Street Lit

Urban fiction, also known as Street lit, is a literary genre set, as the name implies, in a city landscape. Urban fiction was is a genre written mostly by African Americans. In his famous essay “The Souls of Black Folk,” W. E. B. Du Bois discussed how a veil separated the African American community from the outside world.

The Coldest Winter Ever (The Coldest Winter Ever, #1)
True to the Game (True to the Game #1)
The Cartel (The Cartel, #1)
The Cartel 3: The Last Chapter (The Cartel, #3)
Flyy Girl (Flyy Girl, #1)
Animal (Animal, #1)
The Cartel 2: Tale of the Murda Mamas (The Cartel, #2)
Thugs and the Women Who Love Them (Thug #1)
Monster
Ethic
Rowan and Dominic (Changing The Game For You, #1)
Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp
The Prada Plan (The Prada Plan, #1)
Payback Is a Mutha (Payback #1)
The First Part Last (Heaven, #2)
A Butler Christmas by Rahiem BrooksOne Day You Will by Kristofer ClarkeProject Terror by Jamal LewisThe Take by L.   BrownDaisy Jones by Mack Mama
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#TBRS Urban Fiction Classics
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DCPL's Teen Urban Drama Booklist
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Donald Goines
What you do, boy, is get the money and get as far away from here as you can. Don't even stay for your brother's funeral. It might end up being yours also. So start running and maybe one day you and me both will be thankful for what's happening. I don't know. I know your mother deserves more than a double funeral. When your mother talks to you, I hope you will keep this between us. It won't matters if she knows I'm the one who made Jimmy pay for his ugliness. ...more
Donald Goines, Daddy Cool: A Father Out to Revenge His Daughter's Shame

Iceberg Slim
I want to say at the outset that I have become ill, insane, as an inmate of the torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy. But I am not as ill as I was, and I am getting better all time. ...more
Iceberg Slim

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