Memoir/narrative nonfiction
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Clayborne Carson | Warner Books | 2001
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates | One World | 2015
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass | originally published 1845
Pictured version published by Warbler Press | 2022
My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass | Originally published 1846
Pictured version published by Penguin Classics | 2003
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alex Haley | originally published 1965
Pictured version published by One World | 1992
The Sun Does Shine
How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice
Anthony Ray Hinton | St. Martin’s Griffin | 2019
The Other Side of the River
A True Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma
Alex Kotlowitz | Anchor | 1999
Holler if You Hear Me
The Education of a Teacher and His Students 2nd Edition
Gregory Michie | Teacher’s College Press | 2009
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup | originally published 1853
Pictured version published by Penguin Classics | 2012
His Name Is George Floyd
One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa | Penguin Books | 2024
Just Like Us
The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America
Helen Thorpe | Scribner | 2011
Up From Slavery
Booker T. Washington | originally published 1901
Pictured version published by Dover Publications | 1995