56 Books Published by Penguin Books an Imprint of Penguin Random House

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Map to the Stars
by Adrian Matejka

The Big Smoke (Poets, Penguin)
by Adrian Matejka

Mixology (National Poetry Series)
by Adrian Matejka

Billy
by Albert French

Blanche Passes Go
by Barbara Neely

Blanche among the Talented Tenth
by Barbara Neely

All Shot Up (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Chester Himes

The Education of a British-protected Child
by Chinua Achebe

The Virgin Of Flames
by Chris Abani

Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
by Cornel West

High Cotton (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Darryl Pinckney

When Harlem Was In Vogue
by David Levering Lewis

Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation
by Gerald L. Early

Linden Hills (Contemporary American Fiction Series)
by Gloria Naylor

The Women of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor

Multi-America: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace
by Ishmael Reed

Japanese by Spring
by Ishmael Reed

Sonny’s Blues
by James Baldwin

Rats In The Trees (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Jess Mowry

Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman
by Jill Nelson

Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience
by Jill Nelson

Fever (Contemporary American Fiction)
by John Edgar Wideman

Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
by Juan Williams

Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America; Sixth Revised Edition
by Lerone Bennett

The Shaping of Black America: The Struggles and Triumphs of African-Americans, 1619-1990s
by Lerone Bennett

Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience
by Martin Simmons

Segu
by Maryse Conde

The White Woman on the Green Bicycle: A Novel
by Monique Roffey

Hip Hop America
by Nelson George

Three Pieces
by Ntozake Shange

Knots
by Nuruddin Farah

From A Crooked Rib
by Nuruddin Farah

Links
by Nuruddin Farah

Gifts
by Nuruddin Farah

Maps
by Nuruddin Farah

Secrets
by Nuruddin Farah

Joker, Joker, Deuce
by Paul Beatty

Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000, Revised Edition
by Peter Nabokov

The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
by Rita Dove

Mastery
by Robert Greene

The 33 Strategies of War (Joost Elffers Books)
by Robert Greene

The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene

Welcome to Braggsville: A Novel
by T. Geronimo Johnson

A Palace in the Old Village: A Novel
by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Leaving Tangier: A Novel
by Tahar Ben Jelloun

This Blinding Absence of Light. Tahar Ben Jelloun
by Tahar Ben Jelloun

The Last Friend
by Tahar Ben Jelloun

This Blinding Absence of Light
by Tahar Ben Jelloun

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin Poets)
by Terrance Hayes

Lighthead (Poets, Penguin)
by Terrance Hayes

Wind in a Box (Penguin Poets)
by Terrance Hayes

Hip Logic (National Poetry Series)
by Terrance Hayes

Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction
by Terry McMillan

The Maker of Saints
by Thulani Davis

Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man
by Vincent Carretta

Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York
by Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz, Teju Cole, John Freeman, and others…