African American Literature Book Club

Celebrating Our Literary Legacy Since 1997 — Black Literature is for Everyone

17 Publications from Soft Skull Press

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Click for more detail about Tijuana Book of the Dead by Luís Alberto Urrea
Tijuana Book of the Dead
by Luís Alberto Urrea
Click for more detail about Letter to Jimmy by Alain Mabanckou
Letter to Jimmy
by Alain Mabanckou
Click for more detail about Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa
Click for more detail about Memoirs of a Porcupine (NONE) by Alain Mabanckou
Click for more detail about Black Cool: One Thousand Streams Of Blackness by Rebecca Walker
Click for more detail about White Like Me: Reflections On Race From A Privileged Son by Tim Wise
Click for more detail about Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou
Broken Glass
by Alain Mabanckou
Click for more detail about Open Letters To America: Essays By Kevin Powell by Kevin Powell
Click for more detail about Who’s Your Mama?: The Unsung Voices Of Women And Mothers by Yvonne Bynoe
Click for more detail about Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From An Angry White Male by Tim Wise
Click for more detail about Be A Father To Your Child: Real Talk From Black Men On Family, Love, And Fatherhood by April R Silver
Click for more detail about No Sleep Till Brooklyn: New And Selected Poems by Kevin Powell
Click for more detail about African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou
African Psycho
by Alain Mabanckou
Click for more detail about Someday We’ll All Be Free by Kevin Powell
Click for more detail about Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan’s Workplaces to Clinton’s Columbine and Beyond by Mark Ames
Click for more detail about Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters and Other Selected Essays by Farai Chideya
Click for more detail about Stand and Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership, and Hip Hop Culture by Yvonne Bynoe