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African-American Interest
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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>
- 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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