Curated Lists

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Paperback – January 7, 2020
by Michelle Alexander

The Message Hardcover – October 1, 2024
by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Author)

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah's Book Club Pick (Oprahs Book Club 2.0) Paperback – Deckle Edge, August 24, 2021
by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers (Author)

The Jailhouse Lawyer Hardcover – July 8, 2025
by Calvin Duncan (Author), Sophie Cull (Author)

The Invisible Ache: Black Men Identifying Their Pain and Reclaiming Their Power Hardcover – November 7, 2023
by Courtney B. Vance (Author), Dr. Robin L. Smith (Author)

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family Paperback – September 8, 2009
by Annette Gordon-Reed (Author)

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Paperback – October 25, 2016
by Edward E. Baptist

The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family Hardcover – November 8, 2022
by Kerri K. Greenidge

The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi Hardcover – June 11, 2024
by Boyce Upholt (Author)

The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding Hardcover – October 28, 2025
by Joseph J. Ellis (Author)

The Free and the Dead: The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chief, the Indigenous Rebel, and America's Forgotten War Hardcover – February 3, 2026
by Jamie Holmes (Author)

The Fraud: A Novel Hardcover – September 5, 2023 by Zadie Smith