FPL Recommends > Black & African American Literature
Their Eyes Were
Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Zami, A New Spelling
of My Name
Audre Lorde
Tumbling
Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Devil in a Blue Dress
Walter Mosley
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Jubilee
Margaret Walker
Native Son
Richard Wright
Peaces
Helen Oyeyemi
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
We Cast a Shadow
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Grand Union
Zadie Smith
Real Life
Brandon Taylor
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
Memorial
Bryan Washington
Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson
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While Justice Sleeps
Stacey Abrams
Dead Dead Girls
Nekesa Afia
My Sister, The Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite
When No One Is Watching
Alyssa Cole
A Game of Cones
Abby Collette
Razorblade Tears
S. A. Cosby
The Conjure-Man Dies
Rudolph Fisher
And Now She's Gone
Rachel Howzell Hall
The Other Black Girl
Zakiya Dalila Harris
We Are All the
Same in the Dark
Julia Heaberlin
Lies She Told
Cate Holahan
Lightseekers
Femi Kayode
The Cutting Season
Attica Locke
The Jigsaw Man
Nadine Matheson
Trap
Melanie Raabe
American Spy
Lauren Wilkinson
The Perfect Ruin
Shanora Williams
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Once Ghosted, Twice Shy
Alyssa Cole
Before We Were Wicked
Eric Jerome Dickey
While We Were Dating
Jasmine Guillory
American Love Story
Adriana Herrera
Get A Life, Chloe Brown
Talia Hibbert
Rebel
Beverly Jenkins
Like Lovers Do
Tracey Livesay
Snapped
Alexa Martin
A Duke, The Spy, An
Artist, and A Lie
Vanessa Riley
The Dating Playbook
Farrah Rochon
The Worst Best Man
Mia Sosa
A Cowboy to Remember
Rebekah Weatherspoon
Seven Days in June
Tia Williams
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The Black God's Drums
P. Djéli Clark
Babel-17
Samuel R. Delany
My Soul to Keep
Tananarive Due
Master of Poisons
Andrea Hairston
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James
The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
The Changeling
Victor LaValle
Redemption in Indigo
Karen Lord
Binti
Nnedi Okorafor
David Mogo, Godhunter
Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Goliath
Tochi Onyebuchi
Song of Blood and Stone
L. Penelope
The Winged Histories
Sofia Samatar
Everfair
Nisi Shawl
Sorrowland
Rivers Solomon
The Sorcerer of
the Wildeeps
Kai Ashante Wilson
The Rage of Dragons
Evan Winter
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Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur
Cotton Field of Dreams:
A Memoir
Janis F. Kearney
Daisy: Between A Rock and
A Hard Place
Janis F. Kearney
Far Away From
Close to Home
Vanessa Baden Kelly
Foxy: My Life in
Three Acts
Pam Grier
Frederick Douglass:
A Biography
C. James Trotman
Having Our Say:
The Delany Sisters'
First 100 Years
Sarah Louise Delany
Heavy: An American
Memoir
Kiese Laymon
Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly
I Am the New Black
Tracy Morgan
I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Ida B. the Queen
Michelle Duster
It Is Well with My Soul
Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson
Just As I Am:
A Memoir
Cicely Tyson
No Higher Honor
Condoleezza Rice
Panther Baby: A Life of
Rebellion and Reinvention
Jamal Joseph
Somebody's Daughter:
A Memoir
Ashley C. Ford
Thirty Years a Slave
Louis Hughes
This is Just My Face:
Try Not to Stare
Gabourey Sidibe
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