Last night Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author of the current bestseller Between the World and Me and National Correspondent for The Atlantic, was at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as part of our public program series, Between the Lines. Mr. Coates was brilliantly interviewed by New York Times Magazine and ProPublica reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones. Throughout the conversation, there was talk about books.

If you want to watch the program, it's available at Livestream.com.

The following are all the books recommended by Ta-Nehisi Coates (and one video) during his mesmerising talk at the Schomburg Center (in the order as they were mentioned). As Mr. Coates said, "folks who are not familiar with black literature, read this book and read a ton of other books."

The Fire Next Time in Collected Essays by James Baldwin.

Published in 1963, it contains two essays: "My Dungeon Shook — Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation," and "Down At The Cross — Letter from a Region of My Mind."

The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life, His Own by David Carr.

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist.

Image from another book, The Negro in Chicago; a study of race relations and a race riot in 1919. Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 by Arnold R. Hirsch.

Ta-Nehisi Coates also spent a great deal of time describing and recommending the video of the 1965 historic debate between James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley Jr. at Cambridge University on the question: "Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?" Ta-Nehisi Coates also spent a great deal of time describing and recommending the video of the 1965 historic debate between James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley Jr. at Cambridge University on the question: "Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?" Watch the video from Mr. Coates's blog post

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