Some great books (as in possibly-life-changing)
(also pretty much my English reading list - what can I say, my teacher's amazing)

(novels)
The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay (and its sequel, Tandia)
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward
The Mothers - Brit Bennet
Sour Heart - Jenny Zhang
Things We Lost in the FIre - Mariana Enriquez
Fever Dream - Samanta Schweblin
New Boy - Tracy Chevalier
Sonny's Blues - James Baldwin

(poetry)
Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong
Counting Descent - Clint Smith
Life on Mars - Tracy K. Smith
Electric Arches - Eve L. Ewing

(nonfiction)
Ghettoside - Jill Leovy
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions - Valeria Luiselli
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education - Mychal Denzel Smith
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates