Black Boy by Richard Wright | The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou | Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou | The Color of Water by James McBride | Life on the Color Line by Gregory Howard Williams | Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston | Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown | Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou | All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou | The Big Sea by Langston Hughes | Finding Fish by Antwone Q. Fisher | Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers | Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou | The Grace of Silence by Michele Norris | Patrimony by Philip Roth | Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou | Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke | Diaries, 1910-1923 by Franz Kafka | Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass |