The QBR 100 Essential Black Books
- A Black Theology of Liberation (Ethics and Society) by James H. Cone
- A Hard Road To Glory: A History Of The African American Athlete: Vol 3 1946-Present by Arthur Ashe
- A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
- A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
- AFRICA MUST UNITE by Kwame Nkrumah
- Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
- Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America; Sixth Revised Edition by Lerone Bennett
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Black Betty by Walter Mosley
- Black Bourgeoisie: The Book That Brought the Shock of Self-Revelation to Middle-Class Blacks in America by E. Franklin Frazier
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
- Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (Feminist Classics) by Michele Wallace
- Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton
- Black Power : The Politics of Liberation by Kwame Ture
- Black Reconstruction In America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
- Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
- Blues People: Negro Music in White America by Amiri Baraka
- Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology by Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen
- Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman
- Cane by Jean Toomer
- Clotel: Or, The President’s Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States by William Wells Brown
- Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African Americans by James M. Washington
- Damballah (Homewood Trilogy) by John Edgar Wideman
- Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby
- David Walker’s Appeal by David Walker
- Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
- Faith And The Good Thing by Charles Johnson
- Fences (1950s Century Cycle) by August Wilson
- For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
- From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans by John Hope Franklin
- Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- God’s Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène
- Guide My Feet: Prayers and Meditations for Our Children by Marian Wright Edelman
- I Have A Dream/ Also Letter From Birmingham Jail (Tale Blazers) by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
- Jubilee by Margaret Walker
- Kehinde by Buchi Emecheta
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
- Manchild In The Promised Land by Claude Brown
- Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
- Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe
- Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
- My Soul is a Witness: African-American Women’s Spirituality by Gloria Wade-Gayles
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989 by Stanley Crouch
- Our Nig: Or, Sketches From the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson
- Praise Song for the Widow by Paule Marshall
- Praisesong For The Widow by Paule Marshall
- Race Matters by Cornel West
- Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
- Sally Hemings: A Novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud
- Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton by Bobby Seale
- Sister Outsider: Essays And Speeches by Audre Lorde
- Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter
- Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
- Spirits of the Passage by Cornel West
- Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy Is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy by George G. M. James
- Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment for Black Women by Iyanla Vanzant
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As told to Alex Haley) by Malcolm X
- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines
- The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James
- The Blacker The Berry… by Wallace Thurman
- The Chaneysville Incident: A Novel by David Bradley
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The Conjure Stories (Norton Critical Editions) by Charles W. Chesnutt
- The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership by Harold Cruse
- The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams
- The Famished Road by Ben Okri
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The Hero And the Blues by Albert Murray
- The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Olaudah Equiano: Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano
- The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America by Arnold Rampersad
- The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1914-1967, I Dream a World by Arnold Rampersad
- The Lyrics Of Lowly Life by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- The Man Who Cried I Am by John A. Williams
- The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
- The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans: Or, Africa for the Africans by Marcus Mosiah Garvey
- The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
- The Souls of Black Folk: Includes “The Talented Tenth” and ”The Souls of White Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois
- The Spook Who Sat by the Door by Sam Greenlee
- The Street: A Novel by Ann Petry
- The Substance of Things Hoped for: A Memoir of African-American Faith by Samuel D. Proctor
- The Ways of White Folks: Stories by Langston Hughes
- The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
- The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
- They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah
- Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
- Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
- W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race by David Levering Lewis
- Waiting To Exhale by Terry McMillan
- We a BaddDDD People. by Sonia Sanchez
- Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine: A Novel by Bebe Moore Campbell