2020

• The Book of Light by Lucille Clifton
• Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel by Alice Walker
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
• The Magical Language of Others by E.J. Koh
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

2019

• An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
• This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
• What it means when a man falls from the sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
• An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
• A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir

2018

• On Immunity: An Innoculation by Eula Bliss
• The PoetX by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Starters by Lissa Price
• Kiss Number 8 by Colleen A.F. Venable, Ellen T. Crenshaw