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The Color of WaterView verified book detailsTime of the LocustView verified book detailsThe IntuitionistIt is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female eleva...New PeopleView verified book detailsJuniper's Whitening / VictimeseView verified book detailsBy the Light of My Father's SmileView verified book detailsKill �Em and LeaveView verified book detailsThe Icarus GirlView verified book detailsLittle RotOne weekend.
The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city.
A party that goes awry.
A tangled web of sex and lies and corruption that leaves no on...ErasureView verified book detailsHell of a BookView verified book detailsThe Autobiography of an Ex-Colored ManView verified book detailsThe Late AmericansView verified book detailsPetThere are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with...Holler, ChildView verified book detailsThe UntellingView verified book detailsBitterBitter is an aspiring artist who has been invited to cultivate her talents at a special school in the town of Lucille. Surrounded by other c...Minor Black FiguresView verified book detailsI Am Not Sidney PoitierView verified book detailsSilver SparrowView verified book detailsJohn Henry DaysColson Whitehead’s triumphant novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died out...JazzView verified book detailsThe Death of Vivek OjiOne afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at h...Dr. NoView verified book detailsReal LifeView verified book detailsEvery Kiss a WarView verified book detailsMaster of PoisonsView verified book detailsPeople Like UsView verified book detailsParasol Against the AxeView verified book detailsParadiseView verified book detailsCome and Get ItView verified book detailsArchangels of FunkView verified book detailsSag HarborBenji Cooper is one of the few Black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag ...The Nickel BoysWhen Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, ...KinView verified book detailsPerishView verified book detailsDeacon King KongView verified book detailsFilthy AnimalsView verified book detailsA MercyView verified book detailsThe Bluest EyeView verified book detailsOrdinary PeopleView verified book detailsThis Close to OkayView verified book detailsMoon Witch, Spider KingView verified book detailsBelovedView verified book detailsCreatures of PassageView verified book detailsSo Much BlueView verified book detailsThe CrossingView verified book detailsCrook Manifestot’s 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has brok...What the Fireflies KnewView verified book detailsFriday BlackView verified book detailsThe FraudView verified book detailsPurple HibiscusView verified book detailsThe Book of Night WomenView verified book detailsMeridianView verified book detailsGingerbreadView verified book detailsChain-Gang All-StarsView verified book detailsThe Vanishing HalfView verified book detailsHalf of a Yellow SunView verified book detailsLeaving AtlantaView verified book detailsThe WonderView verified book detailsSong Yet SungView verified book detailsTelephoneView verified book detailsFreshwaterThe astonishing debut novel from the acclaimed bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, and ...Possessing the Secret of JoyView verified book detailsMiracle at St. AnnaView verified book detailsBlack Leopard, Red WolfView verified book detailsNightcrawlingView verified book detailsThe Underground RailroadCora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater ...SulaView verified book detailsBlack CakeView verified book detailsThe Good Lord BirdView verified book detailsAmericanahView verified book detailsSwing TimeView verified book detailsThe UnsettledView verified book detailsWhiskey & RibbonsView verified book detailsThe Wonder of All ThingsView verified book detailsThe ReturnedView verified book detailsThe Color PurpleView verified book detailsOn BeautyView verified book detailsThe TreesView verified book detailsYou Made a Fool of Death with Your BeautyFeyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again.
It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s al...Song of SolomonView verified book detailsNow Is the Time to Open Your HeartView verified book detailsRedwood and WildfireView verified book detailsA Violent WomanView verified book detailsDear SenthuranIn their critically acclaimed novels, Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by familial tensions, Igbo belief systems, ...JamesView verified book detailsDream CountView verified book detailsLoved OneAfter falling in love one summer in Barcelona, Gabe and Julia went their separate ways—she to college, and he to pursue his dream of becomin...Will Do Magic for Small ChangeView verified book detailsPeacesView verified book detailsAn American MarriageView verified book detailsHomeView verified book detailsGood DirtView verified book detailsWhite TeethAt the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie an...Half-Blown RoseView verified book detailsA House for AliceView verified book detailsTar BabyView verified book detailsMr FoxView verified book detailsBoy, Snow, BirdView verified book detailsThe MothersView verified book detailsNWView verified book detailsHarlem Shuffle"Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding...Redwood CourtView verified book details26aA hauntingly beautiful, wickedly funny, and devastatingly moving novel of innocence and dreams that announces the arrival of a major new tal...Apex Hides the HurtThe town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call it New Prospera; the mayor wants to re...The Twelve Tribes of HattieIn 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd, swept up by the tides of the Great Migration, flees Georgia and heads north. This “brutal, illumi...SuderView verified book detailsCaucasiaView verified book detailsGod Help the ChildView verified book detailsThe Heaven & Earth Grocery StoreView verified book detailsLoveView verified book detailsColored TelevisionView verified book detailsThe Temple of My FamiliarView verified book detailsSymptomaticView verified book detailsThe Third Life of Grange CopelandView verified book detailsContent Warning: EverythingIn their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi—award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The Death of Vivek Oji,and Dear Senthuran—imag...A Brief History of Seven KillingsView verified book detailsSuch a Fun AgeView verified book details