The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois is a collection of essays on race. Du Bois uses his own experiences as an African American along with other sources to put together a groundbreaking book.
Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Homer, Mary Shelley, Alexandre Dumas, Bram Stoke, Emily Bronte, Jules Verne, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H.G. Wells, Louisa May Alcott, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Melville, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Jack London, Charlotte Brontë, Agatha Christie, Hermann Hesse, Robert Louis Stevenson, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, J. R. R. Tolkien, W. E. B. Du Bois, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ernest Hemingway, L. Frank Baum, Evgenii Zamiatin, E. Nesbit, Rudyard Kipling, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Oscar Wilde, J. M. Barrie, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Theodore Dreiser & A. A. Milne
Frederick Douglass, Nella Larsen, Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Jean Toomer, Frances E. W. Harper, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Harriet Jacobs & William Still
William Wells Brown, Harriet E. Wilson, Nella Larsen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frances E. W. Harper, Langston Hughes, Phillis Wheatley, Solomon Northup, Frederick Douglass, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, Charles Ball, Josiah Henson, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Elizabeth Keckley, Louis Hughes, Booker T. Washington, Henry Box Brown, James Hambleton Christian, Theophilus Collins, Seth Concklin, Charles Gilbert, Samuel Green, Jamie Griffin, Harry Grimes, John Henry Hill, Jane Johnson, Matilda Mahoney, Mary Frances Melvin, Aunt Hannah Moore, Alfred S. Thornton & W. E. B. Du Bois