The Age of Phillis
By: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
4.45
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that cha…
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1. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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- poetry
- african american
- nonfiction
- school
"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
2. Hottentot Venus
By: Barbara Chase-Riboud
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
It is Paris, 1815. An extraordinarily shaped South African girl known as the Hottentot Venus, dress… read more
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- adult
3. Complete Writings
By: Phillis Wheatley , Vincent Carretta
3.66
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet In 1761, a yo… read more
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- poetry
- history
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- nonfiction
- african american
4. Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems
By: Robin Coste Lewis
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure through time introduces us to a… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- african american
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5. Benito Cereno
By: Herman Melville , Wyn Kelley
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
"What has cast such a shadow upon you?" "The Negro." With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, an… read more
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- school
6. Pym
By: Mat Johnson
3.91
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A comic journey into the ultimate land of whiteness by an unlikely band of African American adventu… read more
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- african american
7. The Bostonians
By: Henry James
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspi… read more
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8. Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South
By: Richard Yarborough , Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
In 1900, a mere 35 years after the Civil War had ended the practice of one human being owning anoth… read more
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9. Tender Buttons
By: Gertrude Stein
4.43
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
Tender Buttons is the best known of Gertrude Stein's "hermetic" works. It is a small book separated… read more
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10. Why I Wake Early
By: Mary Oliver
3.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snak… read more
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11. The Coquette
By: Cathy N. Davidson , Hannah Webster Foster
4.10
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poe… read more
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12. Sally Hemings
By: Barbara Chase-Riboud
4.32
Format: 80 pages, Unknown Binding
This story, based on historical fact recreates the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his sl… read more
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13. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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- african american
- adult
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
14. bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Sam Sax
4.18
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Sam Sax’s bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begi… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
15. The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts
By: Gregg Hecimovich
3.87
Format: 304 pages, ebook
A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from t… read more
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- biography
- adult
- nonfiction
- african american
16. African Europeans: An Untold History
By: Olivette Otélé
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Africans or African Europeans are widely believed to be only a recent presence in Europe, a feature… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
17. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
By: Chen Chen
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more
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- poetry
- adult
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
18. How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
By: Jericho Brown
4.44
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
More than 30 acclaimed writers—including diverse voices such as Nikki Giovanni, David Omotosho Blac… read more
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- nonfiction
19. The Age of Phillis
By: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
4.45
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that cha… read more
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- poetry
- american history
- biography
- history
- school
- feminism
- adult
- read for school
- nonfiction
- african american
20. The Book of the Dead
By: Muriel Rukeyser
4.22
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Written in response to the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The… read more
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- poetry
- history
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"These men breathe hard but the committee has a voice of steel."-Muriel Rukeyser, The Book of the Dead
"What do you want – a cliff over a city? A foreland, sloped to sea and overgrown with roses? These people live here."-Muriel Rukeyser, The Book of the Dead
"All power is saved, having no end. Rises in the green season, in the sudden season the white the budded and the lost."-Muriel Rukeyser, The Book of the Dead
"It is growing worse every day. At night "I get up to catch my breath. If I remained "flat on my back I believe I would die."-Muriel Rukeyser, The Book of the Dead
21. The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
By: Daniel José Older
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An evocative multigenerational Cuban American family story of revolution, loss, violence, and famil… read more
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"I am a thing beyond the petty politics of hopes and fear."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
"I am still here, somehow, by the grace of something bigger than me."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
"I see she's placed some coffee down there for them and I half consider taking a sip just to mess with everybody."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
"So if you ever wonder what we, the disappeared, dream of in our darkest hours, know that it is you: those who remain."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
