Nonfiction
Biographies and Memoirs
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
History
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari