Black Caucus of the ALA Awards - Non-fiction
1. 
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 4.43 avg rating — 9,667 ratings
4. 
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience (5 Volume Set) 4.51 avg rating — 61 ratings
6. 
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 4.13 avg rating — 559 ratings
8. 
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
by:
Barbara Ransby
4.33 avg rating — 1,658 ratings 9. 
America Is Me : 170 Fresh Questions and Answers on Black American History
by:
Kennell Jackson
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 10. 
11. 
The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship to 1865 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
14. 
Finding a Place Called Home: A Guide to African-American Genealogy and Historical Identity 4.59 avg rating — 39 ratings
15. 
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies 4.16 avg rating — 38 ratings
17. 
Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists 4.41 avg rating — 37 ratings
20. 
Fighting for America: Black Soldiers-the Unsung Heroes of World War II 4.11 avg rating — 36 ratings
21. 
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by:
Barack Obama
3.83 avg rating — 168,487 ratings 22. 
Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled 4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings
25. 
Conversations With God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African Americans 4.56 avg rating — 57 ratings
28. 
Spooks, Spies, & Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime, & Suspense Fiction of the 20th Century
by:
Paula L. Woods
3.86 avg rating — 51 ratings 
30. 
Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations 4.25 avg rating — 103 ratings
31. 
Gospel Choirs: Psalms Of Survival For An Alien Land Called Home
by:
Derrick A. Bell
3.63 avg rating — 35 ratings 
36. 
Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
37. 
Step into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature
by:
Kevin Powell
4.11 avg rating — 37 ratings 
40. 
Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television
by:
Donald Bogle
4.15 avg rating — 40 ratings 
43. 
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
by:
A'Lelia Bundles
3.98 avg rating — 4,497 ratings 
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Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
by:
Tananarive Due
4.26 avg rating — 141 ratings 49. 
Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
by:
Lucy Hurston
4.39 avg rating — 99 ratings 50. 
Black Titan: A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
by:
Carol Jenkins
4.33 avg rating — 252 ratings 51. 
Wrestling With the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press
by:
Melba Joyce Boyd
3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings 52. 
A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
by:
Howard W. French
3.92 avg rating — 933 ratings 53. 
Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings
54. 
Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas
by:
Michael A. Gomez
3.67 avg rating — 36 ratings 
56. 
Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits
by:
Deborah Willis
4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings 57. 
In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance
by:
Wilbert Rideau
4.11 avg rating — 585 ratings 58. 
John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism
by:
Keith Gilyard
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings 59. 
Unfinished Blues: Memories of a New Orleans Music Man (Louisiana Artists Biography Series)
by:
Harold Battiste
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings 60. 
Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas
by:
Kevin Merida
3.71 avg rating — 119 ratings 