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Black Author Must Reads

God Help the Child, by Toni Morrison

Year of Yes, by Shonda Rhimes

Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, by Issa Rae

Push, by Sapphire

12 Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? , by Beverly Tatum 

A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest Gaines 

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, by Barack Obama 

The Learning Tree, by Gordan Parks

Sounder, by William Armstrong

The Mis-Education of the Negro, by Carter Woodson

To Be Young, Gifted and Black, by Lorraine Hansberry

Burning Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Carl Walters