Between The World And Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• NYT Best Book of the 21st Century
• A Top 10 Book in the “Nonfiction Books from the 21st Century” Category
• 10 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
• 1 Time Power List Bestselling Book
• Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2015
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
• A New York Times Notable Book for 2015

Spiegel & Grau (Jul 01, 2015)
Hardcover, 176 pages
Nonfiction

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After The Dance: My Life With Marvin Gaye
by Jan Gaye and David Ritz

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Amistad (May 01, 2015)
Hardcover
Nonfiction

Read Our Review of After The Dance: My Life With Marvin Gaye

One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York
by Arthur Browne

• Phillis Wheatley Book Award Honoree (2016)
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Beacon Press (Jun 30, 2015)
Hardcover, 336 pages
Fiction

Power Forward: My Presidential Education
by Reggie Love

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Simon & Schuster (Feb 03, 2015)
Hardcover, 224 pages
Fiction

Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
by Carole Boston Weatherford

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Albert Whitman & Company (Feb 01, 2015)
Hardcover, 32 pages
Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book

If You Plant a Seed
by Kadir Nelson

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Balzer + Bray (Mar 03, 2015)
Hardcover, 32 pages
Fiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book

Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts
by Nikki Grimes

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Orchard Books (Jan 06, 2015)
Hardcover, 56 pages
Fiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade

Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box
by Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Candlewick Press (Jul 14, 2015)
Hardcover, 32 pages
Fiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book

New Shoes
by Susan Meyer

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Holiday House (Jan 30, 2015)
Hardcover, 40 pages
Fiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book

The Fishermen: A Novel
by Chigozie Obioma

• 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
• Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2016)
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
• A New York Times Notable Book for 2015

Little, Brown and Company (Apr 14, 2015)
Hardcover, 304 pages
Fiction

The Turner House
by Angela Flournoy

• 1 Time Power List Bestselling Book
• Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2016)
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
• 2016 BCALA Literary Award
• A New York Times Notable Book for 2015

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Apr 14, 2015)
Hardcover, 352 pages
Fiction

The Star Side of Bird Hill
by Naomi Jackson

• Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2016)
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
• 2016 BCALA Literary Award

Penguin Press (Jun 30, 2015)
Hardcover, 304 pages
Fiction

The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America
by April Ryan

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Rowman & Littlefield (Feb 15, 2015)
Hardcover, 176 pages
Nonfiction

Read Our Review of The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America

The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken
by Wendell Pierce and Rod Dreher

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Riverhead Books (Sep 08, 2015)
Hardcover, 352 pages
Fiction

Stand Your Ground: A Novel
by Victoria Christopher Murray

• 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 5 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
• 1 Time Power List Bestselling Book
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Touchstone (Jun 01, 2015)
Paperback, 368 pages
Fiction

Driving The King: A Novel
by Ravi Howard

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
• 2016 BCALA Literary Award

Harper (Jan 06, 2015)
Hardcover, 336 pages
Fiction

Under the Udala Trees
by Chinelo Okparanta

• Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2016)
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Sep 22, 2015)
Hardcover, 336 pages
Fiction

Mama’s Boy
by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

• 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
• 1 Time Power List Bestselling Book
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Gallery Books (Jul 01, 2015)
Paperback
Fiction

Ghost Summer: Stories
by Tananarive Due

• 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Prime Books (Sep 01, 2015)
Paperback, 256 pages
Fiction

Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family
by Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams

• 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Clarkson Potter (Feb 03, 2015)
Hardcover, 224 pages
Nonfiction

Big Words to Little Me: Advice to the Younger Self
by Sakina Ibrahim, Jessie Lee, and Rah Crawford

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

CreateSpace (May 26, 2015)
Paperback, 78 pages
Nonfiction

Keep Calm… It’s Just Real Estate: Your No-Stress Guide to Buying a Home
by Egypt Sherrod

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Running Press (Mar 10, 2015)
Paperback, 224 pages
Nonfiction

Free Your Mind: An African American Guide to Meditation and Freedom
by Cortez R. Rainey

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

CreateSpace (Jul 16, 2015)
Paperback, 478 pages
Fiction

Grandbaby Cakes: Modern Recipes, Vintage Charm, Soulful Memories
by Jocelyn Delk Adams

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Agate Surrey (Sep 01, 2015)
Hardcover, 224 pages
Nonfiction

Spectacle: The Astonishing Life Of Ota Benga
by Pamela Newkirk

• Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2016)
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
• 2016 BCALA Literary Award

Amistad (Jun 01, 2015)
Hardcover
Nonfiction

50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership
by Kathey Porter and Andrea Hoffman

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Palgrave Macmillan (Nov 05, 2015)
Hardcover, 178 pages
Nonfiction

Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
by Wil Haygood

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
• 2016 BCALA Literary Award

Knopf (Sep 15, 2015)
Hardcover, 416 pages
Nonfiction

The Light Of The World: A Memoir
by Elizabeth Alexander

• 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2016)
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Grand Central Publishing (Apr 21, 2015)
Hardcover, 224 pages
Nonfiction

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
by Jill Leovy

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Spiegel & Grau (Jan 27, 2015)
Hardcover, 384 pages
Nonfiction

How to Be Drawn
by Terrance Hayes

• Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2016)
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

William Morrow (Mar 31, 2015)
Paperback, 112 pages
Poetry

Reconnaissance: Poems
by Carl Phillips

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Sep 01, 2015)
Hardcover, 64 pages
Poetry

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series)
by Ross Gay

• A 2024 National Bestselling Book - Poetry
• A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Poetry
• 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2016)
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

University of Pittsburgh Press (Jan 07, 2015)
Paperback, 112 pages
Poetry

Wild Hundreds
by Nate Marshall

• A Top 10 Book in the “Poetry Books of the 21st Century” Category
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
• 2016 BCALA Literary Award

University of Pittsburgh Press (Sep 09, 2015)
Paperback, 80 pages
Poetry

Redbone
by Mahogany L. Browne

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Aquarius Press/Willow Books (Oct 01, 2015)
Paperback, 80 pages
Poetry

X: A Novel
by Ilyasah Shabazz, Illustrated by Kekla Magoon

• Coretta Scott King Award Winning Book 2016
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Candlewick Press (Jan 06, 2015)
Hardcover, 384 pages
Fiction
Target Age Group: Young Adult

Untwine
by Edwidge Danticat

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Scholastic Press (Sep 29, 2015)
Hardcover, 320 pages
Fiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade

Stella by Starlight
by Sharon M. Draper

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Jan 06, 2015)
Hardcover, 336 pages
Fiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade

You Are Wonderfully Made: 12 Life-Changing Principles for Teen Girls to Embrace
by Gwen Richardson and Sylvia Richardson

• 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

CreateSpace (Sep 29, 2015)
Paperback, 102 pages
Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade

Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound
by Andrea Davis Pinkney

• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Roaring Brook Press (Sep 29, 2015)
Hardcover, 176 pages
Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade