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New Releases Tagged "African American"

Sparks Fly
Cursed Daughters
Son of the Morning
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
James
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
King of Ashes
Razorblade Tears
The Personal Librarian
Finding Me
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
Horse
All the Sinners Bleed
Black Cake
This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2)
Good Dirt
The Scammer
The Wife Before
Can't Get Enough (Skyland, #3)
The Color Purple
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
The Bluest Eye
Between the World and Me
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
The Underground Railroad
Kindred
Invisible Man
The Hate U Give
The Help
Song of Solomon
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Vanishing Half
Sula
Please Kill Me by Legs McNeilJust Kids by Patti SmithChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanLife by Keith RichardsOur Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,446 books — 1,346 voters
Kindred by Octavia E. ButlerBeloved by Toni MorrisonTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Best Multi-Ethnic American Literature
296 books — 141 voters

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValleThe Girl from the Well by Rin ChupecoLovecraft Country by Matt RuffBleeding Violet by Dia ReevesAnother by Yukito Ayatsuji
Diverse Horror
277 books — 167 voters



Tayari Jones
I was ready to get this show on the road, creating a new generation with an updated set of rules and regulations. Not that there was anything wrong with the way either one of us was brought up, but still, the world is changing, so the way you bring up kids had to change, too. Part of my plan was to never one time mention picking cotton. My parents always talked about either real cotton or the idea of it. White people say, 'It beats digging a ditch'; black people say, 'It beats picking cotton.' ...more
Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

Ralph Ellison
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids -- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass.When they approach me they see only my surroundings ...more
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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