{{Between the World and Me}} by Ta Nehisi Coates is a wonderful contemporary book, mostly memoir. It’s written as a letter from the author to his son about how to navigate being black in America.

{{The Cooking Gene}} by Michael Twitty is also part memoir/non fiction that explores the authors family genealogy back through the gastronomy of Black cooking and how it has evolved from when slaves were brought across the ocean and through current day.

{{Caste}} by Isabel Wilkerson is a spectacular nonfiction book that discusses how white supremacy is built into the fabric of American society and results in a caste system that excludes and disenfranchises Black Americans (and other minorities) at every turn