collections—

• 100 love sonnets ★ pablo neruda
• black feeling, black talk ★ nikki giovanni
• crush ★ richard siken
• for colored girls ★ ntozake shange
• haruko/love poems ★ june jordan
• her blue body ★ warsan shire
• leaves of grass ★ walt whitman
• rapture ★ carol ann duffy
• shake loose my skin ★ sonia sanchez
• the apple trees at olema ★ robert hass

standalone—

• blizzard ★ yasmin belkhyr
• journal of a homecoming ★ aimé césaire
• memory ★ evelyn graham frost
• the negro speaks of rivers ★ langston hughes
• we real cool ★ gwendolyn brooks

a - e—

• adèle ★ leïla silimani
• annie john ★ jamaica kincaid
• aristotle & dante ★ benjamin alire sáenz
• the atlas of reds & blues ★ devi laskar
• banana heart summer ★ merlinda bobis
• beloved ★ toni morrison
• beneath the lion's gaze ★ maaza mengiste
• the bluest eye ★ toni morrison
• the bride test ★ helen hoang
• cantoras ★ carolina de robertis
• the care & feeding of ravenously hungry girls ★ anissa gray
• the color purple ★ alice walker
• the count of monte cristo ★ alexander dumas
• dealing in dreams ★ lilliam rivera
• a drowned maiden's hair ★ laura amy schlitz

f - j—

• fairytales for lost children ★ diriye osman
• fingersmith ★ sarah waters

anthologies—

• cane ★ jean toomer
• forward ★ megan giddings
• home remedies ★ xuan juliana wang
• queer heroes ★ arabelle sicardi

essays—

• i'm telling the truth, but i'm lying ★ bassey ikpi
• shapes of native nonfiction ★ elissa washuta & theresa warburton
• slouching towards bethlehem ★ joan didion
• the collected schizophrenias ★ esmé eeijun wang
• the pretty one ★ keah brown
• the prophet ★ khalil gibran

graphic novels—

• a + e 4ever ★ ilike merey
• american born chinese ★ gene luen yang
• bingo love ★ tee franklin
• clumsy ★ jeffrey brown
• fetch: how a bad dog brought me home ★ nicole j. georges
• forward ★ lisa maas