Adult Non-Fiction

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo

Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler

The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America by D. Watkins

We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America by D. Watkins

When the Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors

No Justice: One White Police Officer, One Black Family, and How One Bullet Ripped Us Apart by Robbie Tolan

Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture by Robert L. Wilkins

Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till by Elliott J. Gorman

How We Fight White Supremacy - edited by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin

They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side by Eve L. Ewing

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-lodge

Tears We Can Not Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

I Can't Breath: A Killing on Bay Street by Matt Taibbi

What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, james Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson

Murder on Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham by Melanie S. Morrison

Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell

Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness by Jennifer Berry Hawes

13 Days in Ferguson by Ronald Johnson

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

*Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

*Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis

*The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby

The Color of the Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad

*The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X Kendi

How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi

*Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Administrations of Lunacy: A Story of Racism and Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum by Mab Segrest

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics by Leah Daughtry, Yolanda Caraway, Minyon Moore, Donna Brazile, and Veronica Chambers

Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persisten Myth by Kevin M. Levin

Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth

The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why by Jabari Asim

Bending Towards Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy by Gary May

Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North by C.S. Manegold

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Death of Innocence: The Hate Crime that Changed America by Mamie Till-Mobley

Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Janet Dewart Bell

The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House by Jesse J. Holland

*The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

*Afropean: Notes from Black Europe by Johny Pitts

*A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki

Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre by Randy Krehbiel

*The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Tim Madigan

Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Sybrina Fulton

For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Not Enough: Coming of age, Coming Out, and Coming Home by Keith Boykin

Freedom's Detectives: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror by Charles Lane

White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones

In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History by Mitch Landrieu

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson

The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman

State of Emergency: How We Win in the Country We Built by Tamika D. Mallory