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
March by John             LewisMarch by John             LewisThe Harlem Hellfighters by Max BrooksIncognegro by Mat JohnsonThe Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long
African American Graphic Novels
144 books — 32 voters
Nightbloom by Peace Adzo MedieA spell of good things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀Hangman by Maya BinyamMaame by Jessica GeorgeRiver Spirit by Leila Aboulela
100 Notable African Books of 2023
101 books — 7 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
Bitch Planet, Vol. 1 by Kelly Sue DeConnickThe Girl Who Married a Skull by Kel McDonaldGoldie Vance Vol. 1 by Hope LarsonParable of the Sower by Damian DuffyUpgrade Soul by Ezra Claytan Daniels
Humble Book Bundle: Be the Change
82 books — 4 voters

Never My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiNever My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Voices (fiction)
386 books — 311 voters


Octavia E. Butler
He moved uncomfortably. "Reading's too much trouble. Mr. Jennings said I was too stupid to learn anyway." "Who's Mr. Jennings?" "He's the schoolmaster." "Is he?" I shook my head in disgust. "He shouldn't be. Listen, do you think you're stupid?" "No." A small hesitant no. "But I read as good as Daddy does already. Why should I have to do more than that?" "You don't have to. You can stay just the way you are. Of course, that would give Mr. Jennings the satisfaction of thinking he was right about y ...more
Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

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

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