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Titles	Order
Negro politicians; the rise of Negro politics in Chicago by Harold F Gosnell	Nonfiction, 1936
We Europeans by Julian Huxley	Nonfiction, 1937
We Americans; a study of cleavage in an American city by Elin L Anderson	Nonfiction, 1938
An African American in South Africa by Ralph J. Bunche	Nonfiction, 1939
The Negro college graduate by Charles Spurgeon Johnson	Nonfiction, 1939
The Negro family in the United States by E. Franklin Frazier	Nonfiction, 1940
From Many Lands by Louis Adamic	Nonfiction, 1941
The Haitian people by James Graham Leyburn	Nonfiction, 1942
Quest : the evolution of a scientist by Leopold Infeld	Nonfiction, 1942
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography by Zora Neale Hurston	Nonfiction, 1943
New World A-Coming: Inside Black America by Roi Ottley	Nonfiction, 1944
The World of Sholom Aleichem by Maurice Samuel	Nonfiction, 1944
Earth and High Heaven by Gwethalyn Graham	Fiction, 1945
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy by Gunnar Myrdal	Nonfiction, 1945
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City by St. Clair Drake	Nonfiction, 1946
One Nation by Wallace Stegner	Nonfiction, 1946
East River by Sholem Asch	Fiction, 1947
Latin Americans in Texas by Pauline R. Kibbe	Nonfiction, 1947
The Other Room by Worth Tuttle Hedden	Fiction, 1948
The Indians of the Americas by John Collier	Nonfiction, 1948
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton	Fiction, 1949
Anatomy of paradise by J. C. Furnas	Nonfiction, 1949
Punishment without crime : what you can do about prejudice by Solomon Andhil Fineberg	Nonfiction, 1950
Your Most Humble Servant by Shirley Graham	Nonfiction, 1950
The Wall by John Hersey	Fction, 1951
Twilight in South Africa by Henry Gibbs	Nonfiction, 1951
Race and Ethnic Relations by Brewton Berry	Nonfiction, 1952
Venture to the Interior by Laurens Van der Post	Nonfiction, 1952
A Many-Splendored Thing by Suyin Han	Nonfiction, 1953
People of the Deer by Farley Mowat	Nonfiction, 1953
Simple takes a wife by Langston Hughes	Fiction, 1954
Struggle for Africa by Vernon Bartlett	Nonfiction, 1954
Cultural difference and medical care; the case of the Spanish-speaking people of the Southwest by Lyle Saunders	Nonfiction, 1955
Report on Africa by Oden Meeker	Nonfiction, 1955
A manual of intergroup relations by John Peebles Dean	Nonfiction, 1956
They wait in darkness by George W. Shepherd	Nonfiction, 1956
The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization by Gilberto Freyre	Nonfiction, 1957
Naught for your comfort by Trevor Huddleston	Nonfiction, 1957
Handbook on Race Relations in South Africa. by Ellen Hellmann	Nonfiction, 1958
White mother by Jessie Bennett Sams	Nonfiction, 1958
Racial and cultural minorities; an analysis of prejudice and discrimination by George Eaton Simpson	Nonfiction, 1959
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story by Martin Luther King, Jr.	Nonfiction, 1959
The Lost Cities of Africa by Basil Davidson	Nonfiction, 1960
I speak for myself; the autobiography of John Haynes Holmes by John Haynes Holmes	Nonfiction, 1960
The Reluctant African by Louis E. Lomax	Nonfiction, 1961
To Sir, With Love by E. R. Braithwaite	Nonfiction, 1961
The Forbidden Man by Gina Allen	Fiction, 1962
Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America by Dwight Lowell Dumond	Nonfiction, 1962
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin	Nonfiction, 1962
Mankind Evolving: The Evolution of the Human Species by Theodosius Dobzhansky	Nonfiction, 1963
Beyond The Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City by Nathan Glazer	Nonfiction, 1964
Faith and prejudice; intergroup problems in Protestant curricula by Bernhard Emmanuel Olson	Nonfiction, 1964
The New World of Negro Americans by Harold Robert Isaacs	Nonfiction, 1964
Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion and National Origins by Milton M. Gordon	Nonfiction, 1965
A history of the Jews by Abram Leon Sachar	Nonfiction, 1965
Mississippi: the closed society by James W. Silver	Nonfiction, 1965
The Struggle for Equality by James M. McPherson	Nonfiction, 1965
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X	Nonfiction, 1966
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown	Nonfiction, 1966
The Unity of Mankind in Greek Thought by H. C. Baldry	Nonfiction, 1966
Your Heredity and Environment by Amram Scheinfeld	Nonfiction, 1966
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis	Nonfiction, 1967
La Vida; A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty—San Juan and New York by Oscar Lewis	Nonfiction, 1967
Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear by Robert Coles	Nonfiction, 1968
The Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg	Nonfiction, 1968
The Jews among the nations by Erich von Kahler	Nonfiction, 1968
Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Norman Rufus Colin Cohn	Nonfiction, 1968
In the Mecca: Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks	Fiction, 1969
The American Indian today by Stuart Levine	Nonfiction, 1969
The Leo Frank Case by Leonard Dinnerstein	Nonfiction, 1969
Negro and white children; a psychological study in the rural South by E.Earl Baughman	Nonfiction, 1969
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Jr. Vine Deloria	Nonfiction, 1970
The Great Betrayal by Audrie Girdner	Nonfiction, 1970
The Negro in Brazilian society by Florestan Fernandes	Nonfiction, 1970
Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South by Dan T. Carter	Nonfiction, 1970
Black freedom; the nonviolent abolitionists from 1830 through the Civil War by Carleton Mabee	Nonfiction, 1971
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca by Anthony Wallace	Nonfiction, 1971
A History of the African People by Robert William July	Nonfiction, 1971
La raza: the Mexican Americans by Stan Steiner	Nonfiction, 1971
The autobiography of an unknown South African by Naboth Mokgatle	Nonfiction, 1972
The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914 by George M. Fredrickson	Nonfiction, 1972
The Healing of a Nation by David Loye	Nonfiction, 1972
Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859 - 1900 by John S. Haller	Nonfiction, 1972
Slavery in the Structure of American Politics, 1765-1820 by Donald L. Robinson	Nonfiction, 1972
Behind Ghetto Walls: Black Family Life in a Federal Slum by Lee Rainwater	Nonfiction, 1973
Men & Brothers: Anglo-American Antislavery Cooperation by Betty Fladeland	Nonfiction, 1973
The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy	Nonfiction, 1973
Doctor and the aborigines by Charles Duguid	Nonfiction, 1974
The Dreyfus case: a documentary history by Louis Leo Snyder	Nonfiction, 1974
Justice in South Africa by Albie Sachs	Nonfiction, 1974
The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright by Michel Fabre	Nonfiction, 1974
The Aryan Myth: A History of Racist and Nationalistic Ideas In Europe by Leon Poliakov	Nonfiction, 1975
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese	Nonfiction, 1975
Arabs by Thomas Kiernan	Nonfiction, 1976
The myth of the Jewish race by Raphael Patai	Nonfiction, 1976
The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945 by Lucy S. Dawidowicz	Nonfiction, 1976
Simple Justice by Richard Kluger	Nonfiction, 1977
Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps by Michi Weglyn	Nonfiction, 1977
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston	1978
The Legacy of Malthus : The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism by Allan Chase	Nonfiction, 1978
The Bushmen : San hunters and herders of Southern Africa by Phillip V. Tobias	Nonfiction, 1979
The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society by Richard Borshay Lee	Nonfiction, 1980
The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design by Urie Bronfenbrenner	Nonfiction, 1980
Maasai by Tepilit Ole Saitoti	Nonfiction, 1981
Song from the earth : American Indian painting by Jamake Highwater	Nonfiction, 1981
Evangelist of Race: The Germanic Vision of Houston Stewart Chamberlain by Geoffrey G. Field	Nonfiction, 1982
People of the Sacred Mountain by Peter J. Powell	Nonfiction, 1982
Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka	1983
Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez	Nonfiction, 1983
From immigrants to ethnics : the Italian Americans by Humbert S. Nelli	Nonfiction, 1984
Pre-Columbian Art by José Alcina Franch	Nonfiction, 1984
Mouroir: mirrornotes of a novel by Breyten Breytenbach	Fiction, 1985
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman	Nonfiction, 1985
Freedom rising by James North	Nonfiction, 1986
Kachinas: A Hopi Artist's Documentary by Barton Wright	Nonfiction, 1986
Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community and the First Amendment (Nazis in Skokie) by Donald Alexander Downs	Nonfiction, 1986
The Life of Langston Hughes [2-volume set] by Arnold Rampersad	Nonfiction, 1987
Spirit of Survival by Gail Sheehy	Nonfiction, 1987
Beloved by Toni Morrison	Fiction, 1988
A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer	Fiction, 1988
Living Maya by Walter F. Morris, Jr.	Nonfiction, 1988
Whose Votes Count?: Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights (Twentieth Century Fund Study) by Abigail M. Thernstrom	Nonfiction, 1988
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 by Taylor Branch	1989
Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia by Peter Sutton	Nonfiction, 1989
Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction by Hallie Q. Brown	Nonfiction, 1989
A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition by George Lipsitz	Nonfiction, 1989
The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women by Dolores Kendrick	Fiction, 1990
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire: New Edition by David Bindman	Nonfiction, 1990
African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa by Carol Beckwith	Nonfiction, 1991
The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Race in America by Forrest G. Wood	Nonfiction, 1991
Gunnar Myrdal and America's conscience : social engineering and racial liberalism, 1938-1987 by Walter A. Jackson	Nonfiction, 1991
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison	Landmark, 1992
The Homeplace by Marilyn Nelson Waniek	Nonfiction, 1992
The IQ Mythology: Class, Race, Gender, and Inequality by Elaine Mensh	Nonfiction, 1992
Lessons and Legacies I: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World (v. 1) by Peter Hayes	Nonfiction, 1992
Lessons and Legacies II: Teaching the Holocaust in a Changing World by Donald G. Schilling	Nonfiction, 1992
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction by Melissa Fay Greene	Nonfiction, 1992
The Civilization of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe by Marija Gimbutas	Fiction, 1993
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros	Fiction, 1993
In My Father's House by Kwame Anthony Appiah	Nonfiction, 1993
The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry by Judith Ortiz Cofer	Fiction, 1994
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki	Nonfiction, 1994
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race by David Levering Lewis	Nonfiction, 1994
Sweetbitter: A Novel by Reginald Gibbons	Fiction, 1995
Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White by Brent Staples	Nonfiction, 1995
The Science and Politics of Racial Research by William H. Tucker	Nonfiction, 1995
All Souls' Rising by Madison Smartt Bell	Fiction, 1996
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol	Nonfiction, 1996
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid	Fiction, 1997
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride	Nonfiction, 1997
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley	Fiction, 1998
The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey by Toi Derricotte	Nonfiction, 1998
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks	Fiction, 1999
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis	Nonfiction, 1999
A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee	Fiction, 2000
Out of Place: a memoir by Edward W. Said	Nonfiction, 2000
Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F. X. Toole	Nonfiction, 2001
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century by David Levering Lewis	Nonfiction, 2001
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead	Fiction, 2002
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones by Quincy Jones	Nonfiction, 2002
Vernon Can Read! A Memoir by Vernon E. Jordan	Nonfiction, 2002
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power	Fiction, 2003
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter	Fiction, 2003
World Hotel by Reetika Vazirani	Nonfiction, 2003
Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves by Ira Berlin	Nonfiction, 2004
The Known World by Edward P. Jones	Nonfiction, 2004
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc	Nonfiction, 2004
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat	Fiction, 2005
M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A : poems by A. Van Jordan	Nonfiction, 2005
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson by Geoffrey C. Ward	Nonfiction, 2005
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan by Jill Lepore	Fiction, 2006
On Beauty by Zadie Smith	Nonfiction, 2006
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Fiction, 2007
Blue Front: Poems by Martha Collins	Nonfiction, 2007
Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend by Scott Reynolds Nelson	Nonfiction, 2007
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz	Fiction, 2008
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid	Fiction, 2008
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali	Nonfiction, 2008
The Boat by Nam Le	Fiction, 2009
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich	Fiction, 2009
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed	Nonfiction, 2009
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie	Fiction, 2010
The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia by Mary Helen Stefaniak	Fiction, 2011
Great House by Nicole Krauss	Fiction, 2011
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by David Eltis	Nonfiction, 2011
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson	Nonfiction, 2011
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan	Fiction, 2012
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era by David W. Blight	Nonfiction, 2012
Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave and Exterminate Others by David Livingstone Smith	Nonfiction, 2012
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon	[2013] ∙ Nonfiction ∙ 2013
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers	[2013] ∙ Fiction ∙ 2013
Kind One by Laird Hunt	Fiction, 2013
My favorite warlord by Eugene Gloria	Fiction, 2013
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra	Fiction, 2014
The Big Smoke (Penguin Poets) by Adrian Matejka	Fiction, 2014
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit	Nonfiction, 2014
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James	Fiction, 2015
A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia by Richard S. Dunn	Nonfiction, 2015
Hard Love Province: Poems by Marilyn Chin	Poetry, 2015
The New Testament by Jericho Brown	Poetry, 2015
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman	Nonfiction, 2016
Heaven: Poems by Rowan Ricardo Phillips	Poetry, 2016
The Jazz Palace: A Novel by Mary Morris	Fiction, 2016
What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing by Brian Seibert	Nonfiction, 2016
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan	Fiction, 2017
The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies	Fiction, 2017
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly	Non-Fiction, 2017
Olio by Tyehimba Jess	Poetry, 2017
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young	Nonfiction, 2018
In the Language of My Captor by Shane McCrae	Poetry, 2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward	Fiction, 2018
There There by Tommy Orange	Fiction, 2019
Wade in the Water: Poems by Tracy K. Smith	Poetry, 2019
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War by Andrew Delbanco	Nonfiction, 2019
Deaf Republic: Poems by Ilya Kaminsky	Poetry, 2020
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King	Nonfiction, 2020
The Old Drift: A Novel by Namwali Serpell	Fiction, 2020
Deacon King Kong by James McBride	Fiction, 2021
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey	Nonfiction, 2021
Obit by Victoria Chang	Poetry, 2021
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown	Nonfiction, 2021
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles	Nonfiction, 2022
Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia by George Makari	Nonfiction, 2022
The Renunciations: Poems by Donika Kelly	Poetry, 2022
The Trees by Percival Everett	Fiction, 2022
Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones	Poetry, 2023
The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang	Fiction, 2023
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont	Nonfiction, 2023
Horse by Geraldine Brooks	Fiction, 2023

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