African-American Novels
Explore a curated list of must-read African-American novels, featuring powerful stories and voices that celebrate Black culture, history, and resilience. Discover classics and contemporary works today.
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Another Country
by James Baldwin
From one of the most important American novelists of the twentieth century—a novel of sexual, racial, political, artistic passions, set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and …
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A Gathering of Old Men
by Ernest J. Gaines
A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane …
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story …
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Meridian
by Alice Walker
Meridian is a poignant and powerful story of the American South in the 1960s and of one woman who risks her life for the people …
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
Set in the period between the world wars, this novel tells of two sisters, their trials, and their survival.
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A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," …
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A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest J. Gaines
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a …
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Tumbling
by Diane Mckinney-whetstone
A beautiful and uplifting debut from one of the,most exciting voices in new black fiction.,.
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” …
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Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
by Bebe Moore Campbell
"ABSORBING...COMPELLING...HIGHLY SATISFYING." --San Francisco Chronicle "TRULY ENGAGING...Campbell has a storyteller's ear for dialogue and the visual sense of painting a picture and a place....There's a …
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Sula
by Toni Morrison
Two black women grow up in a small Ohio town, mature along sharply divergent paths, confront and reconcile with each other.
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The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and …
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Cane River
by Lalita Tademy
The "New York Times" bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick--the unique and deeply moving epic of four generations of African-American women based on one family's …
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The Between
by Tananarive Due
A brilliant novel of horror and the supernatural in which a middle–class African–American family's very existence is threatened by inner and outer demons, now in …
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Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
In a futuristic society filled with chaos, young Lauren Olamina begins a journey that will test her will and ultimately start a new faith. Includes …
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Billy
by Albert French
Albert French lights up the monstrous face of American racism in this harrowing tale of ten-year-old Billy Lee Turner, who is convicted and executed for …
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