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This selected Literature List includes the following categories:
- ANTHOLOGIES
- ESSAYS
- LITERARY BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- FICTION (Genres: Novels, Mysteries, Science Fiction, Short Stories)
- SHORT STORIES
- POETRY
ANTHOLOGIES (Fiction)
African Heritage: An Anthology of Black African Personality and Culture, Jacob Drachler, Editor
American Negro Folktales, Richard M. Dorson, Editor
Book of Negro Folklore, Langston Hughes & Arna Bontemps, Editors
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Fiction, Terry McMillan, Editor
Broken Utterances: A Selected Anthology of 19th Century Black Women's Social Thought, Michelle Diane Wright, Editor
Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writers, Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris, Editors
I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like, Rebecca Carroll, Editor
Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women, 1850-1960, Mary Helen Washington, Editor
ESSAYS
Elizabeth Alexander The Black Interior
James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son
Stanley Crouch Notes of a Hanging Judge
Gerald Early, Series Editor and Debra J. Dickerson, Guest Editor
Best African American Essays 2009
June Jordan Technical Difficulties
Audre Lorde Zami, Sister Outsider, Undersong SOLD
Ishmael Reed Shrovetide in Old New Orleans
LITERARY AUTOBIOGRAPHY / BIOGRAPHY
Maya Angelou Gather Together in My Name
James Baldwin Baldwin’s Harlem by Herb Boyd
Ralph Ellison Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad
Moss Hart Act One: An Autobiography
Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on a Road
Richard Wright
Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth
Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius by Margaret Walker
LITERARY CRITICISM
Mari Evans Black Women Writers 1950-1980
Donald B. Gibson, Editor
Five Black Writers: Essays on Wright, Ellison
Baldwin, Hughes and LeRoi Jones
Genevieve Fabre and Robert O'Meally, Editors
History & Memory in African American Culture SOLD
Michael Popkin Modern Black Writers, Library of Literary Criticism
Alan Dundes, Editor
Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in
the Interpretation of African American Folklore SOLD
Edward Margolies, Editor
Native Sons: A Critical Study of Twentieth Century
Negro American Authors
Addison Gayle
The Way of the New World:
The Black Novelist in America
FICTION
NOVELS
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart Tina McElroy Ansa You Know Better
James Baldwin Another Country
Bebe Moore Campbell Brothers and Sisters
Barbara Chase-Riboud Sally Hemings
Buchi Emecheta
The Family: A Novel
The Joys of Motherhood
Chester Himes If He Hollers Let Him Go
Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God
Charles Johnson Middle Passage
Melvin Kelley A Different Drummer
Paule Marshall The Chosen Place, The Timeless People
Terry McMillan
Disappearing Acts
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Walter Mosley
Blonde Faith
RL's Dream
Gloria Naylor
Mama Day
The Men of Brewster Place
Ann Petry The Narrows
Caryl Phillips Crossing the River
Dorothy Porter The Living is Easy
Ishmael Reed Mumbo Jumbo SOLD
Brent Wade Company Man
Alice Walker
Meridian
The Third Life of Grange Copeland
John Edgar Wideman Reuben
John Williams The Man Who Cried I Am
Harriet E. Wilson Our Nig
Richard Wright Native Son
MYSTERIES
Stephen Carter New England White
The Emperor of Ocean Park
Walter Mosley
Gone Fishin'
SCIENCE FICTION
Octavia E. Butler Mind of My Mind SOLD
Parable of the Sower
SHORT STORIES
Uwem Akpan Say You're One of Them J. California Cooper The Matter is Life
Langston Hughes & Gloria Naylor, Editors
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers 1967-1995
Richard Wright Uncle Tom’s Children
POETRY
ANTHOLOGIES
Dudley Randall, Editor The Black Poets: A New AnthologyNaomi Long Madgett Adam of Ife
Arnold Rampersad
The Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry
POETS
Elizabeth Alexander The Venus Hottentot Maya Angelou
I Shall Not Be Moved
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie
Gwendolyn Brooks Selected Poems
Lucille Clifton Good Woman
Sterling Brown
The Collected Poems of Sterling Brown / Michael Harper, Ed.
Henry Dumas Knees of a Natural Man
Nikki Giovanni Black Feeling Black Talk Black Judgement
James Weldon Johnson God's Trombones SOLD
Alice Walker
Her Blue Body
Horses Make A Landscape Look More Beautiful SOLD
