The Fire in the Flint (Brown Thrasher Books)
By: Walter Francis White
3.92
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Written by a lifelong champion of civil rights, this is the story of Kenneth Harper, a young black …
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1. Jonah's Gourd Vine
By: Zora Neale Hurston
3.99
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
The first novel by the noted black novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. Originally published i… read more
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- classics
- african american
- fiction
"...Whuss de news?" "Oh de white folks is still in de lead."-Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah's Gourd Vine
"Ah wouldn't give uh bitch uh bone if she treed uh terrapin."-Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah's Gourd Vine
"She is full uh pepper," John laughed to himself, "but ah laks dat. Anything 'thout no seasonin' in it ain't no good."-Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah's Gourd Vine
"World gone money mad. The pinch of war gone, people must spend. Buy and forget. Spend and solace. Silks for sorrows. Jewels to bring back joy."-Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah's Gourd Vine
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. Women, Race & Class
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.58
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more
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"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class
4. Lysistrata
By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden
3.87
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
5. The Dry Grass of August
By: Anna Jean Mayhew
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this beautifully written debut, Anna Jean Mayhew offers a riveting depiction of Southern life in… read more
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- fiction
6. The Blacker the Berry...
By: Wallace Thurman
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the most widely read and controversial works of the Harlem Renaissance, The Blacker the Berr… read more
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- classics
- african american
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7. The Scarlet Letter
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Nina Baym , Thomas E. Connolly
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entang… read more
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- classics
- fiction
8. The Gene: An Intimate History
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies--a magnificent h… read more
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9. Home to Harlem
By: Claude McKay , Wayne F. Cooper
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
With sensual, often brutal accuracy, Claude McKay traces the parallel paths of two very different y… read more
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- african american
- fiction
10. Jazz
By: Toni Morrison
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, mid… read more
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11. The Weary Blues
By: Langston Hughes
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful new edition of this beloved poet's first collection, originally published in 1926 when … read more
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12. There Is Confusion
By: Jessie Redmon Fauset , Thadious M. Davis
3.66
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Set in Philadelphia some 60 years ago, There Is Confusion traces the lives of Joanna Mitchell and P… read more
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- african american
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13. Mules and Men
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.12
Format: 206 pages,
Mules and Menis a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and ant… read more
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14. Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral
By: Jessie Redmon Fauset
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement's most important and… read more
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15. Quicksand
By: Nella Larsen , Thadious M. Davis
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has … read more
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16. Hiroshima
By: John Hersey
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more
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17. Not Without Laughter
By: Langston Hughes , Maya Angelou
4.19
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Although best known as a poet and pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes prove… read more
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18. The Merchant of Venice
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None
3.78
Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more
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- fiction
"He will fence with his own shadow."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
19. Evelina
By: None , Edward A. Bloom
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive accou… read more
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20. 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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21. Another Country
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more
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22. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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- fiction
"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
23. Passing
By: Nella Larsen
3.93
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more
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"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"-Nella Larsen, Passing
"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."-Nella Larsen, Passing
24. Best of Luck
By: Jason Mott
3.77
Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition
Did you ever hear the one about the man with a string of bad luck? The worst is still to come in a … read more
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25. The Lover
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.80
Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition
During a brutal winter, a young woman longing for love finds more than she expected in the woods, i… read more
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26. From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
By: Arthur C. Brooks
3.94
Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition
The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard p… read more
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27. Salt & Broom
By: Sharon Lynn Fisher
4.15
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
A gifted healer unravels the mysteries of a cursed estate—and its enigmatic owner—in a witchy retel… read more
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28. Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
By: Ted Conover
3.90
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ted Conover, a … read more
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29. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more
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"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
30. Sin Eater
By: Megan Campisi
3.61
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
For the crime of stealing bread, fourteen-year-old May receives a life sentence: she must become a … read more
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"It's always women who eat sins, since it was Eve who first ate a sin: the Forbidden Fruit."-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater
"The Sin Eater walks among us, unseen, unheard Sins of our flesh become sins of Hers Following Her to the grave, unseen, unheard The Sin Eater Walks Among Us."-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater
"With how you came into the world and what you've seen lately you should know, the more you live, the more the sinner and the saint can't be pulled apart. All of us just getting by."-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater
"Don’t I know by now that folk see their sins in the way they choose? There’s always a reason as to why selfishness is not really selfish and crimes are honest and waiting safely by while somefolk els…"-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater
31. The Fire in the Flint (Brown Thrasher Books)
By: Walter Francis White
3.92
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Written by a lifelong champion of civil rights, this is the story of Kenneth Harper, a young black … read more
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