Stories - Experience - History - Hope
The Hate U Give
A 2017 young adult novel by Angie Thomas
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
A 1969 autobiography describing the young and early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou.
The Color Purple
A 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.
Beloved
A 1987 novel by American novelist Toni Morrison. Set in a period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of a dysfunctional family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit.
The Bluest Eye
Published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison. The novel takes place in Lorain, Ohio (Morrison's hometown), and tells the story of a young African American girl named Pecola who grew up following the Great Depression.
Native Son (1940)
A novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a Black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s.
Invisible Man
A novel by Ralph Ellison that won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1953, making Ellison the first African American writer to win the award.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
A 1937 novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston, which is considered a classic of the Harlem Renaissance, and Hurston's best-known work.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
An autobiography written by American minister Malcolm X, who collaborated with American journalist Alex Haley.
1619 Project
A Pulitzer Prize-winning writing by Nikole Hannah-Jones that details the legacy of Slavery.
Run: Book One
Late civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis' posthumous graphic novel, which is a sequel to Lewis' graphic novel memoir, "March", and chronicle the period following the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, an often overlook chapter of civil right history
The Holy Bible
A compilation of holy texts which was given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction and instruction in righteousness.
