Collage of 2015’s Most Critically Acclaimed Books (back to list)

Click for more detail about Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Click for more detail about The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Click for more detail about The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
Click for more detail about The Fishermen: A Novel by Chigozie Obioma
Click for more detail about Ruby by Cynthia Bond
Click for more detail about God Help the Child: A Novel by Toni Morrison
Click for more detail about Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate
Click for more detail about Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
Click for more detail about The Light Of The World: A Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander
Click for more detail about Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series) by Ross Gay
Click for more detail about Mama’s Boy by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Click for more detail about Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Peña
Click for more detail about Stand Your Ground: A Novel by Victoria Christopher Murray
Click for more detail about Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia
Click for more detail about Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews
Click for more detail about Welcome to Braggsville: A Novel by T. Geronimo Johnson
Click for more detail about Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Click for more detail about How to Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes
Click for more detail about Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
Click for more detail about Stamped from the Beginning (Revised): The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Click for more detail about X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz
Click for more detail about Provenance: A Novel by Donna Drew Sawyer
Click for more detail about The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson
Click for more detail about Spectacle: The Astonishing Life Of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk
Click for more detail about Ghost Summer: Stories by Tananarive Due
Click for more detail about Bibsy by Brenda Ross
Click for more detail about You Are Wonderfully Made: 12 Life-Changing Principles for Teen Girls to Embrace by Gwen Richardson and Sylvia Richardson
Click for more detail about 101 Scholarship Applications - 2015: What It Takes To Obtain A Debt-Free College Education by Gwen Richardson
Click for more detail about In This House by Loretta Diane Walker
Click for more detail about And Sometimes I Wonder About You: A Leonid Mcgill Mystery (Leonid Mcgill Mysteries) by Walter Mosley
Click for more detail about One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York by Arthur Browne
Click for more detail about Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian by Ethelene Whitmire
Click for more detail about Secret Indiscretions by Trice Hickman
Click for more detail about Saint Monkey: A Novel by Jacinda Townsend
Click for more detail about The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin
Click for more detail about Driving The King: A Novel by Ravi Howard
Click for more detail about Jezebel’s Daughter by Jacquelin Thomas
Click for more detail about The Summer of my Fifteenth Year by Geri Spencer Hunter
Click for more detail about The Truth is in the Wine: A Novel by Curtis Bunn
Click for more detail about Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
Click for more detail about S O S: Poems 1961-2013 by Amiri Baraka
Click for more detail about P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia
Click for more detail about The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America by Tamara Winfrey Harris
Click for more detail about Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson
Click for more detail about Wild Hundreds by Nate Marshall
Click for more detail about Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America by Wil Haygood
Click for more detail about Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family by Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams
Click for more detail about One Word from Sophia by Jim Averbeck
Click for more detail about Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
Click for more detail about Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs
Click for more detail about Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems by Robin Coste Lewis
Click for more detail about Ordinary Light: A Memoir by Tracy K. Smith