“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Arc & Hue, Tara Betts
Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor
Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay
Bayou Volume 1 & 2, Jeremy Love
Between the World and Me, Ta-nehisi Coates
Black Cool, Rebecca Walker
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, Lucille Clifton
Bloodchild and Other Stories, Octavia E. Butler
Bronx Masquerade, Nikki Grimes
Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine
Coraline, Neil Gaiman
Glaciers, Alexis M. Smith
Fingering the Keys, Reuben Jackson
Fledgling, Octavia Butler
47, Walter Mosley
Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney
Honest Engine, Kyle Dargan
Honey, I Love and Other Poems, Eloise Greenfield
Incorrect Merciful Impulses, Camille Rankine
Kindred, Octavia Butler
Light Boxes, Shane Jones
Lighthead, Terrance Hayes
Locomotion, Jacqueline Woodson
Long Division, Kiese Laymon
Love that Dog, Sharon Creech
M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, A. Van Jordan
Maud Martha, Gwendolyn Brooks
Pym, Mat Johnson
Recyclopedia, Harryette Mullen
Same Difference, Derek Kirk Kim
Scaredy Kate, Jacob Grant
She, Saul Williams
Silver Sparrow, Tayari Jones
Slapboxing with Jesus, Victor LaValle
Sula, Toni Morrison
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka
The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
The House you Pass on the Way, Jacqueline Woodson
The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa
The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang
The Lonely Book, Kate Bernheimer
The Lover’s Dictionary, David Levithan
The Night Bookmobile, Audrey Niffenegger
The Notebooks of Melanin Sun, Jacqueline Woodson
The People of Paper, Salvador Plascentia
The Selected Poems,1968-1995, Nikki Giovanni
The Star Side of Bird Hill, Naomi Jackson
Their Eyes are Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
32 Candles, Ernessa T. Carter
This is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz
We the Animals, Justin Torres
Wench, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Wisdom Teeth, Derrick W. Brown
*This list will grow until it reaches 100*
