Black Literature

Literature written by African Americans.

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New Releases Tagged "Black Literature"

The Seven Daughters of Dupree
Burn Down Master's House
Burn Down Master's House
Dominion
The Seven Daughters of Dupree
People Like Us
How It Ends
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
Zeal
Where the Wildflowers Grow
Great Black Hope
People of Means
In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black, #1)
The Devil Three Times
Kin
Small Worlds
Skin & Bones
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Color Purple
The Bluest Eye
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Kindred
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Invisible Man
The Vanishing Half
The Underground Railroad
Between the World and Me
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Homegoing
Giovanni’s Room
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
Native Son
Clover by Dori SandersBlood on Their Hands by Bob BrinkSpeak Gigantular by Irenosen OkojieThe Mothers by Brit BennettPiecing Me Together by Renée  Watson
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56 books — 2 voters
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
600 books — 428 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
The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa LahiriThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriCutting for Stone by Abraham   Verghese
Immigrant Voices (fiction)
374 books — 250 voters


your novels. the classic novels of a minutia. i have no interest in. pale. in comparison to the novels of my world. the novel of my mother. the novels of my grandparents. the articulate novels of how my people walk down a street. the novels i have been reading my whole life. — classic
Nayyirah Waheed, Nejma

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

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