The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassDreams from My Father by Barack ObamaBlack Boy by Richard Wright
African American Lives
458 books — 207 voters
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonMaritcha by Tonya BoldenMy Soul Looks Back by Jessica B. HarrisSecret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City by Don PapsonPoems of the Harlem Renaissance by Langston Hughes
Black New York City (nonfiction)
46 books — 5 voters

The Stranger by Albert Camus1984 by George OrwellSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Philosophical Literature
1,167 books — 2,725 voters