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New Releases Tagged "African American"

The Great Wherever
Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy, #3)
Die for Me
Ember: A Mafia Romance (The Hunted Kingdom, 2)
The Missed Connection
The Summer Girlfriend (Heart Beach, #1)
The Revelation of Dionne Daphne
There's Only One Sin in Hollywood
Our Sister's Keeper
Transcendent: A Memoir
Decoding the Devil: Black Women Codebreakers and the Secret War Against Stalin's Bomb
Kin
James
Judge Stone
Keeper of Lost Children
Razorblade Tears
Where the Wildflowers Grow
The Personal Librarian
The Missed Connection
All the Sinners Bleed
Finding Me
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
King of Ashes
Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy, #3)
Horse
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
The Skin I'm In by Sharon G. FlakeCopper Sun by Sharon M. DraperThe Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul CurtisNovember Blues by Sharon M. DraperTears of a Tiger by Sharon M. Draper
African American Books for Teens
318 books — 357 voters
The Gilded Ones by Namina FornaThe Kindest Lie by Nancy    JohnsonWings of Ebony by J. ElleConcrete Rose by Angie ThomasAce of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
2021 Books by Black authors
144 books — 149 voters

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieMore Happy Than Not by Adam SilveraThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasEverything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
MG/YA/NA #ownvoices
485 books — 442 voters
32 Candles by Ernessa T. CarterThe Coldest Winter Ever by Sister SouljahTryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made by Virginia DeBerryFlyy Girl by Omar TyreeThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Best Black/African American Chicklit
436 books — 405 voters

The Color Purple
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Beloved
The Bluest Eye
Between the World and Me
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Kindred
The Underground Railroad
Invisible Man
The Hate U Give
Song of Solomon
The Help
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Vanishing Half
Sula

Jonathan Anthony Burkett
I understand we all have our differences. But while learning about history I've read about white people coming together, Jews coming together, Spanish coming together, different cultures and religions understanding and coming together despite their differences. Slavery was never something that shocked me. What shocks me is how black people have not yet overcome the odds and we're such strong smart people. Why we can't just stand together? ...more
Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Ralph Ellison
For history records the patterns of men's lives, they say: Who slept with whom and with what results; who fought and who won and who lived to lie about it afterwards. All things, it is said, are duly recorded--all things of importance, that is. But not quite, for actually it is only the known, the seen, the heard and only those events that the recorder regards as important that are put down, those lies his keepers keep their power by. But the cop would be Clifton's historian, his judge, his witn ...more
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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