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2017 Nonfiction Books by Black Americans

  1. Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women by Susan Burton
  2. No More Excuses: Be the Man God Made You to Be by Tony Evans
  3. I Am Number 8: Overlooked and Undervalued, but Not Forgotten by God by John W. Gray III
  4. The 3D Body Revolution: The Ultimate Workout + Nutrition Blueprint to Get Healthy and Lean by Donald Driver
  5. Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives by Darcy Eveleigh
  6. The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Toni Morrison
  7. African-American Inventions That Changed The World: Influential Inventors and Their Revolutionary Creations by Michael A. Carson
  8. They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
  9. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  10. Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump in the White House by Donna Brazile
  11. Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers: A Kidney Doctor’s Search for the Perfect Match by Vanessa Grubbs
  12. The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
  13. Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn by Frederick Douglass
  14. Exponential Living: Stop Spending 100% of Your Time on 10% of Who You Are by Sheri Riley
  15. South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s by Kellie Jones
  16. Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination by Herb Boyd
  17. My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King
  18. When Ivory Towers Were Black: A Story about Race in America’s Cities and Universities by Sharon Egretta Sutton
  19. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Hollis Robbins (editor)
  20. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
  21. The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own by Veronica Chambers
  22. The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty
  23. Princess Pamela’s Soul Food Cookbook: A Mouth-Watering Treasury of Afro-American Recipes by Pamela Strobel
  24. The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir by Jenifer Lewis
  25. The Most Defining Moments in Black History According to Dick Gregory by Dick Gregory
  26. Chasing Space: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances by Leland Melvin
  27. Making Rent in Bed Stuy by Brandon Harris
  28. The Annotated African American Folktales by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)
  29. This Child of Faith: Raising a Spiritual Child in a Secular World by Sophfronia Scott
  30. Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young
  31. Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney Cooper
  32. Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 by Rana A. Hogarth
  33. Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth. by Beverly Bond (Editor)
  34. The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles
  35. The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam by Ula Yvette Taylor
  36. My Soul Looks Back by Jessica B. Harris
  37. Own Your Glow: A Soulful Guide to Luminous Living and Crowning the Queen Within by Latham Thomas
  38. Soar: A Memoir by Gail Campbell Woolley
  39. Hacking ISIS: How to Destroy the Cyber Jihad by Malcolm W. Nance
  40. Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat by Patricia Williams
  41. Southern Food and Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution by Frederick Douglass Opie
  42. Plain Theology for Plain People by Charles Octavius Boothe
  43. Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing by Michele Elizabeth Lee
  44. The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding by Kimberly Seals Allers
  45. The New Dad’s Playbook: Gearing Up for the Biggest Game of Your Life by Benjamin Watson
  46. Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power by Mark Godfrey (Editor)
  47. Strong in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Addiction and Redemption Through Wellness by Quentin Vennie
  48. Let’s Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out!: Games, Songs, and Stories from an African American Childhood by Patricia C. McKissack
  49. She Is Yours: Trusting God As You Raise the Girl He Gave You by Jonathan Pitts
  50. James ‘Son Ford’ Thomas: The Devil and His Blues by David Serlin
  51. Madison Park: A Place of Hope by Eric L. Motley
  52. Whoa, Baby! A Guide for New Moms Who Feel Overwhelmed and Freaked Out (and Wonder What the #*$& Just Happened) by Kelly Rowland
  53. Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Sybrina Fulton