- To kill a mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- New boy, Tracy Chevalier
- Conjure women, a novel, Afia Atakora
- When ghosts come home, a novel, Wiley Cash
- The friendship, Mildred D. Taylor ; pictures by Max Ginsburg
- Knife edge, Malorie Blackman
- The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian, by Sherman Alexie ; art by Ellen Forney
- Small great things, a novel, Jodi Picoult
- The Guardians, John Grisham
- What's mine and yours, a novel, Naima Coster
- To kill a mockingbird, Harper Lee
- This other Eden, a novel, Paul Harding
- Roll of thunder, hear my cry, Mildred D. Taylor ; introduction by Jacqueline Woodson ; illustration by Kadir Nelson
- All the days past, all the days to come, by Mildred D. Taylor
- Maame, Jessica George
- The holdout, a novel, Graham Moore
- You don't know everything, Jilly P!, Alex Gino
- Go set a watchman, Harper Lee
- Bluebird, bluebird, a novel, Attica Locke
- The secret life of bees, Sue Monk Kidd
- I'm not dying with you tonight, Kimberly Jones, Gilly Segal
- How high the moon, Karyn Parsons
- A passage to India, by E. M. Forster
- Promise, Minrose Gwin
- Lot, stories, Bryan Washington
- The holdout, a novel, Graham Moore
- Blended, Sharon M. Draper
- Sylvia & Aki, Winifred Conkling
- Sycamore row, a novel, John Grisham
- It all comes down to this, by Karen English
- Such a fun age, a novel, Kiley Reid
- The man who lived underground, a novel, Richard Wright ; afterword by Malcolm Wright
- Storm warriors, Elisa Carbone
- The Paragon Hotel, Lyndsay Faye
- Fast break, Mike Lupica
- Feathers, Jacqueline Woodson
- The journey of little Charlie, Christopher Paul Curtis
- James, a novel, Percival Everett
- Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy, by Gary D. Schmidt
- Saving Savannah, Tonya Bolden
- The two lives of Sara, a novel, Catherine Adel West
- Rebecca, not Becky, a novel, Christine Platt and Catherine Wigginton Greene
- A shout in the ruins, a novel, Kevin Powers
- All American boys, Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely
- The talk, Alicia D. Williams ; illustrated by Briana Mukodiri Uchendu
- The hate u give, Angie Thomas
- The black kids, Christina Hammonds Reed
- Dear Martin, Nic Stone
- The wolf hunt, a novel, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen ; translated into English by Sondra Silverston
- A lesson before dying, Ernest J. Gaines