Michelle Obama’s best-selling memoir Becoming is the No. 1 most popular book by a black author or about black history borrowed from local libraries over the past year, according to the D.C. Public Library, which released its annual ranking of such books on Thursday, coinciding with Black History Month.

District residents have borrowed more than 50,000 such titles since February 2019, DCPL says in a release (Becoming was also the second most-read nonfiction book among all DCPL titles last year). Also on DCPL’s list are An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, Washington Black by Esi Edugyan, and The Hate U Give, a poignant young-adult novel by Angie Thomas.

Toni Morrison’s classic The Bluest Eye climbed into the top fiction list, perhaps spurred by the literary titan’s death last year. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ debut novel The Water Dancer made the fiction list at No. 9, while his 2015 memoir Between the World and Me took the No. 2 spot on the nonfiction list.

DCPL hosts a number of lectures, film screenings, and author talks during Black History Month. This year, these events are focused on the theme “African Americans and the vote,” to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Fifteenth Amendment, which granted black men the right to vote.

Here’s the full list of top titles by black authors and books about black history, from DCPL:

Top Titles Overall

1. “Becoming” by Michelle Obama
2. “An American Marriage” by Tavari Jones
3. “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas
4. “Washington Black” by Esi Edugyan
5. “Heads of the Colored People” by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
6. “Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi
7. “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead
8. “Sing, Unburied, Sing” by Jesmyn Ward
9. “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
10. “Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital” by Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove

Top Fiction Titles

1. “An American Marriage” by Tavari Jones
2. “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas
3. “Washington Black”  by Esi Edugyan
4. “Heads of the Colored People” by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
5. “Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi
6. “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead
7. “Sing, Unburied, Sing” by Jesmyn Ward
8. “On the Come Up” by Angie Thomas
9. “The Water Dancer” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
10. “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison

Top Nonfiction Titles

1. “Becoming” by Michelle Obama
2. “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
3. “Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital” by Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove
4. “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” by David W. Blight
5. “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” by Isabel Wilkerson
6. “Heavy” by Kiese Laymon
7. “How to be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi
8. “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America” by Richard Rothstein
9. “Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide” by Tony Horwitz
10. “Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo'” by Zora Neale Hurston