African American Literature Book Club

Celebrating Our Literary Legacy Since 1998 — Black Literature is for Everyone

15 Books Published by Harper Paperbacks an Imprint of HarperCollins

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Click for more detail about Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching by Paula J. Giddings
Click for more detail about The Importance of Being Dangerous by David Dante Troutt
Click for more detail about Like Trees, Walking: A Novel by Ravi Howard
Click for more detail about sex.lies.murder.fame.: A Novel by Lolita Files
Click for more detail about Coffee Will Make You Black: A Novel by April Sinclair
Click for more detail about Ain’t Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice by April Sinclair
Click for more detail about Raising Hell: The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay by Ronin Ro
Click for more detail about I Got Somebody in Staunton: Stories by William Henry Lewis
Click for more detail about King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. by Wil Haygood
Click for more detail about The Second Life of Samuel Tyne by Esi Edugyan
Click for more detail about Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men Speak Out on Law, Justice, and Life by Jabari Asim
Click for more detail about Black and Beautiful by Barbara Summers
Black and Beautiful
by Barbara Summers
Click for more detail about Bootleg by Damon Wayans
Bootleg
by Damon Wayans
Click for more detail about Chesapeake Song by Brenda Lane Richardson
Chesapeake Song
by Brenda Lane Richardson
Click for more detail about A Hard Road To Glory: A History Of The African American Athlete by Arthur Ashe