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Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Algonquin Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the outside, fifteen-year-old Kambili has the perfect life. She lives in a beautiful house, has a caring family, and attends an exclusive missionary school. She's completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less... |
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Go Tell It on the Mountain (Modern Library)
James Baldwin - Modern Library
Format: Hardcover
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that... |
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Ruby: A Novel
Cynthia Bond - Crown Publishing Group
Format: Print book
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The newest Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selectionThe epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her - this beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction. Ephram Jennings has never forgotten... |
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Kindred
Octavia E. Butler - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback
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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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The Dew Breaker
Edwidge Danticat - Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Deckle Edge]
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From the universally acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!, a brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a “dew breaker”—a torturer—a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American... |
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph... |
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Erasure: A Novel
Percival Everett - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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Percival Everett’s blistering satire about race and writing, available again in paperbackThelonious "Monk" Ellison’s writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels... |
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A Lesson Before Dying (Vintage Contemporaries)
Ernest J. Gaines
Format: Book
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From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism... |
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Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin - NAL Trade; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. His audacious,... |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel
Zora Neale Hurston - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick"A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly." - Zadie SmithOne of the most important... |
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Silver Sparrow
Tayari Jones - Algonquin Books
Format: Paperback
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With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, “My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist,” author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family’s complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle.Set in a middle-class neighborhood... |
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Annie John: A Novel
Jamaica Kincaid - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First edition
Format: Paperback
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Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. A classic coming-of-age story in the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Kincaid’s novel focuses on a universal, tragic, and often comic... |
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The Good Lord Bird: A Novel
James McBride - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for FictionSoon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber and Jaden SmithA Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Oprah Magazine Top 10 Book of the YearWinner of the Morning News Tournament of Champions"A magnificent new novel by the best-selling... |
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Gathering of Waters
Bernice L. McFadden - Akashic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Selected as a Go On Girl! Book Pick“100 Notable Books of 2012” —New York Times“50 Best Books of 2012” —Washington Post"McFadden works a kind of miracle -- not only do [her characters] retain their appealing humanity; their story eclipses the bonds of history... |
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All Our Names
Dinaw Mengestu - Alfre A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed author Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award, The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 award, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius grant, comes an unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African... |
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Sula
Toni Morrison
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Amazon.com Review: In Sula, Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, tells the story of two women--friends since childhood, separated in young adulthood, and reunited as grown women. Nel Wright grows up to become a wife and mother, happy to remain in her hometown of Medallion,... |
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Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Walter Mosley - Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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When Walter Mosley burst onto the literary scene in 1990 with his first Easy Rawlins mystery, Devil in a Blue Dress - a combustible mixture of Raymond Chandler and Richard Wright - he captured the attention of hundreds of thousands of readers (including future president Bill Clinton). Eleven... |
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Women of Brewster Place
Gloria Naylor
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This is a portrait of Brewster Place where the coloured women cursed, badgered, worshipped, and shared their men. They were hard-edged, soft-centered, brutally demanding, and easily pleased. Like an ebony phoenix, each in her own time and her own season had a story.
--This text... |
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Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel
Helen Oyeyemi - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Push
Sapphire
Format: Print book
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An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears... |
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Caucasia: A Novel
Danzy Senna
Format: Paperback
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In CaucasiaDanzy Senna's extraordinary debut novel andnational bestsellerBirdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights Movement in 1970s Boston. The sisters are so close that they have created a private language,... |
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The Color Purple
Alice Walker - Audible Studios
Format: Audiobook
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused... |
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Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth
Richard Wright
Format: Paperback
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Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were... |
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