Book recommendations from ya girl

Y'all bear with me! It'll focus after the first book lol
it also cut but honorable mentions that I don't have physically:
The Symposium x Plato
Their eyes were watching God x Zora Neale Hurtson
Salvage the Bones x Jesmyn Ward

Books listed:

1. A lesson before dying x Ernest J Gains
2. Kindred x Octavia E. Butler
3.The coldest winter ever x Sista Souljah
4. Eloquent Rage x Brittney Cooper
5. Dontell who kissed the sea x Nathan Alan Davis
6. Listen Up x edits by Zoe Anglesey
7. Jazz x Toni Morrison
8. Still can't do my daughters hair x William Evans
9. How Europe underdeveloped Africa x. Walter Rodney
10. Don't take your life personally x Ajahn Sumedho