Training School for Negro Girls
By: Camille Acker
3.73
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
As unapologetic and resilient as the DC neighborhoods they live in, these women challenge monolithi…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Some things you can only say when the streetlights are on and only parts of the world are illuminated."-Camille Acker, Training School for Negro Girls
"Some things you can only say when the streetlights are on and only parts of the world are illuminated."-Camille Acker, Training School for Negro Girls
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- feminism
- race
- african american
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2. All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
By: Edward P. Jones
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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- short stories
- african american
- fiction
- contemporary
3. Everything in This Country Must
By: Colum McCann
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In his fourth book, Colum McCann turns to the "troubles" in Northern Ireland and reveals the reverb… read more
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4. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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- african american
- race
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- audiobook
5. A Christmas to Remember (Blessings, #11)
By: Beverly Jenkins
4.33
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Ever since Bernadine Brown bought the town of Henry Adams, her relationship with diner owner Malach… read more
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- audiobook
- african american
- fiction
- contemporary
6. Double Lives
By: Mary Monroe
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns with an outrageous new tale of … read more
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- adult fiction
- african american
- fiction
"Life is a gift. You need to live."-Mary Monroe, Double Lives
7. Holding
By: Alexandria House
4.11
Format: None pages, ebook
Childhood neighbors, enemies, best friends, lovers, enemies, Sires lineman Terrence Ford and his ex… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
8. Brooklyn
By: Tracy Brown
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
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9. She Memes Well
By: Quinta Brunson
4.07
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
From Emmy Award-winning writer Quinta Brunson (creator and star of Abbott Elementary ) comes a deep… read more
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- audiobook
10. When Life Gives You Mangos
By: Kereen Getten
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The story about a young girl who can't remember anything from her previous summer after a hurricane… read more
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- coming of age
- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"Somehow, they suit each other, Rudy and Eldorath. They have the same imagination, and it’s as if they have been waiting for each other their whole lives."-Kereen Getten, When Life Gives You Mangos
11. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
By: Zora Neale Hurston
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available t… read more
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- african american
- audiobook
"I am striving desperately for a toe-hold on the world."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
"People value monuments above men, and signs above works."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
"A woman robbed of her love is more terrible than an army with banners."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
"The heart of man is an ever empty abyss into which the whole world shall fall and be swallowed up."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
12. Neighbors and Other Stories
By: Diane Oliver
4.04
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day… read more
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- race
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
- audiobook
"Sometimes I wonder why more of us ain't dead."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"He loved them, he had to. After all, they were his, but sometimes loving became a burden. And if he had met them at the bus station, perhaps they would have become that to him."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"By giving woman the exalted position, the man takes away her freedom. By treating her like a goddess, he forces her to act like a goddess... but the man is then free to act like a human being."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"He's going to wonder why, and how are we going to tell him we're afraid of them?" Her father's hand clutched the coffee cup. "He's going to be fighting them the rest of his life. He's got to start so…"-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
13. Caul Baby
By: Morgan Jerkins
3.79
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Morgan Jerkins makes her fiction debut with this electrifying nov… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
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14. My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me
By: Caleb Carr
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling author of The Alienist, Caleb Carr , tells the extraordinary story of Masha, … read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
15. Can't We Be Friends
By: Denny S. Bryce
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Denny S. Bryce and USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight collaborate on a … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
16. The Secret to a Southern Wedding (Peachtree Cove)
By: Synithia Williams
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
An emotional and witty story of love, forgiveness, and second chances as the race to the wedding da… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
17. Heads of the Colored People
By: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
4.11
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, this collection of moving, timely, an… read more
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- race
- short stories
- social justice
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
- audiobook
"As a funeral singer, she had more gigs than she wanted and paid for the fertility treatments on her own with the profits, though it seemed wrong to call them that."-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
"Marjorie was only thirty-seven, but she felt older than her peers; some of them would say she felt better than them, too. But that wasn't true. If anything, she felt inferior for all the many ways sh…"-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
"She did not want to be one of those people who went to therapy for the rest of their lives, blathering on about what "my therapist said" or "what we uncovered in therapy." It struck Marjorie that tho…"-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
"She knew that she should feel discontentment, connected to a large chain of disenfranchisement or systemic persecution--it's not that black death and the news of the world didn't touch her spirit--bu…"-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
18. Room on the Sea
By: André Aciman
3.40
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Paul was reading a newspaper. Catherine was reading a novel. So begins Room on the Sea, André Acima… read more
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- contemporary
19. Training School for Negro Girls
By: Camille Acker
3.73
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
As unapologetic and resilient as the DC neighborhoods they live in, these women challenge monolithi… read more
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- adult fiction
- race
- coming of age
- feminism
- short stories
- social justice
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
- audiobook
"Some things you can only say when the streetlights are on and only parts of the world are illuminated."-Camille Acker, Training School for Negro Girls
20. The World Doesn't Require You
By: Rion Amilcar Scott
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Established by the leaders of the country’s only successful slave revolt in the mid-nineteenth cent… read more
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- race
- short stories
- fiction
- african american
- audiobook
"I'm sorry. It feels like the moment calls for some humor. You're ranting and dressed like Elmo. The Cookie Monster. Whatever, Rashid"-Rion Amilcar Scott, The World Doesn't Require You
"Walter noticed the blue Cookie Monster head resting on the floor, From some angles, the smiling open mouth looked like an expression of abashed joy, from others it resembled horror."-Rion Amilcar Scott, The World Doesn't Require You
"How we diminished her and in turn ourselves. Turned parts of her body into heavy burdens to carry. Watching. Tittering (we no longer laughed, from then on it was tittering). Commenting. Losing our co…"-Rion Amilcar Scott, The World Doesn't Require You
"I put my hand on a bishop, my would be assassin, and thought of my father's heights when he won, how he galloped around. The depths of his despair at losing, I expected, would be equal to the peaks. …"-Rion Amilcar Scott, The World Doesn't Require You
21. Hundred Waters, The
By: Lauren Acampora
3.37
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Formerly a model and photographer trying to make it in New York, Louisa Rader is back in her afflue… read more
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