Source: Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books by Max Rodriquez

Africa Must Unite by Kwame Nkrumah

Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks

Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines

Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennett, Jr.

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Black Theology of Liberation by James Cone

Black Betty by Walter Mosley

Black Bourgeoisie by E. Franklin Frazier

Black Boy by Richard Wright

Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James

Blacker the Berry… by Wallace Thurman

Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman by Michele Wallace

Black Metropolis by St. Clair Drake, Horace R. Clayton, William Julius Wilson, and Richard Wright

Black Power by Charles V. Hamilton, Kwayme Ture, Stokley Carmichael, and Charles Hamilton

Black Reconstrution in America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois

Black Skin, White Masks by Frants Fanon and Constance Farrington

Blues People by Leroi Jones

Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman

Cane by Jean Toomer

The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley

Clotel by William Wells Brown

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

David Walker’s Appeal by David Walker

Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams

Elbow Room by James Alan Mcpherson

Faith And The Good Thing by Charles Johnson

The Famished Road by Ben Okri

Fences by August Wilson and Lloyd Richards

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin

God’s Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousmane

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Guide My Feet by Marian Wright Eldeman

A Hard Road To Glory by Arthur Ashe

The Hero And the Blues by Albert Murray

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

The Interesting Narrative in the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano

If He Hollars Let Him Go by Chester Himes and Graham Hodges

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman

Kehinde by Buchi Emecheta

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

Letter from the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.

The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I by Arnold Rampersad

The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II by Arnold Rampersad

The Lyrics of Lowly Life by Paul Lawrence Dunbar

The Man Who Cried I Am by John A. Williams

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks

Miles by Miles Davis

The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

My Soul Is A Witness by Gloria Wade-Gayles

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Native Son by Richard Wright

The New Negro by Alain Locke

Notes of a Hanging Judge by Stanley Crouch

Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson

The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey by Marcus and Amy Jacques Garvey

Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall

Race Matters by Cornel West

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Roots by Alex Haley

Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Riboud

Seize the Time by Bobby Seale

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Sojourner Truth by Nell Irvin Painter

Soledad Brother by George Jackson

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

Spirits of the Passage by Rosemarie Robotham

Spook Who Sat by the Door by Sam Green

Stolen Legacy by George G.M. James

The Street by Ann Petry

The Substance of Things Hoped for by Samuel D. Proctor

Tapping the Power Within by Iyanla Vanzant

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington

W.E.B. Du Bois by David Levering Lewis

Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan

The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes

The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

The Wretched of Earth by Frants Fanon

Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell