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Your House Will Pay

2024
"Your House Will Pay" is a gripping and thought-provoking novel that explores themes of ra

Blanche Passes Go

2024
"Blanche Passes Go" is a compelling mystery novel that follows the life of Blanche White,

Inner City Blues

2024
"Inner City Blues" follows the story of a determined African American detective, who finds

When Death Comes Stealing

2024
"When Death Comes Stealing" is a gripping mystery novel that follows Tamara Hayle, a forme

The Color Of Law

2024
"The Color of Law" by Richard Rothstein explores the deeply ingrained history of racial se

A Princess In Theory

2024
"A Princess In Theory" is a contemporary romance novel that follows the story of Naledi Sm

Man Gone Down

2024
"Man Gone Down" by Michael Thomas is a novel about a middle-aged African American man who

A Mercy

2024
"A Mercy" by Toni Morrison is a historical fiction novel set in the late 17th century in A

On Juneteenth

2024
"On Juneteenth" is a memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed that expl

The Love Songs Of W.E.B. Dubois

2024
"The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois" is a multi-generational family saga that explores the c

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol I and II

2024
The book follows the life of Octavian, a young African American boy raised in a strange an

The Women of Brewster Place

2024
The book is a poignant narrative that weaves together the lives of seven African American

The Snowy Day

2024
The book tells the story of a young boy's adventures on a snowy day. He wakes up to find h

Best of Simple

2024
"Best of Simple" is a collection of tales featuring the character Jesse B. Semple, or "Sim

There Are No Children Here

2024
The book follows the lives of two young African-American brothers growing up in a public h

Strange Fruit

2024
"Strange Fruit" is a controversial novel set in the 1920s South, which explores the tragic

Locking Up Our Own

2024
This book delves into the complex and controversial issue of mass incarceration in the Uni

An Untamed State

2024
This novel tells the harrowing story of a Haitian-American woman who is kidnapped for rans

Blind Man with a Pistol

2024
In the heart of Harlem, a blind man shoots his pistol aimlessly, setting off a series of c

Passing

2024
"Passing" is a novel about two light-skinned African-American women, Irene Redfield and Cl

Quicksand

2024
"Quicksand" is a semi-autobiographical novel about a mixed-race woman named Helga Crane wh

Albert Murray

2024
This collection of essays and memoirs by a renowned American literary and jazz critic offe

The Light of the World

2024
"The Light of the World" is a deeply moving memoir about the author's life with her husban

White Girls

2024
"White Girls" is a collection of essays that explore the concept of "white girls" as the a

The Sellout

2024
This satirical novel follows the story of an African-American man living in a small, agrar

Ghost

2024
The book tells the story of a young boy named Castle Cranshaw, who is trying to escape his

The Coldest Winter Ever

2024
This novel tells the story of Winter Santiaga, the teenage daughter of a powerful drug lor

Brown Girl Dreaming

2024
This is a poignant memoir written in verse, detailing the author's childhood as an African

Brother, I'm Dying

2024
"Brother, I'm Dying" is a memoir that explores the author's life growing up in Haiti, her

The Farming of Bones

2024
"The Farming of Bones" is a historical fiction novel that revolves around the 1937 massacr