The Black Americans: A History in Their Own Words, 1619-1983
edited by Milton Melter (Thomas Y. Crowell)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X

Passing
by Nella Larson

The Children Bob Moses Led
by William Heath

Devil in a Blue Dress
by Walter Mosley

The Color Purple
by Alice Walker

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Edited by Arnold Rampersad

Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou

Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?
by Patricia and Frederick McKissack

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
by Taylor Branch

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

Native Son
by Richard Wright

Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin

Beloved
by Toni Morrison

Fences
by August Wilson

Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston

A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansbury

Yesterday Will Make You Cry
by Chester Himes

Go Tell it On the Mountain
by James Baldwin

Brothers and Keepers
by John Edgar Wideman

Roots
by Alex Haley

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
by James McBride

Caucasia
by Danzy Senna

Middle Passage
by Charles Johnson

Race Matters
by Cornel West

Colored People: A Memoir
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Thomas and Beulah
by Rita Dove