This is a scientific tale about the late Henrietta Lacks, a black woman who lives an immortal existence due to cell research with her cancerous cells. This tall tale is full of interesting scientific fragments filled with alarming findings, including bits about race, history, and sociology. Ms. Lack's cancerous cells were magnified and disseminated throughout the world making the possibilities for a new order of research and advancing medical treatments.

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin is a an angry and sometimes brutal love story set in the Bronx, New York. A bleak tragedy about incarceration, endurance, and anti-Blackness, If Beale Street Could Talk gives voice to the despair of a young couple living in Harlem during the seventies. 

The Water Dancer, follows the life of the extraordinary, young enslaved man named Hiram Walker the Black son of Howell Walker, a plantation owner in Virginia. Hiram has another gift; this is where the author introduces an element of magical realism. Hiram will be trying to learn how to bring his gift forward and how to utilize it. Coates explores the psychology of enslavement with thoughtful and detailed nuance.

This is a memoir about slavery told through historical fiction and facts. The main character, a Black woman, Dana time travels to antebellum Maryland. A series of events happen through time travel. She miraculously saves a white boy from drowning and then returns to her present-day life. Dana must keep the young boy, Rufus alive to secure her family’s future after she learns her connection with him.

Homegoing is a multi-generational saga that follows the descendants of two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, across three centuries, beginning in eighteenth-century Ghana and arriving at the present day. As we meet each new descendent, we see how the legacy of slavery plays out across history, both for the enslaved and for those complicit in the slave trade.

 A Brief History of Seven Killings is an undeniable masterpiece. This book displays the genius of storytelling. A story that tells much about Jamaica's politics and ghetto gangs and their motivations. The starting point is the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in Kingston in 1976 - but the scope of the story is much wider.