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Reading Lists: Black Voices List

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African American Fiction Reading List

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Call Number: PR9387.9 .A34354 A44 2013b
ISBN: 0307455920
Publication Date: 2014-03-04
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
Call Number: PS3557 .A36 A87 1972
ISBN: 0553263579
Publication Date: 1982-07-01
Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers
Call Number: JUV PS3563 .Y48 Z47 2005
ISBN: 9780060295233
Publication Date: 2001-05-08
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS3563 .O8749 B4 1988b
ISBN: 0452264464
Publication Date: 1988-09-01
Black Boy (American Hunger) by Richard Wright; Jerry W. Ward (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3545 .R815 Z5 1945
ISBN: 0060929782
Publication Date: 1998-08-05
Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton; Tiffany D. Jackson; Nic Stone; Angie Thomas; Ashley Woodfolk; Nicola Yoon
Call Number: Juv. PZ5 .B499 2021
ISBN: 9780063088092
Publication Date: 2021-06-22
The Blues Singers: Ten Who Rocked the World by Julius Lester
Call Number: JUV ML3929 .L47 2001
ISBN: 0786824050
Publication Date: 2001-05-01
The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts
Call Number: PS1449 .C673 B66 2003
ISBN: 0446690295
Publication Date: 2003-04-01
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes; Christopher Myers (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juv. PZ7 .G88429 Br 2003
ISBN: 0803725698
Publication Date: 2001-12-31
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
Call Number: PS3554 .A5815 Z46 2007
ISBN: 1400041155
Publication Date: 2007-09-04
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Call Number: Juv. PS3573 .O64524 Z46 2014
ISBN: 9780399252518
Publication Date: 2014-08-28
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Call Number: Juv. PZ7 .C94137 Bu 2000
ISBN: 9780439219419
Publication Date: 1999-10-01
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Call Number: PS3573 .A425 C6 1982
ISBN: 0151191530
Publication Date: 1982-06-01
Coming on Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson; E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
Call Number: JUV PZ7 .W868 Co 2005
ISBN: 9780399237485
Publication Date: 2004-10-07
Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
Call Number: JUV PZ7 .D78325 Cop 2006
ISBN: 0689821816
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Country Place by Ann Petry
Call Number: PS3531 .E933 C68 1971
ISBN: 0911860045
Publication Date: 1971-01-01
Crown by Derrick Barnes; Gordon C. James (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juv. PZ7 .B26154 Cro 2017
ISBN: 9781572842243
Publication Date: 2017-10-10
A Day Late and a Dollar Short by Terry McMillan
Call Number: PS3563 .C3868 D3 2001b
ISBN: 0451204948
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Day of Tears by Julius Lester
Call Number: Juv. PZ7 .L5629 Da 2005
ISBN: 0786804904
Publication Date: 2005-04-13
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley; Kevin Ryan (Editor)
Call Number: PS3563 .O88456 D48 1995
ISBN: 0671511424
Publication Date: 1995-10-01
Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston; Maya Angelou (Foreword by)
Call Number: PS3515 .U789 Z5 1991
ISBN: 0060552840
Publication Date: 1991-01-01
Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney
Call Number: PZ7.1 .G6235 Ex 2021
ISBN: 9780063024793
Publication Date: 2021-05-04
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Call Number: JUV PZ7 .M992 Fal 2008
ISBN: 0590409433
Publication Date: 1989-05-01
Family by J. California Cooper
Call Number: PS3553 .O5874 F36 1991
ISBN: 0385411715
Publication Date: 1990-12-01
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
Call Number: Juv. PZ7 .W868 Fe 2007
ISBN: 9780399239892
Publication Date: 2007-03-01
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
Call Number: PS3569 .H3324 F6 1989
ISBN: 0020248911
Publication Date: 1989-04-24
Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper
Call Number: Juv. PZ7 .D78325 Fo 1998
ISBN: 0689818513
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Freedom Soup by Tami Charles; Jacqueline Alcántara (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juv. PZ7.1 .C4915 Fr 2019
ISBN: 9780763689773
Publication Date: 2019-12-10
Game by Walter Dean Myers
Call Number: JUV PZ7 .M992 Gam 2008
ISBN: 0060582952
Publication Date: 2008-01-29
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS3563 .O8749 G63 2015
ISBN: 0307594173
Publication Date: 2015-04-21
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Call Number: PS3552 .A45 G62 1970
ISBN: 9780440330073
Publication Date: 1985-11-10
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry; Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juv. PZ7.1 .C49765 Hai 2019
ISBN: 9780525553366
Publication Date: 2019-05-14
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Call Number: Juv. PZ7.1 .T448 Hat 2017
ISBN: 9780062498533
Publication Date: 2017-02-28
Heaven by Angela Johnson
Call Number: JUV PZ7 .J629 He 1998
ISBN: 0689822294
Publication Date: 1998-09-01
Home by Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS3563 .O8749 H66 2012
ISBN: 0307594165
Publication Date: 2012-05-08
Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe
Call Number: PR9387.9 .A3 Z467 2001
ISBN: 0385721331
Publication Date: 2001-09-18
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Call Number: PS3607 .Y37 H66 2016
ISBN: 9781101947135
Publication Date: 2016-06-07
Home to Harlem by Claude McKay; Wayne F. Cooper (Other)
Call Number: PS3525 .A24785 H65 1973
ISBN: 1555530249
Publication Date: 1987-11-30
How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan
Call Number: PS3563 .C3868 H68 1996
ISBN: 0670869902
Publication Date: 1996-05-01
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Call Number: PS3551 .N464 Z467 1985
ISBN: 0553256157
Publication Date: 1983-04-01
The Interruption of Everything by Terry McMillan
Call Number: PS3563 .C3868 I58 2005
ISBN: 0670031445
Publication Date: 2005-07-19
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Call Number: PS3555 .L625 I59 1952a
ISBN: 0141184426
Publication Date: 1952
Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juv. PZ7.1 .C6728 Jab 2017
ISBN: 9780763678388
Publication Date: 2017-05-09
Jubilee by Margaret Walker
Call Number: PS3573 .A469 J82 1966
ISBN: 0395924952
Publication Date: 1999-01-21
The Land by Mildred D. Taylor; Max Ginsburg (Illustrator)
Call Number: JUV PZ7 .T21723 Lan 2001
ISBN: 0803719507
Publication Date: 2001-09-01
Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor
Call Number: JUV PZ7 .T21723 Le 1991
ISBN: 0440845300
Publication Date: 1991
Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers
Call Number: JUV PZ7 .M992 Lo 2010
ISBN: 0061214809
Publication Date: 2010-02-02
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Call Number: Juv. PZ7.5 .R49 Lon 2017, Juvenile 3rd Floor
ISBN: 9781481438254
Publication Date: 2017-10-24
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
Call Number: PR9275 .A583 L83 1991
ISBN: 0452266777
Publication Date: 1991-10-31
Mama by Terry McMillan
Call Number: PS3563 .C3868 M3 1994
ISBN: 9780552994804
Publication Date: 1994
Mom and Me and Mom by Maya Angelou
Call Number: PS3551 .N464 Z46 2013
ISBN: 1400066115
Publication Date: 2013-04-02
Native Son by Richard Wright
Call Number: PS3545 .R815 N37 1940
ISBN: 0060812494
Publication Date: 1993-02-01
Now That I've Found You by Kristina Forest
Call Number: Juv. PZ7.1 .F674 No 2020
ISBN: 9781250295026
Publication Date: 2020-08-25
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
Call Number: Juv. PZ7 .W32868 Pi 2017
ISBN: 9781681191058
Publication Date: 2017-02-14
Push by Sapphire
Call Number: PS3569 .A63 P87 1997
ISBN: 0679766758
Publication Date: 1997-04-29
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Call Number: PS3515 .A515 R3 1966
ISBN: 0375508333
Publication Date: 2002-05-07
Raven in a Dove House by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Call Number: JUV PZ7 .P6333 Rav 1998
ISBN: 0152014616
Publication Date: 1998-04-01
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Call Number: Juv. PZ7 .T21723 Ro 1991
ISBN: 9780140348934
Publication Date: 1991-10-01
Roots by Alex Haley
Call Number: E185.97 .H24 A33
ISBN: 0440174643
Publication Date: 1980-10-15
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: PS3573 .H4768 S35 2010
ISBN: 0307455165
Publication Date: 2010-06-15
Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo by Ntozake Shange
Call Number: PS3569 .H3324 S2 1982
ISBN: 0312699719
Publication Date: 1982-08-01
The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake
Call Number: JUV PZ7 .F59816 Sk 2000
ISBN: 0786813075
Publication Date: 2000-01-03
Slam! by Walter Dean Myers
Call Number: JUV PZ7 .M992 Sl 1996
ISBN: 0590486675
Publication Date: 1996-11-01
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Call Number: PR6112 .E889 S63 2005
ISBN: 0312424671
Publication Date: 2005-04-01
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
Call Number: F2035 .K56 2000
ISBN: 0374527075
Publication Date: 2000-04-28
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
Call Number: E185.5 .D81 1961
ISBN: 0486280411
Publication Date: 1994-05-20
The Terrible Twos by Ishmael Reed
Call Number: PS3568 .E365 T4 1982
ISBN: 0312791992
Publication Date: 1982-05-01
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Mary Helen Washington (Foreword by)
Call Number: PS3515 .U789 T639 1990
ISBN: 0060916508
Publication Date: 1900-01-01
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Call Number: PR9387.9 .A3 T44 1991
ISBN: 0449208109
Publication Date: 1985-01-01
This Strange New Feeling by Julius Lester
Call Number: JUV PZ7 .L5629 Th 1981
ISBN: 0590440470
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester; Tom Feelings (Illustrator)
Call Number: JUV E444 .L47 1968
ISBN: 0141310014
Publication Date: 2000-12-18
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Call Number: Juv. PZ7 .C94137 Wat 1998
ISBN: 0590690140
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes
Call Number: PS3515 .U274 W39 1934
ISBN: 0679728171
Publication Date: 1990-09-12
When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk
Call Number: Juv. PZ7.1 .W657 Wh 2019
ISBN: 9781524715915
Publication Date: 2020-03-10
The Youngest Marcher by Cynthia Levinson; Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juv. F334 .B653 H465 2017
ISBN: 9781481400701
Publication Date: 2017-01-17

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