“Dear Black Girl: Letters from Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power” by Tamara Winfrey Harris, 2021, Barrett-Koehler Publishers, 185 pages, $16.95

“Buses Are A Comin’” by Charles Person with Richard Rooker, 2021, St. Martin’s Press, 304 pages, $26.99

Be prepared to be turned every which way with this book. Be set to let "The Son of Mr. Suleman" eat up your weekend. Just be ready because missing it would be a sin.

Before you get to an introspection-level, though, "Jackpot" is so darn entertaining, filled with stories of folks who unintentionally struck it rich in ways they never expected. Reading their stories feels almost like a workbook for potential winners: Do you do this or that? Buy a plane or change careers? Build another house? Where? Who cares?

“We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy” by Natalie Baszile, 2021, Amistad, 368 pages, $29.99

“Comeback Season: My Unlikely Story of Friendship with the Greatest Living Negro League Baseball Players” by Cam Perron with Nick Chiles, foreword by Hank Aaron, 2021, Gallery Books, 272 pages, $27

“The Jigsaw Man: A Novel” by Nadine Matheson, 2021, Hanover Square Press, 496 pages, $27.99

“This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism” by Don Lemon, 2021, Little, Brown, 224 pages, $28

“The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship” by Deborah Willis, 2021, New York University Press, 256 pages, $35

“The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World” by Virginia Postrel, 2020, Basic Books, 305 pages, $30

“Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong” by Georgina Lawton, 2021, Harper Perennial, 304 pages, $17.99; and

“The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation” by Anna Malaika Tubbs, 2021, Flatiron Books, 272 pages, $28.99

“Blood Grove: An Easy Rawlins Novel” by Walter Mosley, 2021, Mulholland Books, 309 pages, $27

“The Coolest Stuff on Earth: A Closer Look at the Weird, Wild, and Wonderful” by National Geographic Kids, 2020, National Geographic, 192 pages, $19.99

“Just As I Am” by Cicely Tyson with Michelle Burford, 2021, Harper Collins, $28.99, 416 pages

“Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life and Win the 1960 Election” by Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick, 2021, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 353 pages, $28

“Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America” by Ijeoma Oluo, 2020, Seal Press, 336 pages, $28

“Kamala’s Way: An American Life” by Dan Morain, 2021, Simon & Schuster, 259 pages, $28

You can say a poem, you can rap one or you can read one so why not read a few in these great poetry books.