- Hell of a book, or the altogether factual, wholly bona fide story of a big dreams, hard luck, American-made mad kid, Jason Mott
- Four treasures of the sky, Jenny Tinghui Zhang
- Right as rain, a novel, George P. Pelecanos
- Maizy Chen's last chance, Lisa Yee
- Ghost boys, by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Antiracist Baby, Ibram X. Kendi ; illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky
- A good neighborhood, a novel, Therese Anne Fowler
- The getaway, Lamar Giles
- Holler of the fireflies, David Barclay Moore
- Friday black, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- The Nickel boys, a novel, Colson Whitehead
- The weight of blood, Tiffany D. Jackson
- Small great things, a novel, Jodi Picoult
- Sterling karat gold, a novel, Isabel Waidner
- What's mine and yours, a novel, Naima Coster
- A gate at the stairs, a novel by Lorrie Moore
- We hope for better things, Erin Bartels
- The undertakers, Nicole Glover
- Members only, Sameer Pandya
- Ophie's ghosts, Justina Ireland
- Line of sight, James Queally
- Something happened in our town, a child's story about racial injustice, by Marianne Celano, PhD, ABPP, Marietta Collins, PhD, and Ann Hazzard, PhD, ABPP ; illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin
- A mercy, Toni Morrison
- Small great things, Jodi Picoult
- The bullet swallower, a novel, Elizabeth Gonzalez James
- Riot baby, Tochi Onyebuchi
- John Henry Days, a novel, Colson Whitehead
- The sleeping car porter, Suzette Mayr
- These bones, by Kayla Chenault
- Tremor, a novel, Teju Cole
- Prairie lotus, Linda Sue Park
- The kindest lie, a novel, Nancy Johnson
- The record keeper, Agnes Gomillion
- Small great things, a novel, Jodi Picoult
- Scary monsters, a novel in two parts, Michelle de Kretser
- Our best intentions, a novel, Vibhuti Jain
- Ace of spades, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
- We deserve monuments, Jas Hammonds
- Harry Sylvester Bird, Chinelo Okparanta
- The awakening of Malcolm X, a novel by Ilyasah Shabazz with Tiffany D. Jackson
- The man who lived underground, a novel, Richard Wright ; afterword by Malcolm Wright
- This is my America, Kim Johnson
- The trees, a novel, Percival Everett
- Frankly in love, David Yoon
- Dear Martin, Nic Stone
- All American boys, Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely
- The bluest eye, Toni Morrison ; with a new afterword by the author
- The hate u give, Angie Thomas
- Like a bird, Fariha Roisin
- Don't ask me where I'm from, Jennifer De Leon