Great Reads by Black Authors:

Michelle Alexander The New Jim Crow

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Infidel

Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

James Baldwin The Fire Next Time

Charles M. Blow Fire Shut Up in my Bones: A Memoir

Octavia Butler Kindred

Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me

Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

W.E.B.DuBois The Soul of Black Folk

Ralph Ellison The Invisible Man

Ernest Gaines A Lesson Before Dying

Henry Louis Gates Stony the Road

Roxane Gay Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Alex Haley The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun

Langston Hughes Not without Laughter

Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes were Watching God

Jamaica Kincaid Annie John

M. L. King, Jr. I Have a Dream

James McBride The Color of Water

Toni Morrison Sula

Barack Obama The Audacity of Hope

Suzan-Lori Parks Getting Mother’s Body

Ntozake Shange For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf

Alice Walker The Color Purple

Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns

Richard Wright Black Boy