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2025 Nonfiction Books By Black Americans

  1. Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
  2. Black-owned by Char Adams
  3. High Functioning Overcome Your Hidden Depression and Reclaim Your Joy by Judith Joseph
  4. Go Higher Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace By Big Sean
  5. Fearless and Free A Memoir By Josephine Baker
  6. Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores by Katie Mitchell
  7. Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism by Eve L. Ewing
  8. A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects by Robell Awake
  9. The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958 by David Levering Lewis
  10. Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience: How Black Washingtonians Used Music and Sports in the Fight for Equality by Maurice Jackson
  11. Soul Food For Dummies by Charla L. Draper
  12. Sweet Potato Soul Vegan Vibes: 100 Soulful Plant-Based Recipes for Healthy Everyday Meals; A Cookbook by Jenné Claiborne
  13. Homegrown: Guidance and Inspiration for Navigating Your Homeschooling Journey Edited by Amber O’Neal Johnston
  14. Soul School: Taking Kids on a Joy-Filled Journey Through the Heart of Black American Culture by Amber O’Neal Johnston
  15. The New Negro A History in Documents, 1887-1937 by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Martha H. Patterson
  16. Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine by Jessica B. Harris
  17. Recipes from the American South by Michael W. Twitty
  18. The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters by Sasha Bonét
  19. The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic by Lindsey Stewart
  20. Fearless and Free: A Memoir Book by Josephine Baker
  21. Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State By Caleb Gayle
  22. Pronoun Trouble by John McWhorter
  23. American Soul: The Black History of Food in the United States by Anela Malik and Renae Wilson
  24. Our South by Ashleigh Shanti
  25. Cooking Up Change: Grandma’s Recipes from a Year in Black History by Michael Platt
  26. We the Pizza: Slangin’ Pies and Savin’ Lives by Muhammad Abdul-Hadi
  27. A Domestic Cookbook: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen by Malinda Russell (republished in 2025)
  28. Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy by Tre Johnson
  29. Three Or More is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012–2025 by Jelani Cobb
  30. Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975–2025 by John Edgar Wideman
  31. Mounted: On Horses, Blackness and Liberation by Bitter Kalli
  32. The End of Respectability: Notes of a Black American Reckoning with His Life and His Nation by Anthony Walton
  33. The Black Pack: Comedy, Race, and Resistance by Artel Great
  34. That’s How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor edited by Damon Young
  35. The Man of Many Fathers: Life Lessons Disguised as a Memoir by Roy Wood Jr.
  36. In My Remaining Years by Jean Grae
  37. Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore by Cici Adams
  38. Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema by Odie Henderson
  39. Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry
  40. Jazz Radio America by Aaron J. Johnson
  41. Welcome 2 Houston: Hip Hop Heritage in Hustle Town by Langston Collin Wilkins
  42. Mothership Connected: The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic by Seth Neblett