Look for Me and I'll Be Gone: Stories

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Philadelphia Fire: A Novel

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Writing to Save a Life

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1971–2025

Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories, 1981-2018

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The Homewood Trilogy

Between the World and Me

Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir

Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

The Pursuit of Happyness: The Life Story That Inspired the Major Motion Picture

Don't Settle for Safe: Embracing the Uncomfortable to Become Unstoppable

Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South

Cry Like a Man: Fighting for Freedom from Emotional Incarceration

The Mis-Education of the Negro