African American Fiction Reading List
Ansa, Tina McElroy
Baby of the Family
Hand I Fan With
Ugly Ways
Baker, Calvin
Naming the New World
Baldwin, James
Another Country
Early Novels and Stories
Giovanni's Room
If Beale Street Could Talk
Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone
Beatty, Paul
The White Boy Shuffle
Berry, Venise
So Good
Bowman, Elizabeth
White Chocolate
Briscoe, Connie
Big Girls Don't Cry
Bunkley, Anita Richmond
Balancing Act
Black Gold
Butler, Octavia
Adulthood Rites
Bloodchild And Other Stories
Clay's Ark
Dawn Xenogenesis
Imago
Kindred
Parable Of The Sower
Parable Of The Talents
Patternmaster
Campbell, Bebe Moore
Brothers And Sisters
Singing In The Comeback Choir
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
Cary, Lorene
Pride
Chase-Riboud, Barbara
Echo Of Lions
President's Daughter
Sally Hemmings
Valide
Cleage, Pearl
What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day
Cooper, J. California
Family
Homemade Love
In Search Of Satisfaction
Matter Is Life
A Piece of Mine
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime
Wake of The Wind
Copeland, Shelia
Chocolate Star
Danticat, Edwidge
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Farming of The Bones
Krik? Krak!
Dash, Julie
Daughters Of The Dust
Deberry, Virginia and Donna Grant
Tryin' To Sleep In The Bed You Made
Dickey, Jerome
Friends And Lovers
Milk In My Coffee
Due, Tannarive
The Between
My Soul To Keep
Ellis, Erika
Good Fences
Ellison, Ralph
Flying Home And Other Stories
Invisible Man
Ewing, Rita
Homecourt Advantage
Files, Lolita
Getting To The Good Part
Scenes From A Sistah
French, Albert
I Can't Wait On God
Patches of Fire
Goines, Donald
Black Gangster
Black Girl Lost
Cry Revenge
Daddy Cool
Never Die Alone
Whoreson
Gaines, Ernest
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
A Gathering Of Old Men
In My Father's House
A Lesson Before Dying
Golden, Marita
Edge Of Heaven
Long Distance Life
Gould, Sandra Lee
Faraday's Popcorn Factory
Griffith, Lois
Among Others
Haley, Alex
Mama Flora's Family
Roots
Harris, E. Lynn
And This Too Shall Pass
If This World Were Mine
Invisible Life
Just As I Am
Haynes, David
All American Dream Dolls
Live At Five
Right By My Side
Somebody Else's Mama
Hill, Ernest
Life For A Life
Hill, Mars
Moaner's Bench
Himes, Chester
A Rage In Harlem
Yesterday Will Make You Cry
Hopkinson, Nalo
Brown Girl in the Ring
Hurston, Zora Neale
Complete Stories
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Iceberg Slim
Doom Fox
Jackson-Opoku, Sandra
River Where Blood Is Born
Jackson, Brian
The View From Here
Jackson, Sheneska
Blessings
Caught Up In The Rapture
Li'l Mama's Rules
Joe, Yolanda
Bebe's By Golly Wow
He Say, She Say
Johnson, Charles Richard
Dreamer
Middle Passage
Johnson, Guy
Standing At The Scratch Line
Jones, Gayl
Healing
Mosquito
Kincaid, Jamaica
Annie John
Autobiography Of My Mother
Lucy
Little, Benilde
Good Hair
Itch
Lovelace, Earl
Dragon Can't Dance
Salt
Major, Clarence
All Night Visitors
Dirty Bird Blues
McKinney-Whetson, Diane
Tempest Rising
Tumbling
McKnight, Reginald
White Boys: Stories
McLarin, Kim
Taming It Down
McMillan, Rosalyn
Blue Collar Blues
Knowing
One Better
McMillan, Terry
Disappearing Act
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Mama
Waiting To Exhale
Mitchell, Sharon
Nothing But the Rent
Morrison, Toni
Beloved
Bluest Eye
Jazz
Paradise
Song Of Solomon
Sula
Tar Baby
Mosley, Walter
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Black Betty
Blue Light
Devil In A Blue Dress
Gone Fishin'
A Little Yellow Dog
A Red Death
White Butterfly
Murray, Albert
Seven League Boots
Spyglass Tree
Train Whistle Guitar
Naylor, Gloria
Bailey's Cafe
Linden Hills
Mama Day
The Men Of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place
Nero, Clarence
Cheekie: A Child Out of Desire
Pate, Alexs
Amistad
Finding Makeba
Losing Absalom
Perry, Alesia
Stigmata
Petry, Ann
Miss Muriel and Other Stories
Porter, Connie
All-Bright Court
Imani All Mine
Riley, Len
Harlem
Roby, Kimberla Lawson
Behind Closed Doors
Here and Now
Roy, Lucinda
Lady Moses
Sanders, Dori
Clover
Her Own Place
Sapphire
Push
Senna, Danzy
Caucasia
Sinclair, April
Ain't Gonna Be The Same Fool Twice
Coffee Will Make You Black
Smith, Mary Burnett
Miss Ophelia
Ring Around The Moon
Straight, Susan
Blacker Than A Thousand Midnights
Getting Place
I've Been In Sorrow's Kitchen And I've Licked Out All The Pots
Taylor, Mel
The Mitt Man
Trice, Dawn Turner
Only Twice I've Wished For Heaven
Troutt, David Dante
Monkey Suite And Other Short Fiction
Tyree, Omar
Do Right Man
Flyy Girl
Single Mom
Walker, Alice
By The Light Of My Father's Smile
Color Purple
Meridian
Possessing The Secret Of Joy
The Temple Of My Familiar
Welch-Tyson, Delorys
Gingersnaps
West, Dorothy
Living Is Easy
Wedding
White, Franklin
Fed Up With The Fanny
Whitehead, Colson
The Intuitionist
Wideman, John Edgar
Cattle Killing
Two Cities
Willard, Tom
Buffalo Soldiers
Sable Doughboys
Wright, Richard
Eight Men: Stories
Native Son
The Outsider
Youngblood, Shay
Soul Kiss
Mystery, Suspense and Thriller Authors
Eleanor Taylor Bland
Charlotte Carter
Evelyn Coleman
Margaret Cuthbert
Nora DeLoach
Grace F. Edwards
Louis Edwards
Robert O. Greer
Terris McMahan Grimes
Gary Hardwick
Gar Anthony Haywood
Chester Himes
Hugh Holton
Penny Mickelbury
Walter Mosley
Barbara Neely
Gary Phillips
John Ridley
Judith Smith-Levin
Pamela Thomas-Graham
Blair S. Walker
Valerie Wilson Wesley
Chassie West
Romance Authors
Rochelle Alers
Robyn Amos
Angela Benson
Gywnne Forster
Donna Hill
Sandra Kitt
Ebonie Snoe
Online Resources:
African
American Literature Book Club
The
African American Literary Forum
The
African American Mystery Page
Quarterly
Black Review
Blackwriters.Org
African-American
Romance Writers
Please ask a librarian if you need help finding additional materials
of interest.
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