Not a canon — just a list.
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau
Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin
Union Station by Zadie Smith
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
Suite as Sugar by Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar
Dominoes at the Crossroads by Kaie Kellough
Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith
Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas by Gloria Blizzard
Some Notes on Black People in Canada
In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas
Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming by Antonio Michael Downing
My Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and the Battles That Made Us by Morgan Campbell
Black Boys Like Me: Confrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging by Matthew R. Morris