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)
Thugs and the Women Who Love Them (Thug #1)
Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial
Animal (Animal, #1)
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)
Wifey (Wifey, #1)
Dopefiend
Blind Corners by Jemir Robert JohnsonThe Whore and The Virgin by CeetMentality by CeetA Dog's Day by CeetLifelong Love by Taz Will
2013 Best Street Lit
15 books — 16 voters
Bankroll Squad by David WeaverThe Lipstick Clique 2 by David Weaver
#TBRS Urban Fiction Classics
2 books — 1 voter

Long Way Down by Jason ReynoldsAmerican Street by Ibi ZoboiThe Poet X by Elizabeth AcevedoWise Young Fool by Sean BeaudoinThe Bully by Paul Langan
Teen Street Lit @PCPLD
66 books — 2 voters
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


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
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Keep The Drama In Your Books, Not Your Life." - The Cartel Publications. ...more
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