African American


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 Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Darkest Child by Delores Phillips
Contemporary Black Women's Literature
575 books — 261 voters
Go Fetch! by Shelly LaurenstonBeast by Pepper PaceThe Grunt 1 by Latrivia S. NelsonBeast Behaving Badly by Shelly LaurenstonDaddy's Game by Normandie Alleman
African American Lead: Romance
414 books — 151 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

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassDreams from My Father by Barack ObamaBlack Boy by Richard Wright
African American Memoirs
470 books — 218 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBorn To Rise by Lorna  Blake
Best African American Books
1,077 books — 1,353 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

Words are power. The more words you know and can recognize, use, define, understand, the more power you will have as a human being... The more language you know, the more likely it is that no one can get over on you." selection from book: Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy & Social Justice in Classroom & Community ...more
Quraysh Ali Lansana & Georgia A. Popoff

Richard Wright
I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.
Richard Wright, Black Boy

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