A Mercy
By: Toni Morrison
4.51
Format: 192 pages,
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch…
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1. Wolf Whistle
By: Lewis Nordan
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In 1956, a black boy named Emmett Till was murdered for wolf-whistling at a white woman. The two wh… read more
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- literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Uncle said, "If love would save him, wouldn't no harm come to him."-Lewis Nordan, Wolf Whistle
"Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out of the Delta."-Lewis Nordan, Wolf Whistle
"Even Solon Gregg was finding it hard to speak to a woman who had just paid hard cash for tampons and on her face wore the look of a woman who meant to use them, as advertised."-Lewis Nordan, Wolf Whistle
"The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it …"-Lewis Nordan, Wolf Whistle
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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- literature
- classics
- african american
- fiction
"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. Sonny's Blues
By: James Baldwin
4.30
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Part of the Penguin 60s series, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin books. This collects "Sonny… read more
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- literature
- classics
- african american
- fiction
"It's the only light we've got in all this darkness"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart."-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to clim…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do wh…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
4. Their Eyes Were Watching God
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more
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- classics
- literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
5. The Nature of Blood
By: Caryl Phillips
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A German Jewish girl whose life is destroyed by the atrocities of World War II . . . her uncle, who… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. The Fever Chart: Three Short Visions of the Middle East
By: Naomi Wallace
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
"Naomi Wallace commits the unpardonable sin of being partisan, and, the darkness and harshness of h… read more
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7. Secret History; Or, the Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura
By: None , Michael J. Drexler , Lenora Sansay
4.00
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Based on Leonora Sansay's eyewitness accounts of the final days of French rule in Saint Domingue (H… read more
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- historical
- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. A Mercy
By: Toni Morrison
4.51
Format: 192 pages,
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
9. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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10. His Forefathers and Mick
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.36
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
"His forefathers and Mick", traces the riveting saga of the Kramer family across three tumultuous g… read more
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"Adrian blew his whistle and shouted, “Attack and put too death all those who oppose the fatherland!"-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
"Kurt said, “I have always wanted to wipe that self-satisfied smug look from the face of thee Prussian Pickle!"-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
"Heinrich replied, “The fact that Kramer’s radio station has been wiped out by the British Navy in now classified information!"-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
"Fritz Kramer said, “I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals should cause any German, American or British person any concern."-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
11. Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
By: K. Ritz
4.33
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
Synopsis: For five years Me’acca Mysuth Sheever has lived among his “sworn enemies,” pretending to … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"At what point does faith become insanity?"-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
"Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?"-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
"Mead. O sweet elixir, Ye bless the lips and steal the wits. "-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
"This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it."-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
12. Isabella Warrior Queen
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.30
Format: None pages, ebook
The complete story of Isabella, her husband King Edward II, their son who was King Edward III and t… read more
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- historical
"Eliza answered, “My Lady, that was Sir Roger Mortimer!"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
"Cynthia said, “How are things going for you with this birth?"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
"When speaking to her husband, Isabella replied, Mon tresdoutz coer, (My very sweet heart) please do that and perhaps I shall be able to continue to perform official functions on your behalf!"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
"On the 16th of Febuary 1312, when Isabella was aged sixteen years, the couple were at their hunting lodge when Edward suddenly took Isabella into his arms and began to kiss her and pay her a lot of a…"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
13. 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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- literary fiction
- classics
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"-Nella Larsen, Passing
"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."-Nella Larsen, Passing
14. 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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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
15. Victor's Blessing
By: Barbara Sontheimer
4.34
Format: 582 pages, Paperback
Victor Gant, a 6'5" half-Osage blacksmith is an unusual hero for a Civil War love story. But Victor… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Then wake up my sweet, wake up knowing that your future is to be happy, and that your heart will heal."-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid. Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six."-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"He turned and smiled resolvedly at her. He knew no one else would ever understand that for Arvellen, sex only had to do with friendship and of pleasing one another, and nothing at all to do with wha…"-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"I'm afraid!" She cried breaking free from his embrace. But this time, he refused to let her go. "No, no, no, you're not afraid of me! What am I...a foot and half taller than you and out weigh you b…"-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
16. Doppelgangbanger
By: Cortney Lamar Charleston
3.82
Format: None pages, None
Dopplegangbanger , rendered as the A- and B-sides of an album of poems, re-imagines and remixes Ame… read more
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17. The Toni Morrison Book Club
By: Juda Bennett
4.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this startling group memoir, four friends—black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and Ameri… read more
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- african american
18. Maroon Choreography (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
By: fahima ife
4.22
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In Maroon Choreography fahima ife speculates on the long (im)material, ecological, and aesthetic af… read more
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19. In the Heart of America
By: Naomi Wallace
3.69
Format: 74 pages, Paperback
Appalachian-born Craver and Palestinian-American Remzi bond in a way characteristic of soldiers, bu… read more
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20. A Raisin in the Sun (Paperback, 1994)
By: Lorraine Hansberry
3.93
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
New York "The play that changed American theater forever... A seething interplay of past and presen… read more
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- classics
21. Cambodian Rock Band
By: Lauren Yee
4.29
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
In 1978, Chum fled Cambodia and narrowly escaped the murderous Khmer Rouge regime. Thirty years lat… read more
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