Books about African American Literature

65 books

I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett

Percival Everett

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

Passing by Nella Larsen, Matthew Hodgson, Tamar Mishmar

Nella Larsen, Matthew Hodgson, Tamar Mishmar

Erasure by Percival L. Everett

Percival L. Everett

Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins

Beverly Jenkins

Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins

This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope by Shayla Lawson

Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel by ReShonda Tate

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Luster by Raven Leilani

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow

Tara M. Stringfellow

The Living Blood by Tananarive Due

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Octavia E. Butler

Buck: A Memoir by M.K. Asante

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe

Christina Sharpe

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Don't Cry for Me by Daniel Black

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Octavia E. Butler