African American Literature Book Club

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64 Books Published by Doubleday an Imprint of Penguin Random House

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Click for more detail about The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
Click for more detail about My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Click for more detail about The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
Click for more detail about Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley
Click for more detail about The Risen: A Novel of Spartacus by David Anthony Durham
The Risen: A Novel of Spartacus
by David Anthony Durham
Click for more detail about Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America by Bob Herbert
Click for more detail about The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
Click for more detail about The Sacred Band: Book Three of the Acacia Trilogy by David Anthony Durham
Click for more detail about The Other Lands (Acacia, Book 2) by David Anthony Durham
The Other Lands (Acacia, Book 2)
by David Anthony Durham
Click for more detail about Acacia: The War with the Mein (Acacia, Book 1) by David Anthony Durham
Click for more detail about Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas by Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher
Click for more detail about Ghettonation: A Journey Into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless by Cora Daniels
Click for more detail about Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
Click for more detail about After: A Novel by Marita Golden
After: A Novel
by Marita Golden
Click for more detail about I Say a Little Prayer: A Novel by E. Lynn Harris
Click for more detail about Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns: Stories by J. California Cooper
Click for more detail about The New Basic Black: Home Training for Modern Times — Revised Edition by Karen Grigsby Bates
Click for more detail about Queens: Portraits of Black Women and their Fabulous Hair by Michael Cunningham and George Alexander
Queens: Portraits of Black Women and their Fabulous Hair
by Michael Cunningham and George Alexander
Click for more detail about Hung: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America by Scott Poulson-Bryant
Click for more detail about Finding Martha’s Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island by Jill Nelson
Click for more detail about Can’t Get Enough: A Novel by Connie Briscoe
Click for more detail about The Promise: How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of 1st Graders to College by Oral Lee Brown and Caille Millner
Click for more detail about Pride of Carthage: A Novel of Hannibal by David Anthony Durham
Click for more detail about Some People, Some Other Place by J. California Cooper
Some People, Some Other Place
by J. California Cooper
Click for more detail about Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Lucy Hurston
Click for more detail about The Blackbird Papers: A Novel by Ian Smith
Click for more detail about What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir by E. Lynn Harris
Click for more detail about Crawfish Dreams: A Novel by Nancy Rawles
Click for more detail about Mandela, Mobutu, and Me: A Newswoman’s African Journey by Lynne Duke
Click for more detail about Sapphire’s Grave by Hilda Gurley Highgate
Sapphire’s Grave
by Hilda Gurley Highgate
Click for more detail about A Love of My Own: A Novel by E. Lynn Harris
A Love of My Own: A Novel
by E. Lynn Harris
Click for more detail about A Walk Through Darkness: A Novel by David Anthony Durham
A Walk Through Darkness: A Novel
by David Anthony Durham
Click for more detail about The Queen of Harlem by Brian Keith Jackson
The Queen of Harlem
by Brian Keith Jackson
Click for more detail about Shackling Water by Adam Mansbach
Shackling Water
by Adam Mansbach
Click for more detail about Free and Other Stories by Anika Nailah
Free and Other Stories
by Anika Nailah
Click for more detail about Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones by Quincy Jones
Click for more detail about Seven Soulful Secrets for Finding Your Purpose and Minding Your Mission by Stephanie Stokes Oliver
Click for more detail about Guys in Suits: A Novel by Van Whitfield
Guys in Suits: A Novel
by Van Whitfield
Click for more detail about Any Way the Wind Blows: A Novel by E. Lynn Harris
Click for more detail about Gabriel’s Story by David Anthony Durham
Gabriel’s Story
by David Anthony Durham
Click for more detail about Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry
Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats
by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry
Click for more detail about Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt by Jack Olsen
Click for more detail about Not a Day Goes By: A Novel by E. Lynn Harris
Click for more detail about Do or Die: A Mali Anderson Mystery by Grace Edwards
Click for more detail about Daily Cornbread: 365 Ingredients For A Healthy Mind, Body and Soul by Stephanie Stokes Oliver
Click for more detail about No Time to Die by Grace Edwards
No Time to Die
by Grace Edwards
Click for more detail about Invisible Life: Special edition by E. Lynn Harris
Click for more detail about Another Africa: Photographs by Robert Lyons by Robert Lyons and Chinua Achebe
Another Africa: Photographs by Robert Lyons
by Robert Lyons and Chinua Achebe
Click for more detail about I Can’t Wait on God by Albert French
I Can’t Wait on God
by Albert French
Click for more detail about If I Should Die by Grace Edwards
If I Should Die
by Grace Edwards
Click for more detail about Basic Black: Home Training for Modern Times by Karen Grigsby Bates
Click for more detail about Patches of Fire: A Story of War and Redemption by Albert French
Click for more detail about Long Distance Life by Marita Golden
Long Distance Life
by Marita Golden
Click for more detail about My Soul’s High Song by Countee Cullen
My Soul’s High Song
by Countee Cullen
Click for more detail about McKenzie’s Hundred by Frank Yerby
McKenzie’s Hundred
by Frank Yerby

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All Good Things
by Sandra Kitt
Click for more detail about Devilseed by Frank Yerby
Devilseed
by Frank Yerby
Click for more detail about Western by Frank Yerby
Western
by Frank Yerby
Click for more detail about Abingdon’s by Michael R. French
Abingdon’s
by Michael R. French
Click for more detail about War Cry on a Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute Indians by Nancy Wood
Click for more detail about Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington by Ruth Ann Stewart
Click for more detail about A Rose for Ana Maria: A Novel by Frank Yerby
Click for more detail about The Trouble They Seen: Black People Tell the Story of Reconstruction by Dorothy Sterling
Click for more detail about Savior, Savior, hold my hand by Piri Thomas