Black Literature

Literature written by African Americans.

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New Releases Tagged "Black Literature"

The Revelation of Dionne Daphne
Rabbit, Fox, Tar
The Revelation of Dionne Daphne
Dominion
If I Ruled the World
Small Worlds
How It Ends
In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black, #1)
Great Black Hope
Gray Dawn (Easy Rawlins, #17)
The Tiny Things Are Heavier
Zeal
Skin & Bones
Isaac's Song
Nightbloom
Bones at the Crossroads (Blood at the Root, #2)
The Devil Three Times
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Color Purple
The Bluest Eye
Beloved
Kindred
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Invisible Man
The Underground Railroad
Between the World and Me
Giovanni’s Room
The Vanishing Half
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
Native Son
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Homegoing
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSo Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
African Fiction
605 books — 434 voters

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassRoots by Alex HaleyNoughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman12 Years a Slave by Solomon NorthupThe Collected Poems by Langston Hughes
The Great Black Read
44 books — 11 voters

Clover by Dori SanderssThe Queen's Envoy by Lord David ProsserHis Dark Enchantress by Victoria ChathamSpeak Gigantular by Irenosen OkojieThe Mothers by Brit Bennett
Call Number Curated Book Selections
57 books — 3 voters
Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts by Juda BennettFiction And Folklore by Trudier HarrisJames Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male... by Aaron Ngozi OforleaBridging the Americas by Stelamaris CoserMagical Realism in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Ana Castillo's... by Jasmina Murad
Examinations of Black Literature
6 books — 1 voter


Gwendolyn Brooks
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha

Shout out to all the Black writers who push the world forward by sharing the stories, lives, history, imaginations and magic of black culture. We need you.
Blitberry

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