1. The Grace of Silence: A Memoir by Michele Norris
2. Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority by Tom Burrell
3. Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family by Condoleezza Rice
4. The Next Big Story by Soledad O’Brien with Rose Marie Arce
5. Black Faces in White Places: 10 Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness by Randal Pinkett and Jeffrey Robinson
6. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
7. Black Business Secrets: 500 Tips, Strategies, and Resources for the African-American Entrepreneur by Dante Lee
8. Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat
9. A Game of Character: A Family Journey from Chicago’s Southside to the Ivy League and Beyond by Craig Robinson
10. The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
and Race, Class and Crime in America by Charles Ogletree
Honorable Mention
11. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
12. Losing My Cool: How a Father’s Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture by Thomas Chatterton Williams
13. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
14. The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
15. Children of Fire: A History of African-Americans by Thomas C. Holt
16. Damn Near White: An African-American Family’s Rise from Slavery to Bittersweet Success by Carolyn Marie Wilkins
17. SistahFaith: Real Stories of Pain, Truth and Triumph edited by Marilynn Griffith
18. Decoded by Jay-Z
19. The First: President Barack Obama’s Road to the White House by Roland S. Martin
20. Do I Have to Be a Starving Artist in the 21st Century? by Hisani Dubose
21. The Brand Within: The Power of Branding from Birth to the Boardroom}
by Daymond John
22. Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters by Barack Obama
23. Before Truth Set Me Free by Vanessa “Fluffy” Murray-Yisrael
24. America I AM: A Journal edited by Clarence Reynolds
25. Why Do I Have to Think Like a Man? by Shanae Hall
