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African-American Interest
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African-American Fantasy/SF
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Authors & Titles
- Allen, Jeffrey Renard: Rails Under My Back

- The Anchor Book of Modern African Stories (edited by Nadeza Obradovic)

- Ansa, Tina McElroy: Baby of the Family

- Ansa, Tina McElroy: The Hand I Fan With

- Ansa, Tina McElroy: Ugly Ways

- Ansa, Tina McElroy: You Know Better

- Bailey-Williams, Nicole: A Little Piece of Sky

- Baisden, Michael: Men Cry in the Dark

- Baldwin, James: Another Country

- Baldwin, James: The Fire Next Time

- Baldwin, James: Go Tell it on the Mountain

- Ballard, Allen B.: Where I'm Bound

- Bambara, Toni Cade: The Salt Eaters

- Bambara, Toni Cade: These Bones Are Not My Child

- Bandele, Asha: Daughter

- Baraka, Amiri: The Fiction of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka

- Barnes, Steven: Lion's Blood series
- Lion's Blood

- Zulu Heart

- Beatty, Paul: Tuff

- Bell, Madison Smartt: Haitian Rebellion series
- All Souls' Rising

- Master of the Crossroads

- The Stone That the Builder Refused

- Berry, Bertice: Jim & Louella's Homemade Heart-Fix Remedy

- Berry, Bertice: Redemption Song

- Bohjalian, Chris: The Buffalo Soldier

- Bonilla, Juan: The Nubian Prince

- Brand, Dionne: At the Full and Change of the Moon

- Brice, Carleen: Orange Mint and Honey

- Briscoe, Connie: Big Girls Don't Cry

- Briscoe, Connie: A Long Way From Home

- Briscoe, Connie: P.G. County

- Briscoe, Connie: Sisters and Lovers

- Brown, Parry: The Shirt Off His Back

- Buckhanon, Kalisha: Conception

- Bullard, Linda McKeever: Shades of Justice

- Bunkley, Anita Richmond: Silent Wager

- Bunkley, Anita Richmond: Starlight Passage

- Bunkley, Anita Richmond: Wild Embers

- Bunn, Curtis: Baggage Check

- Burks, Cris: SilkyDreamGirl

- Burton, Rainelle: The Root Worker

- Busia, Akosua: The Seasons of Beento Blackbird

- Butler, Tajuana: Sorority Sisters

- Campbell, Bebe Moore: Brothers and Sisters

- Campbell, Bebe Moore: Singing in the Comeback Choir

- Campbell, Bebe Moore: Your Blues Ain't Like Mine

- Carter, Stephen L.: The Emperor of Ocean Park
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- Carter, Vincent O.: Such Sweet Thunder

- Channer, Colin: Satisfy My Soul

- Chase-Riboud, Barbara: Sally Hemings series
- Sally Hemings

- The President's Daughter

- Clair, Maxine: October Suite

- Clair, Maxine: Rattlebone

- Clarke, Austin: The Polished Hoe

- Clarke, Breena: River, Cross My Heart

- Clarke, George Elliott: George and Rue

- Cleage, Pearl: Seen It All and Done the Rest

- Cobb, William: Wings of Morning

- Coleman, Anita Scott: Unfinished Masterpiece: The Harlem Renaissance Fiction

- Cooper, Clarence Jr.: Black!

- Cooper, J. California: In Search of Satisfaction

- Cooper, J. California: Some People, Some Other Place

- Cooper, J. California: Some Soul to Keep

- Cooper, J. California: The Wake of the Wind

- Copeland, Sheila: Chocolate Star

- Dark Dreams (edited by Brandon Massey)

- Dash, Julie: Daughters of the Dust

- Datcher, Michael: Raising Fences

- Davis, Bridgett M.: Shifting Through Neutral

- DeBerry, Virginia & Grant, Donna: Pat & Gayle series
- Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made

- Gotta Keep On Tryin'

- Devoto, Pat Cunningham: Out of the Night That Covers Me

- Dickey, Eric Jerome: Chasing Destiny

- Dickey, Eric Jerome: Friends and Lovers

- Dickey, Eric Jerome: Liar's Game

- Dickey, Eric Jerome: Milk in My Coffee

- Dickey, Eric Jerome: Thieves' Paradise

- Diggs, Anita Doreen: A Mighty Love

- A Dollar and a Dream (edited by Carl Weber)

- Dry, Richard: Leaving

- Due, Tananarive: The Between

- Due, Tananarive: The Black Rose

- Durham, David Anthony: Gabriel's Story

- Durham, David Anthony: Walk Through Darkness

- Ebony Rising: Short Fiction of the Greater Harlem Renaissance Era (edited by Craig Gable)

- Edugyan, Esi: The Second Life of Samuel Tyne

- Southerland, Ellease: Let the Lion Eat Straw

- Ellis, Erika: Good Fences

- Ellison, Ralph: The Invisible Man

- Ellison, Ralph: Juneteenth

- Evaristo, Bernardine: The Emperor's Babe

- Fast, Howard: Freedom Road

- Feldman, Ellen: Scottsboro

- Files, Lolita: Blind Ambitions

- Files, Lolita: Child of God

- Files, Lolita: Sistahs series
- Scenes From a Sistah

- Getting to the Good Part

- Tastes Like Chicken

- Fleming, Charles: Sloan series
- The Ivory Coast

- After Havana

- Forstchen, William R.: We Look Like Men of War

- Forster, Gwynne: Blue From Down Deep

- Forster, Gwynne: When Twilight Comes

- Foster, Sharon Ewell: Passing By Samaria

- Frisby, Mister Mann: Blinking Red Light

- Gaines, Ernest J.: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

- Gaines, Ernest J.: A Gathering of Old Men

- Garnett, Ruth Miriam: Laelia

- George, Nelson: D Hunter series
- Night Work

- The Accidental Hunter

- George, Nelson: One Woman Short

- Goines, Donald: Black Gangster

- Goines, Donald: Black Girl Lost

- Goines, Donald: Daddy Cool

- Goines, Donald: Dopefiend

- Goines, Donald: Eldorado Red

- Goines, Donald: Inner City Hoodlum

- Goines, Donald: Kenyatta series

- Crime Partners

- Cry Revenge

- Death List

- Kenyatta's Escape

- Kenyatta's Last Hit

- Goines, Donald: Never Die Alone

- Goines, Donald: Street Players

- Goines, Donald: Swamp Man

- Goines, Donald: White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief

- Goines, Donald: Whoreson

- Golden, Marita: After

- Guidry, Jacqueline: The Year the Colored Sisters Came to Town

- Haley, Alex & Stevens, David: Queen

- Hall, Rachel Howzell: A Quiet Storm

- Hardy, James Earl: B-Boy Blues series
- B-Boy Blues

- 2nd Time Around

- If Only for One Nite

- The Day Eazy-E Died

- Love the One You're With

- Harris, E. Lynn: I Say a Little Prayer

- Harris, E. Lynn: Invisible Life series
(NOTE: Harris's characters tend to appear in various books, moving between series.)
- Invisible Life

- Just As I Am

- Abide With Me

- A Love of My Own

- Harris, E. Lynn: John Basil Henderson series
(NOTE: Harris's characters tend to appear in various books, moving between series.)
- Not a Day Goes By

- Any Way the Wind Blows
- If This World Were Mine

- Haulsey, Kuwana: Angel of Harlem

- Haynes, David: All American Dream Dolls

- Haynes, David: The Full Matilda

- Haynes, David: Live at Five

- Heffernan, William: Beulah Hill

- Hermes, Myrlin A.: Careful What You Wish For

- Hill, Donna: If I Could

- Hill, Donna: An Ordinary Woman

- Hill, Donna: Rhythms

- Hill, Mars: The Moaner's Bench

- Hill, Reginald: Joe Sixsmith series
- Blood Sympathy

- Born Guilty

- Killing the Lawyers

- Singing the Sadness

- Himes, Chester: Yesterday Will Make You Cry

- Hopkinson, Nalo: The Salt Roads

- Hughes, Langston: The Return of Simple

- Hunter, Travis: Strivers Row series
- The Hearts of Men

- Married But Still Looking

- Trouble Man

- Hurston, Zora Neale: Jonah's Gourd Vine

- Hurston, Zora Neale: Moses, Man of the Mountain

- Hurston, Zora Neale: Mules and Men

- Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God

- Jackson, Brenda: Perfect Timing

- Jackson, Brian Keith: The Queen of Harlem

- Jackson, Brian Keith: The View From Here

- Jackson, Brian Keith: Walking Through Mirrors

- Jackson, Sheneska: Blessings

- Jackson, Sheneska: Li'l Mama's Rules

- Japin, Arthur: The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi

- Jasper, Kenji: Dakota Grand

- Joe, Yolanda: The Hatwearer's Lesson

- Joe, Yolanda: He Say She Say

- Joe, Yolanda: My Fine Lady

- Johnson, Charles: Dr. King's Refrigerator and Other Bedtime Stories

- Johnson, Charles: Middle Passage

- Johnson, Charles: Soulcatcher and Other Stories

- Johnson, Dedra: Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow

- Johnson, Freddie Lee III: Bittersweet

- Johnson, Freddie Lee III: A Man Finds His Way

- Johnson, Guy: Tremain Family saga
- Standing at the Scratch Line

- Echoes of a Distant Summer

- Johnson, Mat: Drop

- Johnson, Mat: Hunting in Harlem

- Johnson, RM: Dating Games

- Johnson, RM: Harris series
- The Harris Men

- The Harris Family

- Johnson, Shawne: Getting Our Breath Back

- Jones, Edward P.: The Known World

- Jones, LeRoi: The Fiction of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka

- Jones, Tayari: The Untelling

- Kalam, Murad: Night Journey

- Karlin, Wayne: The Wished-For Country

- Katzenbach, John: Hart's War

- Kelley, William: The Sweet Summer

- Kincaid, Jamaica: Mr. Potter

- Lamar, Jake: Close to the Bone

- Lambright, Slim: The Justus Girls

- Lansens, Lori: Rush Home Road

- Lattany, Kristin: Breaking Away

- Lattany, Kristin Hunter: Kinfolks

- Lee, Don: Country of Origin

- Lewis, J.P. Sinclair: Nate Gordon series
- Buffalo Gordon

- Lewis, Sinclair: Kingsblood Royal

- Lincoln, Christine: Sap Rising

- Little, Benilde: Acting Out

- Little, Benilde: Good Hair

- Major, Devorah: Brown Glass Windows

- Major, Marcus: A Family Affair

- Major, Marcus: 4 Guys and Trouble

- Major, Marcus: Good Peoples

- Major, Marcus: A Man Most Worthy

- Mallette, Gloria: Distant Lover

- Mallette, Gloria: Shades of Jade

- Mansbach, Adam: Shackling Water

- Marshall, Paule: The Fisher King

- Martin, Lee: Quakertown

- Martin, Valerie: Property

- Mason, Felicia: Testimony

- McBride, James: Song Yet Sung

- McCarthy, Susan Carol: Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands

- McCunn, Ruthanne Lum: Wooden Fish Songs

- McFadden, Bernice: Sugar Lacey series
- Sugar

- This Bitter Earth

- McFadden, Bernice L.: Camilla's Roses

- McFadden, Bernice L.: Glorious

- McFadden, Bernice: Nowhere is a Place

- McFadden, Bernice: The Warmest December

- McFarland, Dennis: Prince Edward

- McGlothin, Victor: Autumn Leaves

- McGruder, Aaron: Birth of a Nation

- McKinney-Whetstone, Diane: Leaving Cecil Street

- McKinney-Whetstone, Diane: Tempest Rising

- McKnight, Reginald: He Sleeps

- McLarin, Kim: Meeting of the Waters

- McLarin, Kim: Taming it Down

- McMillan, Rosalyn: The Flip Side of Sin

- McMillan, Rosalyn: One Better

- McMillan, Terry: A Day Late and a Dollar Short

- Meriwether, Louise: Shadow Dancing

- Miller, Brenda Rhodes: The Laying on of Hands

- Miller, Karen E. Quinones: I'm Telling

- Miller, Karen E. Quinones: Passin'

- Miller, Karen E. Quinones: Satin Doll

- Miller, Karen E. Quinones: Using What You Got

- Millner, Denene & Chiles, Nick: Love Don't Live Here Anymore

- Mitchell, Sharon: Roxanne, Monique, Cynthia, & Gayle series
- Nothing But the Rent

- Near Perfect

- Mitchell, Sharon: Sheer Necessity

- Monroe, Mary: Annette Goode & Rhoda Nelson series
- God Don't Like Ugly

- God Still Don't Like Ugly

- God Don't Play

- God Ain't Blind

- God Ain't Through Yet

- Monroe, Mary: Gonna Lay Down My Burdens

- Monroe, Mary: In Sheep's Clothing

- Monroe, Mary: The Upper Room

- Moore, Christopher & Johnson, Pamela: Santa & Pete

- Morrison, Toni: A Mercy

- Mosley, Walter: RL's Dream

- Mosley, Walter: Socrates Fortlow series
- Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

- Walkin' the Dog

- The Right Mistake

- Mosley, Walter: The Tempest Tales

- Murray, Albert: Scooter series

- Train Whistle Guitar

- The Spyglass Tree

- The Seven League Boots

- The Magic Keys

- Mutabaruka, Mustafa: Seed

- Nailah, Anika: Free and Other Stories

- Neihart, Ben: Rough Amusements

- Nelson, Jill: A Sister's Spa series
- Sexual Healing

- Let's Get It On

- Nugent, Richard Bruce: Gentleman Jigger

- Nunez, Elizabeth: Discretion

- Odhiambo, David: Kipligat's Chance

- Ojikutu, Bayo: 47th Street Black

- O'Nan, Stewart: Everyday People

- Packer, ZZ: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

- Paker, Robert B.: Double Play

- Parsons, Alexander: Leaving Disneyland

- Pate, Alexs D.: West of Rehoboth

- Payne, Johnny: North of Patagonia

- Peacock, Nancy: Home Across the Road

- Perry, Phyllis Alesia: A Sunday in June

- Pesci, David: Amistad

- Peterson, Brian: Move Over, Girl

- Petry, Ann: The Street

- Pfarrer, Donald: Temple and Shipman

- Pharr, Robert Deane: Giveadamn Brown

- Pharr, Robert Deane: S.R.O.
- Phillips, Delores: The Darkest Child

- Porter, Connie: Imani All Mine

- Price-Thompson, Tracy: A Woman's Worth

- Randall, Alice: Pushkin and the Queen of Spades

- Randall, Alice: The Wind Done Gone

- Rawles, Nancy: Crawfish Dreams

- Ray, Francis: I Know Who Holds Tomorrow

- Ray, Francis: The Turning Point

- Reynolds, April: Knee-Deep in Wonder

- Rhodes, Jewell Parker: Douglass' Women

- Richardson, Brenda Lane: Chesapeake Song

- Ridley, John: A Conversation with the Mann

- Ridley, John: The Drift

- Robinson, C. Kelly: Between Brothers

- Robinson, C. Kelly: No More Mr. Nice Guy

- Roby, Kimberla Lawson: Changing Faces

- Roby, Kimberla Lawson: Here and Now

- Roby, Kimberla Lawson: It's a Thin Line

- Roby, Kimberla Lawson: A Taste of Reality

- Roy, Lucinda: The Hotel Alleluia

- Rutland, Eva: No Crystal Stair

- Sakers, Don: Dance for the Ivory Madonna

(NOTE: This title is part of the Scattered Worlds series, listed under Space Opera)
- Scott, Sophfronia: All I Need To Get By

- Shange, Ntozake: Liliane

- Sherman, Carlotte Watson: Killing Color

- Simone, Nea Anna: Mignon Samuels series
- Reaching Back

- Reborn

- Sinclair, April: Coffee Will Make You Black

- Sinclair, April: I Left My Back Door Open

- Smith, Andrea: Friday Night at Honeybee's

- Smith, Mary Burnett: Miss Ophelia

- Smith, Mary Burnett: Ring Around the Moon

- Souljah, Sister: The Coldest Winter Ever

- Souljah, Sister: Midnight: A Gangster Love Story

(NOTE: The main characteer of Midnight first appeared in The Coldest Winter Ever)
- Southgate, Martha: The Fall of Rome

- Spencer, Camika: Cubicles

- Spencer, Camika: When All Hell Breaks Loose

- Stetson, Jeff: Blood on the Leaves

- Stimpson, Michelle: Boaz Brown

- Story, Rosalyn: More Than You Know

- Straight, Susan: A Million Nightingales

- Stringer, Vickie M.: Pamela/Carmen series
- Let That Be the Reason

- Imagine This

- Tademy, Lalita: Cane River

- Tademy, Lalita: Red River

- Tervalon, Jervey: All the Trouble You Need

- Tervalon, Jervey: Dead Above Ground

- Tervalon, Jervey: Understand This

- Thomas, Michael: Man Gone Down

- Thomas, Trisha R.: Journey of Venus Johnston series (aka Nappily series)
- Nappily Ever After

- Would I Lie To You?

- Nappily Married

- Nappily Faithful

- Nappily in Bloom

- Un-Nappily in Love

- Touré: Soul City

- Trice, Dawn Turner: An Eighth of August

- Turner, Nikki: A Hustler's Wife

- Tyree, Omar: Just Say No!

- Tyree, Omar: Leslie

- Tyree, Omar: Sweet St. Louis

- Vernon, Olympia: Logic

- Waberi, Abdourahman A.: In the United States of Africa

- Walker, Margaret: Jubilee


- Walker, Persia: Harlem Redux

- Weber, Carl: The First Lady

- Weber, Carl: The Preacher's Son

- Wesley, Valerie Wilson: Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do

- West, Dorothy: The Wedding

- White, Franklin: Cup of Love

- White, Franklin: Fed Up with the Fanny

- Whitehead, Colson: John Henry Days

- Whitehead, Colson: Sag Harbor

- Willard, Tom: Black Sabre Chronicles
- The Buffalo Soldiers

- The Sable Doughboys

- Wings of Honor

- The Stone Ponies

- Sword of Valor

- Williams, Edward Christopher: When Washington Was In Vogue

- Williams, John A.: The Man Who Cried I Am

- Williams, Robyn: Preconceived Notions

- Wimberley, Darryl: The King of Colored Town

- Woods, Teri: Dutch series

- Dutch

- Dutch II: Angel's Revenge

- Woodson, Jacqueline: Autobiography of a Family Photo

- Wright, Richard: A Father's Law

- Wright, Richard: Lawd Today!

- Wright, Richard: Native Son

- Wright, Richard: Uncle Tom's Children

- Yamada, Amy: Bedtime Eyes

- Youngblood, Shay: Black Girl in Paris

- Zane: The Heat Seekers

- Zane: Shame On It All

- Zimler, Richard: Hunting Midnight

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