- Finding Langston, Lesa Cline-Ransome
- Sooley, John Grisham
- American war, a novel, Omar el Akkad
- Trouble is what I do, Walter Mosley
- The president's daughter, Bill Clinton and James Patterson
- Box, Henry Brown mails himself to freedom, Carole Boston Weatherford
- How beautiful we were, a novel, Imbolo Mbue
- Down the river unto the sea, Walter Mosley
- The Lincoln highway, a novel, Amor Towles
- Clean getaway, Nic Stone
- Leaving Lymon, Lesa Cline-Ransome
- Dark sky rising, Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with Tonya Bolden
- Dear Martin, Nic Stone
- Odd one out, Nic Stone
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius, Dave Eggers
- John Woman, Walter Mosley
- Concrete rose, Angie Thomas
- The starless sea, a novel, Erin Morgenstern