175 Books Published by Amistad an Imprint of HarperCollins

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The Church Builder: A Novel (The Church Builder Series)
by A.L. Shields

Alek: My Life from Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel
by Alek Wek

Harriet Tubman: Conductor On The Underground Railroad
by Ann Petry

A Hard Road To Glory: A History Of The African American Athlete: Vol 3 1946-Present
by Arthur Ashe

Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother’s Story
by asha bandele

Black Water Rising: A Novel (Jay Porter Series)
by Attica Locke

The Polished Hoe
by Austin Clarke

Skin Deep: The Story of Black Models in America and Abroad
by Barbara Summers

Nouvelle Soul: Short Stories
by Barbara Summers

The Price You Pay
by Barbara Summers

America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great
by Ben Carson

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
by Ben Carson

Take The Risk: Learning To Identify, Choose, And Live With Acceptable Risk
by Ben Carson

The Big Picture
by Ben Carson

Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential For Excellence
by Ben Carson

Ben Carson
by Ben Carson

Movin’ Up, Pop Gordy Tells His Story
by Berry Gordy

Heart of Gold
by Beverly Jenkins

Destiny's Surrender
by Beverly Jenkins

Dark Girls
by Bill Duke and Shelia P. Moses

Making Rent in Bed-Stuy: A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City
by Brandon Harris

A Brother’s Honor (The Grangers)
by Brenda Jackson

Shifting Through Neutral
by Bridgett M. Davis

High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
by Carl Hart

Brick by Brick
by Charles R. Smith Jr.

Absolutely Nothing To Get Alarmed About: The Complete Novels Of Charles Wright
by Charles Wright

My Holy Bible For African-American Children, Kjv
by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson

Start Where You Are: Life Lessons In Getting From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be
by Chris Gardner and Mim E. Rivas

The Pursuit of Happyness
by Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe

Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley
by Christopher John Farley

Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped
by Cissy Houston

Count on Your Fingers African Style
by Claudia Zaslavsky

It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership
by Colin Powell

One Day It'll All Make Sense
by Common

Michelle Obama: Meet The First Lady
by David Bergen Brophy

A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress
by David Levering Lewis

Obama: From Promise to Power
by David Mendell

The Air Between Us: A Novel
by Deborah Johnson

What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know About Sex: The Real Deal On Passion, Loving, And Intimacy
by Denene Millner and Nick Chiles

The Vow: A Novel
by Denene Millner, Angela Burt-Murray and Mitzi Miller

Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
by Dick Gregory

God Loves Haiti: A Novel
by Dimitry Elias Leger

Balm: A Novel
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Wench: A Novel
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories
by Edward P. Jones

The Known World
by Edward P. Jones

The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons
by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

Let The Lion Eat Straw
by Ellease Southerland

Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race In A Race-Obsessed World
by Ellis Cose

A Man’s World: How Real Is Male Privilege - And How High Is Its Price?
by Ellis Cose

The Rage Of A Privileged Class: Why Are Middle-Class Blacks Angry? Why Should America Care?
by Ellis Cose

The Great Migration: Journey To The North
by Eloise Greenfield

Brothers & Sisters: Family Poems
by Eloise Greenfield

The Friendly Four
by Eloise Greenfield

Me & Neesie (reillustrated)
by Eloise Greenfield

In The Land Of Words: New And Selected Poems
by Eloise Greenfield

Honey, I Love
by Eloise Greenfield

For The Love Of The Game: Michael Jordan And Me (Trophy Picture Books)
by Eloise Greenfield

She Come Bringing Me That Little Baby Girl
by Eloise Greenfield

Under The Sunday Tree
by Eloise Greenfield

Sister
by Eloise Greenfield

Honey, I Love And Other Love Poems
by Eloise Greenfield

Africa Dream
by Eloise Greenfield

Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir
by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little

Blowback
by Eric Fullilove

32 Candles: A Novel
by Ernessa T. Carter

Cumbayah
by Floyd Cooper

Raising The Bar
by Gabrielle Douglas

Race For Success: The Ten Best Business Opportunities For Blacks In America
by George C. Fraser

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
by Gilbert King

Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend
by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Bronzeville Boys And Girls
by Gwendolyn Brooks

Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination
by Herb Boyd

Original Zinn: Conversations On History And Politics
by Howard Zinn

The Twentieth Century: A People’s History
by Howard Zinn

Another Brooklyn: A Novel
by Jacqueline Woodson

Hue And Cry: Stories
by James Alan McPherson

A House Is Not a Home: A B-Boy Blues Novel
by James Earl Hardy

Love the One You’re With (B-Boy Blues, Book 5)
by James Earl Hardy

Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African Americans
by James M. Washington

Eye On The Struggle: Ethel Payne, The First Lady Of The Black Press
by James Mcgrath Morris

After The Dance: My Life With Marvin Gaye
by Jan Gaye and David Ritz

The Returned
by Jason Mott

I Have a Sister—My Sister Is Deaf
by Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson

Just Us Women
by Jeannette Caines

The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir
by Jenifer Lewis

Let’s Get It On: A Novel
by Jill Nelson

Hattie Mcdaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood
by Jill Watts

Niv Lessons From Life Bible: Personal Reflections With Jimmy Carter
by Jimmy Carter

Through The Year With Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations From The 39Th President
by Jimmy Carter

Baby Says
by John Steptoe

In the Land of Milk and Honey
by Joyce Carol Thomas

The Blacker The Berry
by Joyce Carol Thomas

Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea
by Joyce Carol Thomas

Which Way Freedom? (Obi and Easter Trilogy)
by Joyce Hansen

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
by Kadir Nelson

Black Profiles In Courage
by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Alan Steinberg

Confessions of a Video Vixen
by Karrine Steffans

Be Careful What You Pray For (Reverend Curtis Black #7)
by Kimberla Lawson Roby

He Said, She Said
by Kwame Alexander

Fake ID
by Lamar Giles

Any Known Blood
by Lawrence Hill

Surprises (I Can Read Book 3)
by Lee Bennett Hopkins

Chasing Space: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances
by Leland Melvin

Chasing Space Young Readers’ Edition
by Leland Melvin

Career GPS: Strategies for Women Navigating the New Corporate Landscape
by Linda Villarosa

By Love Possessed: Stories
by Lorna Goodison

The Book of Luke: My Fight for Truth, Justice, and Liberty City
by Luther Campbell

Unburnable: A Novel
by Marie-Elena John

Storm in the Night
by Mary Stolz

Miss Jessie’s: Creating a Successful Business from Scratch—Naturally
by Miko Branch

Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World
by Mildred Pitts Walter

Donavan’s Double Trouble
by Monalisa DeGross

Too Beautiful for Words
by Monique W. Morris

Bicycles: Love Poems
by Nikki Giovanni

A Girl Named Mister
by Nikki Grimes

Meet Danitra Brown
by Nikki Grimes

Freedom’s a-Callin Me
by Ntozake Shange

We Troubled the Waters
by Ntozake Shange

Spectacle: The Astonishing Life Of Ota Benga
by Pamela Newkirk

Harvey Moon, Museum Boy
by Pat Cummings

Brida: A Novel (P.S.)
by Paulo Coelho

The Witch Of Portobello: A Novel (P.S.)
by Paulo Coelho

The Devil And Miss Prym: A Novel Of Temptation (P.S.)
by Paulo Coelho

The Zahir: A Novel Of Obsession
by Paulo Coelho

By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept: A Novel Of Forgiveness
by Paulo Coelho

Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)
by Paulo Coelho

The Fifth Mountain
by Paulo Coelho

Little Divas
by Philana Marie Boles

In The Paint: A Novel
by Philana Marie Boles

Worthy Brown's Daughter
by Phillip Margolin

American Tapestry
by Rachel L. Swarns

Daughters Of Men: Portraits Of African-American Women And Their Fathers
by Rachel Vassel

A Father’s Law
by Richard Wright

Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
by Rita Williams-Garcia

Gone Crazy in Alabama
by Rita Williams-Garcia

P.S. Be Eleven
by Rita Williams-Garcia

One Crazy Summer
by Rita Williams-Garcia

Jumped
by Rita Williams-Garcia

No Laughter Here
by Rita Williams-Garcia

Every Time A Rainbow Dies
by Rita Williams-Garcia

Sweetie Pie’s Cookbook: Soulful Southern Recipes, from My Family to Yours
by Robbie Montgomery

Where Everybody Looks Like Me: At the Crossroads of America’s Black Colleges and Culture
by Ron Stodghill

Redbone: The Millionaire and the Gold Digger
by Ron Stodghill

Bad Feminist: Essays
by Roxane Gay

Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
by Shomari Wills

Lead Me Home (Winds Of Change)
by Stacy Hawkins Adams

Coming Home: A Novel (Winds Of Change)
by Stacy Hawkins Adams

Jump: Take the Leap of Faith to Achieve Your Life of Abundance
by Steve Harvey

Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success: Discovering Your Gift and the Way to Life's Riches
by Steve Harvey

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Expanded Edition: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment
by Steve Harvey and Denene Millner

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man Movie Tie-in What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment
by Steve Harvey and Denene Millner

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man
by Steve Harvey and Denene Millner

Straight Talk, No Chaser: How To Find, Keep, And Understand A Man
by Steve Harvey and Denene Millner

Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, And Commitment
by Steve Harvey and Denene Millner

In The Spirit
by Susan L. Taylor

Unbreak My Heart: A Memoir
by Toni Braxton

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
by Virginia Hamilton

Darius & Twig
by Walter Dean Myers

Lockdown
by Walter Dean Myers

Ida B. Wells: Let The Truth Be Told
by Walter Dean Myers

Autobiography of My Dead Brother
by Walter Dean Myers

Shooter
by Walter Dean Myers

Monster
by Walter Dean Myers

Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom
by Walter Dean Myers

The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage
by Walter Dean Myers and Bill Miles

Hold Me In Contempt
by Wendy Williams

Ask Wendy: Straight-Up Advice For All The Drama In Your Life
by Wendy Williams

The Mother: A Novel
by Yvvette Edwards

A Cupboard Full of Coats: A Novel
by Yvvette Edwards

Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
by Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston