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The Other Black Girl: A Novel

Zakiya Dalila Harris - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

"A thrilling, edgier Devil Wears Prada that explores privilege and racism." - The Washington Post Urgent, propulsive, and sharp as a knife, The Other Black Girl is an electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop...
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Red at the Bone: A Novel

Jacqueline Woodson - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming.Two families from different social classes are joined together...
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Kindred

Octavia E. Butler - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback

Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana...
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Black Buck

Mateo Askaripour

There's nothing like a black salesman on a mission. An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks...
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The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)

Toni Morrison - Vintage International
Format: Paperback

Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows...
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Heads of the Colored People: Stories

Nafissa Thompson-Spires - Atria / 37 INK
Format: Paperback

This "vivid, fast, funny, way-smart, and verbally inventive" (George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo) collection of stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era.A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples...
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The Nickel Boys: A Novel

Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced...
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The Vanishing Half: A Novel

Brit Bennett - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together...
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Riot Baby

Tochi Onyebuchi - Tor.com
Format: Hardcover

"Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and power that in the end it turns what we call a narrative into something different altogether." -- Marlon JamesRooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both...
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An American Marriage: A Novel

Tayari Jones - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION "Haunting . . . Beautifully written." --The New York Times Book Review "Brilliant and heartbreaking . . . Unforgettable." --USA Today "A tense and timely love story...
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The Man Who Lived Underground

Richard Wright
Format: Hardcover


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When No One Is Watching: A Thriller

Alyssa Cole - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times Notable author, in which the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood takes on a sinister new meaning ... Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change...
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Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

Jesmyn Ward - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner...
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How Long 'til Black Future Month?: Stories

N. K. Jemisin - Orbit
Format: Hardcover

Three-time Hugo Award winner N. K. Jemisin's first collection of short fiction challenges and enchants with breathtaking stories of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection...
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Such a Fun Age

Kiley Reid - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.Alix...
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The World Doesn't Require You: Stories

Rion Amilcar Scott - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

One of Esquire's Most Anticipated Books of 2019Breathtakingly imaginative and unapologetically original, The World Doesn't Require You announces a bold, generational talent. Deftly spinning genres of his feverish literary invention, Rion Amilcar Scott creates his very own Yoknapatawpha...
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The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club): A Novel

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

Number one New York Times best sellerOprahs Book Club PickFrom the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom."This potent book about Americas most disgraceful...
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The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories

Danielle Evans - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and x-ray insights into complex human relationships. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters' lives in a way that allows them to speak to larger...
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Seven Days in June

Tia Williams - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

. Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event,...
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Delicious Foods: A Novel

James Hannaham - Little
Format: Hardcover

"Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband. Unable to cope with her grief, she turns to drugs, and quickly forms an addiction. One day she disappears without a trace. Unbeknownst to eleven-year-old...
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Real Life: A Novel

Brandon Taylor - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice. A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend--and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted...
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Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeRalph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal,...
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The Kindest Lie: A Novel

Nancy Johnson
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Tayari Jones and Jacqueline Woodson, a searing, thought-provoking page-turner about race, class, identity, and the pursuit of the American dream."The Kindest Lie is a deep dive into how we define family, what it means to be a mother, what secrets we owe to those we love,...
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American Spy: A Novel

Lauren Wilkinson - Random House
Format: Hardcover

What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love One woman struggles to choose between her honor and her heart in this enthralling espionage drama that deftly hops between New York and West Africa. It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence...
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The Sellout: A Novel

Paul Beatty - Farrar
Format: Print book

Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionNamed one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street JournalA biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme...
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The Revisioners: A Novel

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

"Few capture the literary world's attention with their debut like [Sexton] did; her first novel, A Kind of Freedom, was nominated for the National Book Award. . . Her anticipated follow-up offers a bracing window into Southern life and tensions, alternating between two women's...
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Bluebird, Bluebird

ATTICA LOCKE - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

A "heartbreakingly resonant" thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire. (USA Today) *Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Novel**Coming soon...
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Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Walter Mosley - Doubleday
Format: Print book

Walter Mosley's indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve.Picking up where his last adventures in Rose Gold left off in L.A. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins finds his life in transition. He's ready - finally...
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Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel

Helen Oyeyemi - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

As seen on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as "gloriously unsettling ... evoking Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Angela Carter, Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriel García Márquez, Chris Abani and even Emily Dickinson," and already one of the years most...
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American Histories

John Edgar Wideman - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

In a new short story collection, John Edgar Wideman - the acclaimed author of Writing to Save a Life - explores subjects from the historical to the imagined, with a cast of fictional and real-life characters as diverse as Frederick Douglass, Jean Michael Basquiat, and his own family.John...
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Homegoing: A novel

Yaa Gyasi - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book PrizeA New York Times 2016 Notable BookOne of Oprah's 10 Favorite Books of 2016NPR's Debut Novel of the YearOne of Buzzfeed's Best Fiction Books Of 2016One of Time's Top 10 Novels of 2016, Winner of 2017 PEN Hemingway award for debut...
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We Cast a Shadow: A Novel

Maurice Carlos Ruffin - One World
Format: Hardcover

A bold, provocative debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty's The Sellout, about a father's obsessive quest to protect his son - even if it means turning him white"An incisive and necessary work of brilliant satire." - Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist"You...
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Deacon King Kong: A Novel

James McBride - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting.In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses...
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Friday Black

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback

"These stories are an excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny, yet classical in the way they take on stubborn human problems: the depravities of capitalism, love struggling to assert itself within heartless systems. The wildly talented Adjei-Brenyah has made these...
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God Help the Child (Vintage International)

Toni Morrison - Vintage
Format: Paperback

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A New York Times Notable Book * This fiery and provocative novel from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult.At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose...
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Washington Black: A novel

Esi Edugyan - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

* TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, TIME, Entertainment Weekly, Slate* ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Boston Globe, NPR, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Economist, Bustle* WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE* FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER...
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Another Brooklyn: A Novel

Jacqueline Woodson - Amistad Press
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where...
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The Travelers: A Novel

Regina Porter - Hogarth
Format: Hardcover

"American history comes to vivid, engaging life in this tale of two interconnected families (one white, one black) that spans from the 1950s to Barack Obama's first year as president....
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Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Anchor
Format: Paperback

The bestselling novel - a love story of race and identity - from the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadIfemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they...
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Another Country

James Baldwin - Vintage
Format: Paperback

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadSet in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting...
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Everywhere You Don't Belong

Gabriel Bump - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

"This book is astonishing. You'll be smiling even as your heart is breaking, and you'll tip willingly into this world Bump offers you, because what appears again and again are spectacular beams of light also called love, also called hope, also called family. Gabriel Bump has established...
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Welcome to Braggsville: A Novel

T. Geronimo Johnson - William Morrow; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

National BestsellerFrom the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of Hold It 'Til It Hurts comes a dark and socially provocative Southern-fried comedy about four UC Berkeley students who stage a dramatic protest during a Civil War reenactment - longlisted for the 2015...
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A Good Neighborhood

Therese Anne Fowler - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"Therese Anne Fowler has taken the ingredients of racism, justice, and conservative religion and has concocted a feast of a read: compelling, heartbreaking, and inevitable. I finished A Good Neighborhood in a single sitting. Yes, it's that good." -- Jodi Picoult, #1 New York...
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Red Island House: A Novel

Andrea Lee
Format: Hardcover

Shay is surprised when her husband Senna declares his intention to build her a spectacular dream house on an idyllic beach in the tropical island nation of Madagascar. But the Red Island House casts a spell from the moment she sees it, and before she knows it Shay has become the somewhat...
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