If He Hollers Let Him Go
By: Chester Himes , Hilton Als
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
This story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful toda…
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1. Fat City
By: Leonard Gardner
4.02
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Fat City is a novel about the indestructibility of of hope, the anguish and comedy of the human con… read more
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"Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him alone, and he did not des…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"Out in the fog, weary, yet buoyant from the drinks, his mind dulled along with his aches and his energy returning, Tully was free of the sense of impending ordeal that had been with him for weeks. He…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
2. Cane
By: Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner
3.83
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evo… read more
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"Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free…"-Jean Toomer, Cane
3. Citizen 13660 (Classics of Asian American Literature)
By: Mine Okubo , Christine Hong
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Miné Okubo was one of more than a hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds o… read more
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4. Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)
By: Elmore Leonard
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Ordell Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie… read more
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"He sat in the living room in the dark, an expert at waiting, a nineteen-year veteran of it, waiting for people who failed to appear, missed court dates because they forgot or didn't care, and took of…"-Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)
5. If He Hollers Let Him Go
By: Chester Himes , Hilton Als
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
This story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful toda… read more
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6. Juno and the Paycock
By: Seán O'Casey
3.23
Format: 403 pages,
The most famous play by this remarkable Irish dramatist. Juno and the Paycock has been produced thr… read more
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7. Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
By: Elmore Leonard
4.00
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of 37 novels including Get Shorty and the recent Pagan Babies, … read more
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"I want you to understand,"-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
"I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together."-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
"Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind. “You’d shoot me, you get the chance?"-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
8. Open City
By: Teju Cole
4.00
Format: 45 pages, Hardcover
Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The … read more
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9. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
By: Mike Davis
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more
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10. Caucasia
By: Danzy Senna
3.37
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
In Caucasia--Danzy Senna's extraordinary debut novel and national bestseller--Birdie and Cole are t… read more
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11. Petersburg
By: Andrei Bely , Robert A. Maguire , None
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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12. Black No More
By: George S. Schuyler
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Modern Library Harlem Renaissance What would happen to the race problem in America if black people … read more
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13. Black Betty (Easy Rawlins #4)
By: Walter Mosley
4.36
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
1961:For most black Americans, these were times of hope. For former P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles'… read more
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14. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
By: Arna Bontemps , James Weldon Johnson
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more… read more
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15. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more
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16. City Primeval
By: Elmore Leonard
3.69
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
Clement Mansell, knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The crazed killer is back on the Det… read more
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17. Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
By: Anna Deavere Smith
3.19
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Anna Deavere Smith's stunning new work of "documentary theater" in which she uses verbatim the word… read more
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18. Drive (Drive, #1)
By: James Sallis
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Set mostly in Arizona and L.A., Drive is about a man who does stunt driving for movies by day and d… read more
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19. The Big Clock
By: Nicholas Christopher , Kenneth Fearing
3.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, none-too-scrupulous writer for a New York media co… read more
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20. The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem
By: Rudolph Fisher
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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21. In a Lonely Place
By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more
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