- Maya Angelou–I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Edward Ball–The Genetic Strand
- Janet Harmon Bragg–Soaring Above Setbacks
- Bliss Broyard–One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life–A Story of Race and Family Secrets
- Carlos Eire–Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
- bell hooks–Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
- Zora Neale Hurston–Dust Tracks On a Road
- Sabine Kuegler–Child of the Jungle: The True Story of a Girl Caught Between Two Worlds
- James McBride–The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
- Barack Obama–Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
- Shelley Stewart and Nathan Hale Turner–The Road South: A Memoir
- Lori L. Tharps–Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love, and Spain
- Rebecca Walker–Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
- Thomas L. Webber–Flying Over 96th Street: Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy









