Recommended by Sherri Vaughn, FCL Reference Services
and Laurie Scott, FCL Children's Services
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- Allen, Preston L. All or Nothing.
- Anderson, M. T. The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavius Nothing).
- Baraka, Imanu Amiri. Tales of the Out and the Gone.
- Black, Mellenia.The Great Betrayal.
- Carter, Stephen L. New England White.
- Dickey, Eric Jerome. Sleeping wth Strangers.
- Ford, Wallace. What You Sow.
- Foster, Sharon Ewell. Abraham's Well.
- Hill, Donna. Wicked Ways.
- Hill, Lawrence. Someone Knows My Name.
- Howard, Ravi.Like Trees, Walking: A Novel.
- Hughes, Langston. Tambourines to Glory: A Novel.
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- Hunter, Travis. Something to Die For.
- Jakes, T. D.Not Easily Broken.
- Johnson, Deborah. The Air Between Us.
- Jones, Edward P. All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories.
- Mallette, Gloria. If There Be Pain.
- McBride, James. Song Yet Sung.
- McCall, Nathan. Them.
- Oates, Joyce Carol. Black Girl/White Girl: A Novel.
- Mosley, Walter. Blonde Faith.
- Pina, Gabrielle.Chasing Sophea.
- Roby, Kimberla Lawson. Love and Lies.
- Tademy, Lalita. Red River.
- Thomas, Trisha R. Nappily Faithful.
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- African-American Quiltmaking in Michigan by the M.S.U. Museum.
- Blight, David W. A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom: Including Their Own Narratives Of Emancipation.
- Bogle, Donald. Brown Sugar: The History of America's Black Female Superstars.
- Bridges, Constance Quarterman. Lions Don't Eat Us.
- Ficara, John Francis. Black Farmers in America.
- Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook. Mr. & Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved out of Slavery and into Legend.
- Giovanni, Nikki. Acolytes.
- Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance.
- Hofmann, Corinne. The White Masai.
- Jacobson, Steve. Carrying Jackie's Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball and America.
- Jacoway, Elizabeth. Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis that Shocked the Nation.
- Johnson, Michelle. Black Out: The Black Person's Guide to Redefining a Career Path Outside of Corporate America.
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- Littleton, Darryl. Black Comedians on Black Comedy: How African-Americans Taught Us to Laugh.
- Mo'Nique. Skinny Cooks Can't Be Trusted: In the Kitchen with Mo'Nique.
- New Negro: Readings on Race, Redemption, and African-American Culture, 1892–1938. Princeton University Press.
- Ricks, Mary Kay. Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad.
- Samuels, Allison. Off the Record: A Reporter Lifts the Velvet Rope on Hollywood, Hip-hop, and Sports.
- Steffans, Karrine. The Vixen Diaries
- Stodghill, Rod. Redbone: Money, Malice, and Murder in Atlanta.
- Tillery, Carolyn Quick. Southern Homecoming Traditions: Recipes and Remembrances.
- Vassel, Rachel. Daughters of Men: Portraits of African-American Women and Their Fathers.
- Wiggins, David K. Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes.
- Williams, Terrie M. Black Pain: t Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting; Real Talk for When There’s Nowhere To Go but Up.
- Winder, Delilah. Delilah's Everyday Soul: Southern Cooking with Style.
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Children's Fiction
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- Cameron, A. Gloria Rising.
- Coleman, E. Shadows on Society Hill: an Addy mystery /">Shadows on Society Hill—an Addy Mystery.
- Curry, J. The Black Canary.
- Curtis, C. Elijah of Buxton and Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money.
- Flake, S. The broken bike boy and the Queen of 33rd Street.
- Going, K.L. The Liberation of Gabriel King.
- Hart, A. Gabriel’s Horses.
- Lombard, J. Drita, My Homegirl.
- Maddox, J. Free Throw.
- McKissack, P. Away West, A Friendship for Today,and A Song for Harlem.
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Children's Non-Fiction
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Children's Biography
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- MacLeod, E. George Washington Carver—An Innovative Life.
- Haugen, B. Frederick Douglass: Slave, Writer, Abolitionist.
- Deans, K. Playing to Win: The Story of Althea Gibson.
- Winter, Jonah. Dizzy [Gillespie].
- Sandler, M. Dexter Jackson & the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers.
- Gelfand, D. Coretta Scott King: Civil Rights Activist.
- Bolden. T. M.L.K.: Journey of a King.
- Haskins, J. John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement.
- Feinstein, S. Wynton Marsalis.
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