Collage of 2021’s Most Acclaimed Books

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

The Sweetness of Water

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

Just As I Am

The Sellout

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Stacey’s Extraordinary Words

Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

The Personal Librarian

Home Is Not a Country

Black Girl, Call Home

Praise Song for the Widow

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

Yellow Wife

Black Bottom Saints (Paperback)

The Chaneysville Incident: A Novel

Imbila’s Tale: An English/Zulu Flipbook for Children

Sho

We Are Each Other’s Harvest

Magic City: A Novel

Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography

The Between

How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

While Justice Sleeps

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

The Prophets

The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem

Born on the Water: The 1619 Project

Call Us What We Carry: Poems

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror!

Palmares

Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion

Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

The Three Mothers (Hardcover)

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Me (Moth)

My Monticello: Fiction

May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem

Wild Women and the Blues

The Girl with the Louding Voice

Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country

Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People

Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America

Seven Days in June

The Man Who Lived Underground

The Trees

In Every Mirror She’s Black

Creatures of Passage

Punks: New & Selected Poems

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South

The Other Black Girl

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora