

Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess

Naughty

Velvet

Can't Stop Won't Stop

Jeff Chang, D.J. Kool Herc

When Morning Comes

Francis Ray

Freewater (newbery & Coretta Scott King Award Winner)

Amina Luqman-Dawson

Celeste's Harlem Renaissance

Eleanora E. Tate

Ghost Boys: the Graphic Novel

Jewell Parker Rhodes, Setor Fiadzigbey

The Chosen One

Echo Brown

Surprise, Kill, Vanish

Annie Jacobsen, Hachette Audio

Black Star

Kwame Alexander

Tyler Johnson Was Here

Jay Coles