Favorite Books Written by African American Authors
Discover favorite books written by African American authors! Explore must-read classics and contemporary works that celebrate Black voices, culture, and storytelling excellence.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the …
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Middle Passage
by Charles Johnson
A freed slave escapes his bad debts in New Orleans by stowing away on a slave ship en route to Africa.
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Eyes on the Prize
by Juan Williams
Eyes on the Prize traces the movement from the landmark Brown v. the Board of Education case in 1954 to the march on Selma and …
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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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Elbow Room
by James Alan McPherson
A beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor. Bold and very real, these …
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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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Brown Girl, Brownstones
by Paule Marshall
Selina Boyce, the daughter of immigrants from Barbados, becomes aware of her passions as she grows to womanhood in Brooklyn and experiences the conflict between …
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In My Father's House
by Ernest J. Gaines
A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past... In St. Adrienne, a small black community in Louisiana, Reverend Phillip Martin—a …
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Makes Me Wanna Holler
by Nathan McCall
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life …
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