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Ernest Gaines
A Lesson Before Dying
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
A Gathering of Old Men
Bloodline
Catherine Carmier
In My Father's House
Cristina Garcia
The Aguero Sisters
Dreaming in Cuban - A Novel
Henry Louis Gates
Africana
Wonders of the African World
Colored People
The Classic Slave Narratives
Black Literature and Literary Theory
Coming Through the Fire - Surviving Race and Place in America
Figures in Black - Words, Signs and the 'Racial' Self
The Future of the Race
Gloria Naylor - Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Amistad Literary)
Langston Hughes - Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Amistad Literary)
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
Loose Canons - Notes on the Culture Wars
Pioneers of the Black Atlantic - Five Slave Narratives from the Enlightenment, 1772-1815
Richard Wright - Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Amistad Literary)
The Signifying Monkey - A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex - Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
Aliona L. Gibson
For Black Writers
Nappy : Growing Up Black and Female in America
Monique Gilmore-Scott
Ties that Bind Way Down Deep
Nikki Giovanni
Love Poems
The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni
Blues : For All the Changes
Racism 101
Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People
Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgement
Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
Gemini - An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty Five Years of Being a Black Poet
The Genie in the Jar
Grand Fathers - Reminiscences, Poems, Recipes and Photos of the Keepers of Our Traditions
Grand Mothers - Poems Reminiscences, and Short Stories About the Keepers of Our Traditions
My House Poems
Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate - Looking at the Harlem Renaissance Through Poems
Spin a Soft Black Song
The Sun Is So Quiet - Poems
Those Who Ride the Night Winds
The Women and the Men
Black Feeling, Black Talk
Donald Goines
Black Gangster
Whoreson : The Story of a Ghetto Pimp
Black Girl Lost
Crime Partners
Cry Revenge
Daddy Cool
Death List
Dopefiend
Inner City Hoodlum
Kenyatta's Escape
Marita Golden
The Edge of Heaven
A Miracle Every Day : Triumph and Transformation in the Lives of Single Mothers
Skin Deep : Black Women & White Women Write About Race
A Woman's Place
Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues : Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex
Jewelle Gomez
The Gilda Stories : A Novel
Don't Explain : Short Fiction
Forty-Three Septembers : Essays
Oral Tradition : Selected Poems Old & New
Best Lesbian Erotica 1997 (Annual)
Theresa J. Gonsalves > Visit webpage
Obsessions: The Shocking True Story of the Real Billie Jean in Michael Jackson's Life and the Obsession That Almost Killed Her!
 
Sandra Lee Gould
Faraday's Popcorn Factory
Tracey Grant
Hellified
Carolyn Gray
The Black Woman’s Guide to Beautiful, Healthier Hair in 6 Weeks! The 2003 Edition
 
Marlon Green
Butter
 
Robert Greer
Limited Time
The Devil's Backbone
The Devil's Red Nickel
The Devil's Hatband
Lois Griffith
Action : The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival
Among Others : A Novel
Linda Dominique Grosvenor
Sometimes I Cry
S. James Guitard
Chocolate Thoughts: Short Stories, Essays and Poetry from the Hearts and Minds of Real Black Men
Rosa Guy
The Friends
Disappearance
Friends
H
Alex Haley
Roots
Mama Flora's Family
Patricia Haley-Brown
Nobody's Perfect
Reginald L. Hall
Memoir: Delaware County Prison
 
Hallema
Mass Deception
 
P. L. Hampton 
Picking Chrysanthemum
 
Nikiel N. Hannah
Concrete Eyes
Gary Hardwick
Cold Medina
The Color of Justice
Double Dead
Supreme Justice : A Novel of Suspense
James Earl Hardy
2nd Time Around
B-Boy Blues : A Seriously Sexy, Fiercely Funny, Black-On-Black Love Story
Boyz II Men
If Only for One Nite
Back 2 Back : An Anthology Featuring the Best-Sellers B-Boy Blues and 2nd Time Around
E. Lynn Harris
Abide With Me
Invisible Life
And This Too Shall Pass - A Novel
If This World Were Mine - A Novel
Just As I Am - A Novel
Not a Day Goes by
Charles W. Harvey
When Dogs Bark
David Haynes
All American Dream Dolls
Heathens - A Novel
Live at Five
Somebody Else's Mama
Right by My Side
Angela Henry 
The Pleasure of His Company: A Kendra Clayton Mystery
 
Myrlin Hermes
Careful What You Wish for - A Novel
Kyra E. Hicks, Cuesta Ray Benberry
Black Threads: An African American Quilting Sourcebook
C. Highsmith-Hooks
The Soul of a Black Woman: From a Whisper to a Shout
 
Oscar Hijuelos
Empress of the Splendid Season
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Cool Salsa - Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States
The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
Mr. Ives' Christmas - A Novel
Our House in the Last World - A Novel
Mars Hill
The Moaner's Bench
Shandra Hill
Actions Speak Louder
Chester Himes
All Shot Up
If He Hollers Let Him Go - A Novel
The Big Gold Dream
Blind Man With a Pistol
The Collected Stories of Chester Himes
Cotton Comes to Harlem
The End of a Primitive (Old School Books)
The Heat's on
My Life of Absurdity - The Autobiography of Chester Himes
Pinktoes - A Novel
A Rage in Harlem
The Real Cool Killers
Run Man Run
The Third Generation
Yesterday Will Make You Cry
bell hooks
All About Love - New Visions
Teaching to Transgress - Education As the Practice of Freedom
Ain't I A Woman - Black Women and Feminism
Art on My Mind - Visual Politics
Black Looks - Race and Representation
Bone Black - Memories of Girlhood
Breaking Bread - Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
Feminist Theory from Margin to Center
Happy to Be Nappy
Killing Rage - Ending Racism
Outlaw Culture - Resisting Representations
Reel to Real - Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies
Remembered Rapture - The Writer at Work
Sisters of the Yam - Black Women and Self-Recovery
Talking Back - Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
A Woman's Mourning Song
Nalo Hopkinson
Brown Girl in the Ring
Midnight Robber
Vicki Hubbard
Stories From The Heart
Langston Hughes
The Best of Simple
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics)
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers; The Classic Anthology from 1899 to 1967
The Big Sea - An Autobiography (American Century)
Black Misery (The Iona and Peter Opie Library of Children's Literature)
Black Magic - A Pictorial History of the African-American in the Performing Arts
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
I Wonder As I Wander - An Autobiographical Journey (American Century)
The Life of Langston Hughes - 1902-1941 - I Too, Sing America
The Life of Langston Hughes, 1941-1967 - I Dream a World
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Perennial Classic)
Dust Tracks on a Road
The Complete Stories
Go Gator and Muddy the Water- Writings by Zora Neale Hurston from
Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings - Mules and Men, Tell My Horse, Dust Tracks on a Road, Selected Articles
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing ... and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive
Jonah's Gourd Vine
Jump at De Sun - The Story of Zora Neale Hurston
Mules and Men
Moses, Man of the Mountain
Seraph on the Suwanee - A Novel
Spunk - Three Tales
The Sanctified Church
Tell My Horse - Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
Their Eyes Were Watching God
I
Miranda Ifedigbo
Sexual Transgressions: A Chain of Events
 
J
Brian Keith Jackson
The View from Here
Walking Through Mirrors
M.G. Jackson
The Brixton Experiment
Sheneska Jackson
Southern Comfort
Caught Up in the Rapture - A Novel
Blessings
Li'L Mama's Rules
T. D. Jakes
Maximize the Moment - God's Action Plan for Your Life
The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord
Anointing Fall on Me
Can You Stand to Be Blessed?
Daddy Loves His Girls
Harvest
Help I'm Raising My Children Alone
Have You Recevied Since You Believed
His Lady - Sacred Promises for God's Woman
Lay Aside the Weight
It is Not Natural to Live Holy, It's Spiritual
Loose That Man & Let Him Go!
Naked and Not Ashamed - We'Ve Been Afraid to Reveal What God Longs to Heal
Woman Thou Art Loosed Bible
Edward Nubian James
A Breath Away From Sleep…
Roland S. Jefferson
Damaged Goods
The School on 103rd Street
Omari Jeremiah
Paperboy
 
Jihad
Wake Up Everybody
Yolanda Joe
He Say, She Say
Bebe's by Golly Wow
This Just in
G. Anita Johnson
Journeys: A Collection of Lyric and Acrostic Poems
 
Charles Johnson
Middle Passage
Dreamer - A Novel
Africans in America - America's Journey Through Slavery
Being and Race - Black Writing Since 1970
Black Men Speaking
Guy Johnson
Standing at the Scratch Line
R.M. Johnson
The Harris Men
Father Found
Lorraine Johnson-Coleman
The Wisdoms of the Baobab Tree
Just Plain Folks
Margaret Johnson-Hodge
A New Day
The Real Deal
Butterscotch Blues
Warm Hands
Gayl Jones
The Healing
Mosquito
Corregidora
Eva's Man
Song for Anninho
Herb Jordan
Motown in Love Lyrics from the Golden Era
 
June Jordan
Affirmative Acts - Political Essays
Haruko-Love Poems - Love Poems
Kimako's Story
Kissing God Goodbye - Poems, 1991-1997
Living Room
Naming Our Destiny - New and Selected Poems
June Jordan's Poetry for the People - A Revolutionary Blueprint
Soldier- A Poet's Childhood
Joylynn M. Jossel
Please Tell Me If The Grass Is Greener 
Joy
Dollar Bill
 
William July II
Understanding the Tin Man - Why So Many Men Avoid Intimacy
Brothers, Lust and Love - Thoughts on Manhood, Sex and Romance
K
Agymah Kamau
Pictures of a Dying Man
Flickering Shadows
Janis F. Kearney
Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memior
 
Jamaica Kincaid
My Garden Book
Lucy
Annie John
At the Bottom of the River
The Autobiography of My Mother
Generations of Women - In Their Own Words
Jamaica Kincaid - A Critical Companion
My Brother
My Favorite Plant - Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love
Ursula Inga Kindred & Mirranda Guerin-Williams
Sister Gumbo: Life, Sex and More Sex 
Cyd Kirksey
Sydney
Yusef Komunyakaa
Talking Dirty to the Gods
Neon Vernacular - New and Selected Poems...
Thieves of Paradise
Dien Cai Dau
Magic City
Blue Notes
L
Joyce A. Ladner
The Ties That Bind - Timeless Values for African American Families
Adolescence and Poverty - Challenge for the 1990's
Tomorrow's Tomorrow - The Black Woman
Death of White Sociology
Jake Lamar
Close to the Bone - A Novel
Bourgeois Blues - An American Memoir
The Last Integrationist
The Last Poets
The Last Poets - Vibes from the Scribes Selected Poems
On a Mission - The Last Poets - Selected Poems and a Hostory of the Last Poets
Queen Latifah
Ladies First - Revelations of a Strong Woman
Kristan Lattany
Do Unto Others
The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou
Kinfolks
Anita Lawson
The Mating Game
Helen Elaine Lee
The Serpent's Gift
Water Marked
Benilde Little
Good Hair
The Itch
Dorothy Elizabeth Love
And Then Came You
Harrell & Dorothy Love
Somebody Ought to Testify
 
Glenville Lovell
Fire in the Canes
Song of Night
Audre Lorde
Sister Outsider - Essays and Speeches
The Black Unicorn - Poems
A Burst of Light
The Cancer Journals
Zami - A New Spelling of My Name (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Coal
Lesbian Travels - A Literary Companion
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance - Poems 1987-1992
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
Our Dead Behind Us - Poems
Sister Outsider - Essays and Speeches
Undersong - Chosen Poems Old and New
M
Haki Madhubuti
Black Men - Obsolete, Single, Dangerous
Claiming Earth - Race, Rage, Rape, Redemption
Groundwork - New and Selected Poems of Don L. Lee-Haki R. Madhubuti from 1966-1996
Confusion by Any Other Name - Essays Exploring the Negative Impact of 'the Blackman's Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman'
Enemies - The Clash of Races
Groundwork - New and Selected Poems of Don L. Lee-Haki R. Madhubuti from 1966-1996
Heartlove - Wedding and Love Poems
Kellie Magnus
Little Lion Goes to School
 
Marcus Major
Good Peoples
Anika Malone
10 Minutes Past Too Late
Gabrial Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
One Hundred Years of Solitude
News of a Kidnapping
Of Love and Other Demons
Strange Pilgrims - Twelve Stories
A Study Guide to Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude
Paule Marshall
Brown Girl, Brownstones
Daughters
Praisesong for the Widow
The Chosen Place, the Timeless People
The Fiction of Paule Marshall - Reconstructions of History, Culture, and Gender
Praisesong for the Widow
Brandon Massey
Dark Dreams: A Collection of Horror and Suspense by Black Writers
Dark Corner
Thunderland
James McBride
The Color of Water - A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Bernice McFadden
Camilla's Roses
Loving Donovan
This Bitter Earth
Sugar
Claude McKay
Home to Harlem
Banana Bottom
Banjo - A Story Without a Plot
Claude McKay - A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity
Catherine McKinley
Afrekete - An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing
The Book of Sarahs
Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Blues Dancing
Tumbling
Tempest Rising
Kim McLarin
Taming It Down
Barry S. McLeod
Men-Or-Pause
Rosalyn McMillan
The Flip Side of Sin
Blue Collar Blues
Knowing
One Better
Terry McMillan
Breaking Ice
Mama
Disappearing Acts
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Waiting to Exhale
Tony Medina
No Noose Is Good Noose
Penny Micklebury
Night Songs - A Gianna Maglione Mystery
One Must Wait
Where to Choose - A Carol Ann Gibson Mystery
Keeping Secrets- A Gianna Maglione Mystery
E. Ethelbert Miller
How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love
In Search of Color Everywhere - A Collection of African-American Poetry
Where Are the Love Poems for Dictators
Whispers, Secrets and Promises
Fathering Words
Karen E. Quinones Miller (Click here to visit Karen's Profile Page)
Satin Doll: A Novel
Denene Millner
The Angry Black Woman’s Guide to Life (co-authored w/Angela Burt-Murray and Mitzi Miller)
The Sistahs' Rules - Secrets for Meeting, Getting, and Keeping a Good Black Man
What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know - The Real Deal on Love and Relationships
What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know About Sex - The Real Deal on Passion, Loving, and Intimacy
Evangeline M. Mitchell
The African American Pre-Law School Advice Guide: Things You Really Need to Know Before Applying to Law School
Gail Marie Mitchell
Cling to Me
 
Jessica Care Moore
The Words Don't Fit in My Mouth
Joan Morgan
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost - My Life as A Hip Hop Feminist
Tracie Morris
Intermission
Toni Morrison
Paradise
Beloved
The Big Box
Birth of a Nation'Hood - Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case
The Bluest Eye
Conversations With Toni Morrison
Dangerous Freedom - Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison's Novels
Jazz
Playing in the Dark - Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Sula
Song of Solomon
Walter Mosley
What Next: A Memior Toward World Peace
Workin' on the Chain Gang - Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History
Walkin' the Dog
Blue Light
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Black Betty
Black Genius- African American Solutions to African American
Devil in a Blue Dress
Gone Fishin
A Little Yellow Dog
Red Death
RL's Dream
White Butterfly
Elijah Muhammad
The Fall of America
The Messenger - The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad
Message to the Blackman in America
Blood-Bath - The True Teaching of Malcolm X 'Seldom Told'
Albert Murray
The Omni-Americans - Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy
Train Whistle Guitar
The Blue Devils of Nada - A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement
Conversations With Albert Murray
Good Morning Blues - The Autobiography of Count Basie
The Hero and the Blues
The Seven League Boots
The Spyglass Tree
Stomping the Blues
Victoria Christopher Murray
Temptation
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