AFRICAN AMERICAN
TITLES
Updated: 6/7/2023
Fiction
- *Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame – Friday black | 2018
- *Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame – Chain-gang All-stars | 2023
- *Atakora, Afia – Conjure women : a novel | 2020
- Bazawule, Blitz – The Scent of Burnt Flowers | June 2022
- *Bennett, Brit – The vanishing half | 2020
- Benson, Jendella – Hope and Glory | April 2022
- Black, Daniel – Don’t Cry for Me | February 2022
- Blackburn, Lizzie Damilola – Yinka, Where is your Huzband? | January 2022
- *Butler, Octavia E. – Parable of the sower : a novel | 2016 (1993)
- *Coates, Ta-Nehisi – The water dancer : a novel | 2019
- Cross-Smith, Leesa – Half-Blown Rose | June 2022
- Dillsworth, Lianne – Theatre Of Marvels | April 2022
- *Ellison, Ralph – Juneteenth | 1999
- Escoffery, Jonathan – If I Survive You | September 2022
- *Giddings, Megan – Lakewood : a novel | 2020
- *Greenidge, Kaitlyn – Libertie : a novel | 2021
- Guillory, Jasmine – By the Book : a meant to be novel | May 2022
- *Harris, Nathan, Sgt. – The sweetness of water | 2021
- Ice-T (Musician) – Split Decision | July 2022
- Jaye, Lola – The Attic Child | September 2022
- *Jones, Edward P. – The known world | 2003
- *LaValle, Victor – The ballad of Black Tom | 2016
- *McBride, James – Deacon King Kong | 2020
- Miller, Vanessa – Something Good | March 2022
- Monae, Janelle – The Memory Librarian | April 2022
- Morris, Wanda M. – Anywhere you Run | October 2022
- *Morrison, Toni – Beloved | 1987
- Moshfegh, Ottessa – Lapvona | June 2022
- Mottley, Leila – Nightcrawling | June 2022
- Naga, Noor – If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English | April 2022
- Newson, Rasheed – My Government Means to Kill Me | August 2022
- Obuobi, Shirlene – On Rotation | June 2022
- Onyebuchi, Tochi – Goliath | January 2022
- Perkins-Valdez, Dolen – Take My Hand | April 2022
- *Reid, Kiley – Such a fun age : a novel | 2019
- Roby, Kimberla Lawson – Sister Friends Forever | August 2022
- Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson – On the Rooftop | September 2022
- *Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson – The revisioners : a novel | 2019
- Slocumb, Brendan – The Violin Conspiracy | February 2022
- Smith, Danyel – Shine Bright | April 2022
- *Solomon, Rivers – The deep | 2019
- Stringfellow, Tara M. – Memphis | April 2022
- *Walker, Margaret – Jubilee | 1999 (1966)
- *Whitehead, Colson – Harlem Shuffle | 2021
- *Whitehead, Colson – The underground railroad : a novel | 2016
- Wilkerson, Charmaine – Black Cake | February 2022
- Wolfe, Toya – Last summer on State Street |June 2022
Non-Fiction
- *Abdurraqib, Hanif – A little devil in America : notes in praise of Black performance | 2021
- Alexander, Elizabeth – The Trayvon Generation | April 2022
- Andrews-Dyer, Helena – The Mamas : what I learned about kids, class, and race from moms not like me | September 2022
- *Angelou, Maya – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | 1969
- Arthur Riley, Cole – This Here Flesh : spirituality, liberation, and the stories that make us | February 2022
- Beauvais, Garcelle – Love Me as I Am | April 2022
- *Coates, Ta-Nehisi – Between the World and Me | 2015
- Crews, Terry – Tough – My Journey to True Power | April 2022
- Davis, Viola – Finding Me | April 2022
- *Douglass, Frederick – Autobiographies | 1994 (includes Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845); My Bondage and My Freedom (1855); and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881))
- *Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) – The souls of Black folk: and related readings | 1998 (1903)
- *Dunbar, Erica Armstrong – She came to slay : the life and times of Harriet Tubman | 2019
- *Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. – The Black church : this is our story, this is our song | 2021
- *Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. – Stony the road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow | 2019
- *Gordon-Reed, Annette – On Juneteenth | 2021
- *Hannah-Jones, Nikole – The 1619 Project : a new origin story | 2021
- Harris, Taylor – This boy we made : a memoir of motherhood, genetics, and facing the unknown. | January 2022
- Hill, DaMaris B. – A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing | January 2019
- Hill, Jemele – Uphill : a memoir | October 2022
- *Hurston, Zora Neale – Barracoon : the story of the last “black cargo” | 2018
- *Jacobs, Harriet A. – Incidents in the life of a slave girl | 1988 (1861)
- *Kendi, Ibram X. – Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019 | 2021
- Kennedy, Kostya – True | April 2022
- Lewis, Jenifer – Walking in my Joy | August 2022
- Lewis-Giggetts, Tracey M. – Black Joy : stories of resistance, resilience, and restoration | February 2022
- Obama, Michelle – The Light we Carry | November 2022
- Perry, Imani – South to America : a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation | January 2022
- Reed, Adolph L. – The South | February 2022
- Rooks, A.E. – The Black Joke | January 2022
- Ryan, April – Black Women will Save the World : an anthem | October 2022
- *Smith, Clint – How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America | 2021
- Smith, Danyel – Shine Bright : a very personal history of black women in pop | April 2022
- *Stevenson, Bryan – Just Mercy | 2014
- *Stewart, Danté – Shoutin’ in the fire : an American epistle | 2021
- Taylor, Nicole – Watermelon and Red Birds | May 2022
- Tinsley, Justin – It Was all a Dream | May 2022
- *Tipton-Martin, Toni – Jubilee : recipes from two centuries of African-American cooking | 2019
- Twitty, Michael – KosherSoul : the Faith and food Journey of an African American Jew| August 2022
- Walker, Alice – Gathering Blossoms under Fire | April 2022
- White, Jonathan W. – A House Built by Slaves | February 2022
- *Wilkerson, Isabel – The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America’s great migration | 2011
- *Willis, Deborah – Envisioning emancipation : Black Americans and the end of slavery | 2013
- *Wills, Shomari – Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires | 2018