The Beautiful Struggle

Ta-Nehisi Coates' debut is an infectious, reflective memoir - a lyrical saga of surviving the crack-stricken streets of Baltimore in the '80s. Son of Vietnam vet and black awareness advocate Paul Coates - a poor man who set out to publish lost classics of black history - Ta-Nehisi drifts toward salvation at Howard University, while his ominous brother Big Bill finds his own rhythm hustling.

• We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
• Between the World and Me
• The Water Dancer (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
• The Fire Next Time
• The Souls of Black Folk
• Notes of a Native Son
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
• The Baddest Bitch in the Room: (Explicit Version)
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
• Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People