- The Queen of Palmyra, a novel, Minrose Gwin
- The kindest lie, a novel, Nancy Johnson
- New waves, a novel, Kevin Nguyen
- A passage to India, E.M. Forster
- Folly Park, a novel, Heidi Hackford
- We are all welcome here, a novel, Elizabeth Berg
- New boy, Tracy Chevalier
- You don't know everything, Jilly P!, Alex Gino
- To kill a mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- When the reckoning comes ;, a novel, LaTanya McQueen
- Conjure women, a novel, Afia Atakora
- Heaven, my home, Attica Locke
- The only black girls in town, Brandy Colbert
- The Guardians, John Grisham
- The lions of Little Rock, Kristin Levine
- What's mine and yours, a novel, Naima Coster
- The hate u give, Angie Thomas
- Brother, David Chariandy
- The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian, by Sherman Alexie ; art by Ellen Forney
- Small great things, a novel, Jodi Picoult
- That kind of mother, Rumaan Alam
- Root magic, Eden Royce
- This other Eden, a novel, Paul Harding
- When Winter Robeson came, Brenda Woods
- Bluebird, bluebird, a novel, Attica Locke
- Such a fun age, a novel, Kiley Reid
- Go set a watchman, Harper Lee
- The beautiful things that heaven bears, Dinaw Mengestu
- Maame, Jessica George
- The holdout, a novel, Graham Moore
- The sellout, Paul Beatty
- This is my America, Kim Johnson
- The Guardians, John Grisham
- The holdout, a novel, Graham Moore
- Blended, Sharon M. Draper
- The kindest lie, a novel, Nancy Johnson
- We are water, a novel, Wally Lamb
- The man who lived underground, a novel, Richard Wright ; afterword by Malcolm Wright
- Small great things, Jodi Picoult
- Invisible son, Kim Johnson
- The Paragon Hotel, Lyndsay Faye
- If I ever get out of here, Eric Gansworth
- Antelope Woman, a novel, Lousie Erdrich
- The two lives of Sara, a novel, Catherine Adel West
- Rebecca, not Becky, a novel, Christine Platt and Catherine Wigginton Greene
- The best bad luck I ever had, Kristin Levine
- To kill a mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Paperboy, Vince Vawter
- Maame, Jessica George
- Lies we tell ourselves, Robin Talley