| #2 |  Two Cities Two Cities
| 3 |
| #3 |  The Good Lord Bird
| 4.19 |
| #4 |  How It Went Down
| 4.5 |
| #5 |  Brown Girl Dreaming
| 4.27 |
| #6 |  Telegraph Avenue
| 3.82 |
| #7 |  Boy, Snow, Bird
| 3.34 |
| #8 |  The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
| 4.51 |
| #9 |  Citizen
| 4.12 |
| #10 |  Between the World and Me
| 4.58 |
| #11 |  The Underground Railroad
| 4.02 |
| #12 |  John Henry Days
| 4 |
| #13 |  The Changeling
| 3.8 |
| #14 |  White Tears
| 3.6 |
| #15 |  The Sellout
| 3.72 |
| #16 |  An American Marriage
| 4.02 |
| #17 |  Parable of the Sower
| 4.14 |
| #18 |  The New Jim Crow
| 4.56 |
| #19 |  American Spy
| 3.76 |
| #20 |  The Cross and the Lynching Tree
| 5 |
| #21 |  Song of Solomon
| 4.33 |
| #22 |  Diesel Heart Diesel Heart: An Autobiography
| 4 |
| #23 |  On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
| 4.25 |
| #24 |  Such a Fun Age
| 3.87 |
| #25 |  Hidden Figures
| 3.88 |
| #26 |  We Want to Do More Than Survive
| 4 |
| #27 |  Rhode Island Red
| 4 |
| #28 |  Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
| 5 |
| #29 |  Homegoing
| 4.51 |
| #30 |  Lone Women
| 3.79 |
| #31 |  The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
| 4.04 |
