- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Black Fatigue – How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit Mary-Frances Winters
- Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter – by Kerri K. Greenidde
- Blindspot, by Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald
- Caste – by Isabel Wilkerson
- Go Tell It on the Mountain by Jaems Baldwin
- How the Word Is Passed, by Clint Smith
- How to be an Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality and the Fight for the Neighborhood by P.E. Moskowitz.
- Journey of a Maturation Rollercoaster by Grequan Carter
- Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law by Richard Rothstein and Leah Rothstein – New on List
- Life and Times of Frederick Douglas by Frederick Douglas
- My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas
- Narrative of the Life by Frederick Douglas
- Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm” by Robin DiAngelo
- Ninety Feet Under: What poverty does to people by John Strazzabosco
- Sitting in the Fire by Arnold Mindell, Ph.D. – New on List
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- Strike the Hammer: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, NY, 1940 – 1970 by Dr. Laura Warren Hill
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X (classic)
- The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America by Shawn D. Rochester
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein.
- The Conversation by Robert Livingston
- The Cross and the Lynching tree by James H. Cone
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. – New on List
- The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
- The Sum of Us; What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga (Editor), Gloria Anzaldúa (Editor)
- Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
- Understanding and Combating Racism: My Path from Oblivious American to Evolving Activist by W.E. Wynne
- Waking up White: and finding myself in the story of race: Debby Irving
- We Want To Do More Than Survive, by Bettina Love –
- We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- White Like Me by Tim Wise
- You Will Never Amount to SH*T: An Autoenthography of Transforming Trauma to Triumph: One Man’s Journey Towards Healing by Kiah Nyame Ed.D.
- Your Children are Very Greatly in Danger: School Segregation in Rochester, New York by Justin Murphy