TCS Recommended Books for Young African American and Latino Men
For Everyone by Jason Reynolds
Letters to a Young Brotha by Hill Harper
Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud by Cornel West
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones by Quincy Jones
The Measure of Man by Sidney Poitier
The Color of Water by James Mc Bride
Black Panther: The Young Prince Ronald L. Smith
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D Vance
Night by Elie Wiesel
Race Matters by Cornel West
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Invisible Man-Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education by Mychal Denzel Smith
Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America by D. Watkins
Air by Ryan Gattis
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, 2nd Edition edited by Joyce Carol Oates
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales by Ray Bradbury
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts by Heather Masri
Careers: The Graphic Guide to Finding the Perfect Job for You by DK
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez
Holler If You Hear Me (2006) by Michael Eric Dyson
Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times by Luis Rodriguez
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black Directors in Hollywood by Melvin Donalson
Muy Macho by Ray Gonzalez
How to Be Black by Baratunde Thurston
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
The Envy of the World: On Being a Black Man in America by Ellis Cose
Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir by John Edgar Wideman
The Republic of East LA: Stories by Luis J. Rodriguez
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley
Fences by August Wilson
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture by Bakari Kitwana
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
American Paradox: Young Black Men by Renford Reese
Hope on a Tightrope by Cornel West
The Tattooed Soldier: A Novel by Héctor Tobar
The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream by Sampson Davis
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines