1. “Assata: An Autobiography” by Assata Shakur 2. “Moonwalk” by Michael Jackson 3. “Song of Solomon” by Toni Morrison 4. “Visions for Black Men” by Na’im Akbar 5. “The Coldest Winter Ever” by Sister Souljah 6. “Dreams from My Father” by Barack Obama 7. “Sag Harbor” by Colson Whitehead 8. “Monster” by Walter Dean Myers 9. “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe 10. “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston 11. “When Chickenheads Come Home To Roost” by Joan Morgan 12. “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” as told to Alex Haley 13. “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison 14. “Interiors: A Black Woman’s Healing…in Progress” by Iyanla Vanzant 15. “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison 16. “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker 17. “Blues People” by Amiri Baraka 18. “Our Kind of People” by Lawrence Otis Graham 19. “Picking Cotton” by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino 20. “What is the What” by Dave Eggers 21. “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center” by bell hooks 22. “Soledad Brother” by George Jackson 23. “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz 24. “Good To Great” by Jim Collins 25. “Purple Cow” by Seth Godin 26. “Down These Mean Streets” by Piri Thomas 27. “Flyy Girl” by Omar Tyree 28. “Summer Of My German Soldier” by Bette Greene 29. “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry 30. “A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn 31. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou 32. “Miles: The Autobiography” by Miles Davis 33. “Invisible Life” by E. Lynn Harris 34. “Kaffir Boy” by Mark Mathabane 35. “Kindred” by Octavia Butler 36. “Letter to My Daughter” by Maya Angelou 37. “Manchild in the Promised Land” by Claude Brown 38. “Mis-Education of the Negro” by Carter G. Woodsen 39. “If Beale Street Could Talk” by James Baldwin 40. “Nile Valley Contributions To Civilization” by Tony Browder 41. “I Am Not Sidney Poitier” by Percival Everett 42. “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell 43. “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” by Robert Kiyosaki 44. “Roots” by Alex Haley 45. “Sula” by Toni Morrison 46. “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho 47. “Who Am I Without Him?” by Sharon Flake 48. “Twelve Years a Slave” by Solomon Northup 49. “Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine” by Bebe Moore Campbell