Buy a Book by a Black Author and Give it to Somebody Not Black
Discover powerful fiction by Black authors—from L.A. Banks' *The Thirteenth* to Junot Díaz's *Drown*—and share these transformative stories with someone outside your circle. A curated reading list to broaden perspectives and spark meaningful conversations.
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The Air Between Us: A Compelling Civil Rights Novel of Race, Integration, and Hidden Connections
by Johnson, Deborah
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Sugar
by Bernice L. McFadden
Set in a small Arkansas town in the 1950s, this tale of loyalty and friendship between two African-American women finds Jude turning to the church after the death of her daughter, and to a young woman who turns out to be a prostitute. A first novel. Reprint.
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The Thirteenth
by L. A. Banks
Banks delivers the final story in the cult favorite Vampire Huntress series. The nation is under martial law, and if things aren't bad enough, the Dark Realm breaks the sixth biblical seal, plunging the world into perpetual darkness--and irrevocably into the Armageddon.
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Wounded
by Claudia Mair Burney
If a miracle happened to you, wouldn't you tell everyone? What if they thought you were crazy? A young single mother and the junkie she mysteriously heals find out the hard way.
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Rhythms of Grace
by Marilynn Griffith
Dancer Grace Okoye has finally found the love of her life. But can she choose between him and God? Real, raw emotion and the promise of redemption run through this soulful book.
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Drop
by Mat Johnson
A passionate and original new voice of the African-American literary tradition. Chris Jones has a gift for creating desire-a result of his own passionate desire to be anywhere but where he is, to be anyone but himself. Sick of the constraints of his black working-class town, he uses his knack for creating effective ad campaigns to land a dream job in London. But life soon takes a turn for the worse, and unexpectedly Chris finds himself back where he started, forced to return to Philadelphia where his only job prospect is answering phones at the electrical company and helping the poor pay their heating and lighting bills. Surrounded by his brethren, the down and out, the indigent, the hopeless, Chris hits bottom. Only a stroke of inspiration and faith can get him back on his feet. The funny and moving tale of a young black man who, in the process of trying to break free from the city he despises, is forced to come to terms with himself.
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Drown
by Junot Díaz
From the beloved and award-winning author Junot Díaz, a spellbinding saga of a family’s journey through the New World. A coming-of-age story of unparalleled power, Drown introduced the world to Junot Díaz's exhilarating talents. It also introduced an unforgettable narrator— Yunior, the haunted, brilliant young man who tracks his family’s precarious journey from the barrios of Santo Domingo to the tenements of industrial New Jersey, and their epic passage from hope to loss to something like love. Here is the soulful, unsparing book that made Díaz a literary sensation.