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)
Thugs and the Women Who Love Them (Thug #1)
Dopefiend
Hood Rat (Hood Rat #1)
Monster
Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp
The Prada Plan (The Prada Plan, #1)
Payback Is a Mutha (Payback #1)
The Cartel 2: Tale of the Murda Mamas (The Cartel, #2)
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
Best New Urban Fiction Authors
60 books — 60 voters
Blind Corners by Jemir Robert JohnsonMentality by CeetThe Whore and The Virgin by CeetA Dog's Day by CeetSouthside Kings Book 3 by Derek   Chatman
2013 Best Street Lit
15 books — 16 voters

Coconut Water and Rum by Vivienna KhaanSweet Like Sugar Cane by Leah T. WilliamsSummertime with a Kingpin by LakiaIt's the Coconut Oil by Vivienna KhaanRai & Zenova by Mila S.J
It's the book Baes for me!
13 books — 2 voters
Bankroll Squad by David WeaverThe Lipstick Clique 2 by David Weaver
#TBRS Urban Fiction Classics
2 books — 1 voter

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

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 the time. And also, I want to make clear that my reason for starting these notes at a point of personal anguish and suffering is that these experiences marked the end of a corrupt pimp life and were the prelude to a still mauled, but constructive new life. ...more ”
― Iceberg Slim, The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim

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In this bookclub, we will read from urban authors. Old and new titles.
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Ask Author Carlos Salinas (Author of Got the Flow: The Hip-Hop Diary of a Young Rapper) Hello! I am hosting this group for the launch of my new Young Adult Urban Fiction Novel Got the …more
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Urban Fiction Lendable Kindle Ebooks Post your books that you want to borrow lend out. Also come and discuss books you have read or w…more
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Ask me anything you like about any of the books I’ve written. No questions are off limits!!
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