African American

• The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
• The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
• NW by Zadie Smith
• Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans
• Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair
• I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
• The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
• The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
• Sula by Toni Morrison
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
• Native Son by Richard Wright (462)