| Date | Book | Author |
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| August 1, 1970 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou |
| August 17, 1976 | Roots: The Saga of an American Family | Alex Haley |
| April 12, 1981 | Tar Baby | Toni Morrison |
| 1984 | The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| January 25, 1987 | Fatherhood | Bill Cosby |
| August 16, 1987 | Time Flies | Bill Cosby |
| May 8, 1988 | Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| May 8, 1988 | Moonwalk | Michael Jackson |
| May 20, 1990 | The Temple of My Familiar | Alice Walker |
| May 20, 1990 | Love and Marriage | Bill Cosby |
| December 30, 1990 | Bo Knows Bo | Bo Jackson and Dick Schaap |
| November 17, 1991 | Childhood | Bill Cosby |
| May 3, 1992 | Jazz | Toni Morrison |
| August 2, 1992 | Waiting to Exhale | Terry McMillan |
| August 2, 1992 | Possessing the Secret of Joy | Alice Walker |
| October 3, 1993 | Days of Grace | Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad |
| October 31, 1993 | Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now | Maya Angelou |
| November 21, 1993 | Secrets of a Sparrow | Diana Ross |
| July 31, 1994 | Black Betty | Walter Mosley |
| July 31, 1994 | Shadow of the Panther | Hugh Pearson |
| July 31, 1994 | These Same Long Bones | Gwendolyn M. Parker |
| June 4, 1995 | One by One From the Inside Out | Glenn C. Loury |
| November 19, 1995 | The All American Skin Game | Stanley Crouch |
| May 16, 1996 | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Terry McMillan |
| June 2, 1996 | Bad as I Wanna Be | Dennis Rodman with Tim Keown |
| June 2, 1996 | In Contempt | Christopher Darden with Jess Walter |
| December 1, 1996 | Don't Block the Blessings | Patti LaBelle with Laura B. Randolph |
| March 16, 1997 | Bayard Rustin: Troubles I've Seen | Jervis Anderson |
| November 16, 1997 | Book | Whoopi Goldberg |
| February 1, 1998 | Paradise | Toni Morrison |
| March 1, 1998 | Addicted | Zane (author) |
| November 28, 1998 | For the Love of the Game: My Story | Michael Jordan |
| October 3, 1999 | Yesterday, I Cried | Iyanla Vanzant |
| January 30, 2000 | The Rock Says | Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson with Joe Laydon |
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| September 24, 2000 | Not a Day Goes By | E. Lynn Harris |
| December 31, 2000 | Until Today! | Iyanla Vanzant |
| February 5, 2001 | A Day Late and a Dollar Short | Terry McMillan |
| September 9, 2001 | Cane River | Lalita Tademy |
| September 9, 2001 | Any Way the Wind Blows | E. Lynn Harris |
| November 18, 2001 | Q | Quincy Jones |
| March 31, 2002 | Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word | Randall Kennedy |
| June 8, 2002 | The Emperor of Ocean Park | Stephen L. Carter |
| June 8, 2003 | The Other Woman | Eric Jerome Dickey |
| October 12, 2003 | Three Weeks in November | Charles Moose and Charles Fleming |
| July 18, 2004 | On the Down Low | J. L. King and Karen Hunter |
| February 6, 2005 | Blink | Malcolm Gladwell |
| April 30, 2006 | Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings | Tyler Perry |
| November 12, 2006 | The Audacity of Hope | Barack Obama |
| April 15, 2007 | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | Ishmael Beah |
| August 5, 2007 | Quiet Strength | Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker |
| October 21, 2007 | My Grandfather's Son | Clarence Thomas |
| October 7, 2008 | The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems | Van Jones |
| December 21, 2008 | Outliers | Malcolm Gladwell |
| June 2, 2009 | Dork Diaries Book 1: Tales From a Not-So-Fabulous Life | Rachel Renee Russell |
| July 7, 2009 | America's Most Wanted Recipes | Ron Douglas |
| November 1, 2009 | Push | Sapphire (author) |
| November 1, 2009 | Say You're One of Them | Uwem Akpan |
| November 19, 2009 | The Cartel 2 | Ashley & JaQuavis |
| June 8, 2010 | Dork Diaries Book 2: Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl | Rachel Renee Russell |
| Nov 22, 2010 | The Adventures of Angus the Mouse | Montice Harmon |
| February 13, 2011 | What the Dog Saw | Malcolm Gladwell |
| February 13, 2011 | Decoded | Jay-Z |
| February 27, 2011 | I Beat the Odds | Michael Oher with Don Yaeger |
| June 7, 2011 | Dork Diaries Book 3: Tales From a Not-So-Talented Pop Star | Rachel Renee Russell |
| October 11, 2011 | Dork Diaries Book 3.5: How To Dork Your Diary | Rachel Renee Russell |
| January 1, 2012 | The New Jim Crow | Michelle Alexander |
| April 3, 2012 | Rebuild the Dream | Van Jones |
| June 5, 2012 | Dork Diaries Book 4: Tales From a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess | Rachel Renee Russell |
| October 2, 2012 | Dork Diaries Book 5: Tales From a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All | Rachel Renee Russell |
| November 12, 2012 | The Cartel 4 | Ashley & JaQuavis |
| June 4, 2013 | Dork Diaries Book 6: Tales From a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker | Rachel Renee Russell |
| October 1, 2013 | Dork Diaries OMG!: All About Me Diary! | Rachel Renee Russell |
| March 9, 2014 | David and Goliath | Malcolm Gladwell |
| June 3, 2014 | Dork Diaries Book 7: Tales From a Not-So-Glam TV Star | Rachel Renee Russell |
| June 8, 2014 | One Nation | Ben Carson with Candy Carson |
| September 30, 2014 | Dork Diaries Book 8: Tales From a Not-So-Happily Ever After | Rachel Renee Russell |
| June 2, 2015 | Dork Diaries Book 9: Tales From a Not-So-Dorky Drama Queen | Rachel Renee Russell |
| August 2, 2015 | Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| September 20, 2015 | Everything, Everything | Nicola Yoon |
| October 20, 2015 | Dork Diaries Book 10: Tales From a Not-So-perfect Pet Sitter | Rachel Renee Russell |
| May 29, 2016 | Hamilton: The Revolution | Lin-Manuel Miranda & Jeremy McCarter |
| June 7, 2016 | The Misadventures of Max Crumbly Book 1: Locker Hero | Rachel Renee Russell |
| June 26, 2016 | I Almost Forgot About You | Terry McMillan |
| June 26, 2016 | Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi |
| September, 2016 | Year of Yes | Shonda Rhimes |
| November 3, 2016 | The Sun is also a Star | Nicola Yoon |
| November 15, 2016 | Dork Diaries Book 11: Tales From a Not-So-Friendly Frenemy | Rachel Renee Russell |
| January 29, 2017 | Hidden Figures | Margot Lee Shetterly |
| January 29, 2017 | Kindred (graphic novel) | Octavia Butler with Damian Duffy and John Jennings |
| February 28, 2017 | The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas |
| March 26, 2017 | Dear Ijeawele | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| April 9, 2017 | The 1997 Masters: My Story | Tiger Woods with Lorne Rubenstein |
| May 7, 2017 | Black Privilege | Charlamagne tha God |
| May 21, 2017 | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry | Neil deGrasse Tyson |
| May 21, 2017 | The Book of Joy | Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu |
| May 28, 2017 | Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom | Condoleezza Rice |
| June 6, 2017 | The Misadventures of Max Crumbly Book 2: Middle School Mayhem | Rachel Renee Russell |
| June 25, 2017 | I Can't Make This Up | Kevin Hart & Neil Strauss |
| July 2, 2017 | Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body | Roxane Gay |
| July 9, 2017 | Born a Crime | Trevor Noah |
| August 27, 2017 | The Crossover | Kwame Alexander |
| October 10, 2017 | Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together | Van Jones |
| October 17, 2017 | Dork Diaries Book 12: Tales From a Not-So-Secret Crush Catastrophe | Rachel Renee Russell |
| November 5, 2017 | Dear Martin | Nic Stone |
| December 4, 2017 | The Last Black Unicorn | Tiffany Haddish |
| December 5, 2017 | Little Leaders | Vashti Harrison |
| January 21, 2018 | Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward |
| February 6, 2018 | The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
| February 6, 2018 | An American Marriage | Tayari Jones |
| February 6, 2018 | The Belles | Dhonielle Clayton |
| March 6, 2018 | Children of Blood and Bone | Tomi Adeyemi |
| October 16, 2018 | Dork Diaries Book 13: Tales From a Not-So-Happy Birthday | Rachel Renee Russell |
| June 4, 2019 | The Misadventures of Max Crumbly Book 3: Masters of Mischief | Rachel Renee Russell |
| October 22, 2019 | Dork Diaries Book 14: Tales From a Not-So-Best Friend Forever | Rachel Renee Russell |
| September 26, 2023 | Dork Diaries Book 15: Tales From a Not-So-Best Posh Paris Adventure | Rachel Renee Russell |
