Collage of 2014’s Most Critically Acclaimed Books (back to list)

Click for more detail about Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Click for more detail about Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Click for more detail about An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
Click for more detail about Forty Acres: A Novel by Dwayne Alexander Smith
Click for more detail about Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland
Click for more detail about The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
Click for more detail about Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Click for more detail about Mayor For Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry Jr. by Marion Barry Jr. and Omar Tyree
Click for more detail about The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Click for more detail about Little Melba And Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown
Click for more detail about A Deeper Love Inside by Sister Souljah
Click for more detail about Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
Click for more detail about Firebird by Misty Copeland
Click for more detail about Easier Said Than Done by Nikki Woods
Click for more detail about Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder
Click for more detail about A Brief History Of Seven Killings: A Novel by Marlon James
Click for more detail about Beautiful Moon: A Child’s Prayer by Tonya Bolden
Click for more detail about 10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse by J.J. Smith
Click for more detail about Paradise by Toni Morrison
Click for more detail about Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
Click for more detail about Fire Shut Up In My Bones by Charles M. Blow
Click for more detail about Til The Well Runs Dry by Lauren Francis-Sharma
Click for more detail about Digest (Stahlecker Selections) by Gregory Pardlo
Click for more detail about Fortune & Fame by ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray
Click for more detail about Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success: Discovering Your Gift and the Way to Life’s Riches by Steve Harvey
Click for more detail about The Replacement Wife by Tiffany Warren
Click for more detail about Unforgettable by Delaney Diamond
Click for more detail about All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
Click for more detail about The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson
Click for more detail about Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
Click for more detail about Forever An Ex by Victoria Christopher Murray
Click for more detail about Hold Me In Contempt by Wendy Williams
Click for more detail about The Fix by K’wan
Click for more detail about Troublemaker by Trice Hickman
Click for more detail about Little Lion Goes to School by Kellie Magnus
Click for more detail about The Prodigal Son (Reverend Curtis Black #11) by Kimberla Lawson Roby
Click for more detail about A Letter for My Mother by Nina Foxx
Click for more detail about Momma: Gone by Nina Foxx
Click for more detail about Citizens Creek: A Novel by Lalita Tademy
Click for more detail about Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
Click for more detail about My Steps Are Ordered by Michelle Lindo-Rice
Click for more detail about Searching for Zion by Emily Raboteau
Click for more detail about The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women by Edward Lewis
Click for more detail about Anna Carries Water by Olive Senior
Click for more detail about Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics by bell hooks
Click for more detail about Unbreak My Heart: A Memoir by Toni Braxton
Click for more detail about Freedom Summer: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Summer by Maya Angelou
Click for more detail about Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remix by Bryant Terry
Click for more detail about What’s Done In the Dark by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Click for more detail about A Wanted Woman by Eric Jerome Dickey
Click for more detail about Land Of Love And Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique
Click for more detail about Justice While Black: Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the Criminal Justice System by Robbin Shipp and Nick Chiles
Click for more detail about Claire Of The Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
Click for more detail about James Baldwin The Last Interview: and Other Conversations by James Baldwin
Click for more detail about Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel by Helen Oyeyemi
Click for more detail about One Million Men And Me by Kelly Starling Lyons
Click for more detail about Searching For Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl In America by Tonya Bolden
Click for more detail about Who We Be: The Colorization of America by Jeff Chang
Click for more detail about Dorothy Porter Wesley At Howard University: Building A Legacy Of Black History by Janet Sims-Wood
Click for more detail about Black Lotus by K’wan
Click for more detail about Josephine: The Dazzling Life Of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell
Click for more detail about We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters by Brian Gilmore
Click for more detail about Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
Click for more detail about Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
Click for more detail about Nine Years Under by Sheri Booker
Click for more detail about Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean by Peekash Press
Click for more detail about Every Day Is For The Thief: Fiction by Teju Cole