Nonfiction > Teen/Young Adult > Autobiography/Memoir

Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 
Melba Pattillo Beals
I Will Not Fear: My Story of a Lifetime of Building Faith under Fire
Michael Bennett
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable (Adapted for Young Adults)
Arna Bontemps
The Harlem Renaissance Remembered
Veronica Chambers
Mama’s Girl
Shirley Chisholm
Unbought and Unbossed
Misty Copeland
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina Young Readers Edition
Michaela DePrince
Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Dancer
Ger Duany w/Garen Thomas
Walk Toward the Rising Sun: From Child Soldier to Peace Activist Brown
Christine King Farris
Through It All: Reflections on My Life, My Family, and My Faith
Tom Feelings
Black Pilgrimage
Kamala Harris
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey (Young Readers Edition)
James Haskins
Hamp: An Autobiography
Akilah Hughes
Obviously: Stories from My Timeline
Mae Jemison
Find Where The Wind Goes: Moments From My Life
George M. Johnson
All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
June Jordan
Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood 
Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha badele
When They Call You a Terrorist (YA Ed.): A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World  
Julius Lester
On Writing for Children & Other People
John Lewis
March: Book Three
March: Book Two
March: Book One
Lynda Blackmon Lowery
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March
Ibtihaj Muhammad
Proud: Living My American Dream
Walter Dean Myers
Bad Boy: A Memoir
Marilyn Nelson
How I Discovered Poetry 
Trevor Noah
It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers)
Leslie Odom. Jr
Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
Kwame Onwuachi
Notes from a Young Black Chef (Adapted for Young Adults)
Aaron Philip
This Kid Can Fly: It’s About Ability (NOT Disability) 
Sidney Poitier
This Life
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Porch Stories: A Grandmother’s Guide to Happiness
Dorothy Marie Rice
The Seventeenth Child
Faith Ringgold
We Flew Over the Bridge: Memoirs of Faith Ringgold
Glenn (“Doc”) Rivers
Those Who Love the Game: Glenn “Doc” Rivers on Life in the NBA and Elsewhere
Jackie Robinson
I Never Had it Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson
Marcus Samuelsson
Make It Messy: My Perfectly Imperfect Life  
Ilyasah Shabazz
Growing Up X
Natasha Tarpley
Girl in the Mirror: Three Generations of Black Women in Motion
Clifton Taulbert
The Journey Home: A Father’s Gift to His Son 
When Little Became Much: A Journey from Obscurity to Significance
The Invitation
Watching Our Crops Come In  
The Last Train North
Once Upon a Time… When We Were Colored
Leon Walter Tillage
Leon’s Story
Sandra Uwiringiyimana
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child