185 Books in the Literary Collections / African American & Black Category

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Life of the Party

Life of the Party
Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet

Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet
Magically Black and Other Essays (paperback)

Magically Black and Other Essays (paperback)
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 1): 4th Edition

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 1): 4th Edition
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 2): 4th Edition

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 2): 4th Edition
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 4th Ed.

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 4th Ed.
That’s How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor

That’s How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor
Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores

Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores
Magically Black and Other Essays

Magically Black and Other Essays
We’re Alone: Essays

We’re Alone: Essays
Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems

Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems
Encounter on the Seine: Essays

Encounter on the Seine: Essays
Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion: Reading Poems by Harryette Mullen

Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion: Reading Poems by Harryette Mullen
The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name in the Street; The Devil Findswork: Introduction by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name in the Street; The Devil Findswork: Introduction by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
The Harlem Ghetto: Essays

The Harlem Ghetto: Essays
The James Baldwin Collection

The James Baldwin Collection
Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays

Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays
The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins

The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets

This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America

Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America
Black Love Letters

Black Love Letters
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology

Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology
Sing a Black Girl’s Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange

Sing a Black Girl’s Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange
Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry

Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill

How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Expanded Edition)

They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Expanded Edition)
Minor Notes, Volume 1

Minor Notes, Volume 1
The Kevin Powell Reader: Essential Writings and Conversations

The Kevin Powell Reader: Essential Writings and Conversations
This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays (paperback)

You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays (paperback)
Shotgun Seamstress: An Anthology

Shotgun Seamstress: An Anthology
The Essential Dick Gregory

The Essential Dick Gregory
Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic

Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic
Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up

Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up
Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings

Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker
Black Fire This Time

Black Fire This Time
Promise Broken

Promise Broken
by K’wan
Claim Tickets for Stolen People

Claim Tickets for Stolen People
You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays

You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays
Zora Neale Hurston Boxed Set

Zora Neale Hurston Boxed Set
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time

Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker

The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985

The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985
Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture

Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture
Ain’t I a Woman?

Ain’t I a Woman?
It’s Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940 - 1980

It’s Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940 - 1980
Sonia Sanchez Collected Poems

Sonia Sanchez Collected Poems
Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition

Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition
Meeting at the Table: African-American Women Write on Race, Culture and Community

Meeting at the Table: African-American Women Write on Race, Culture and Community

How to Make a Slave and Other Essays

How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery

The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery
The Essential Clarence Major: Prose and Poetry

The Essential Clarence Major: Prose and Poetry
All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective

All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective
Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems

Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems
Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation

Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation
The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches

The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry

Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing… and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

I Love Myself When I Am Laughing… and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom

The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom
Soul Sister Revue: A Poetry Compilation

Soul Sister Revue: A Poetry Compilation
midnight & indigo Issue 2: celebrating black women writers

midnight & indigo Issue 2: celebrating black women writers
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent

New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent
When You Learn the Alphabet

When You Learn the Alphabet
Black Panther Paradigm Shift or Not?

Black Panther Paradigm Shift or Not?
The Huey P. Newton Reader, 2nd Edtion

The Huey P. Newton Reader, 2nd Edtion
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
And It Begins Like This

And It Begins Like This
Gospel Plays, Operas, and Later Dramatic Works

Gospel Plays, Operas, and Later Dramatic Works
Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings

Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings
Meaty: Essays

Meaty: Essays
Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka: Poems, Plays, Politics for the People

Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka: Poems, Plays, Politics for the People
Conversations with John A. Williams

Conversations with John A. Williams
Love’s Long Line (21st Century Essays)

Love’s Long Line (21st Century Essays)
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing

Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
New Orleans Griot The Tom Dent Reader

New Orleans Griot The Tom Dent Reader
The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books)

The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books)
Encyclopedia of Black Comics

Encyclopedia of Black Comics
Electric Arches

Electric Arches
The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent

The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent
Black Lives Have Always Mattered: A Collection of Essays, Poems, and Personal Narratives

Black Lives Have Always Mattered: A Collection of Essays, Poems, and Personal Narratives
Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara

Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara
Map to the Stars

Map to the Stars
My Joy

My Joy
Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks

Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks
Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn

Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn
Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs

Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs
The Solution: How Africans in America Achieve Unity, Justice and Repair

The Solution: How Africans in America Achieve Unity, Justice and Repair
Known and Strange Things: Essays

Known and Strange Things: Essays
Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader

Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
Red Summer

Red Summer
Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond

Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond
The Gymnast and Other Positions: Stories, Essays, Interviews

The Gymnast and Other Positions: Stories, Essays, Interviews
These Truly Are the Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship

These Truly Are the Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship
Black Kirby: In Search of the MotherBoxx Connection

Black Kirby: In Search of the MotherBoxx Connection
But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women’s Studies

But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women’s Studies
4 Pages 16 Bars: The Symphony (Volume 1)

4 Pages 16 Bars: The Symphony (Volume 1)
The Complete Poetry

The Complete Poetry
Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean

Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean
Citizen: An American Lyric

Citizen: An American Lyric
Branches of the Tree of Life: The Collected Poems of Abiodun Oyewole 1969-2013

Branches of the Tree of Life: The Collected Poems of Abiodun Oyewole 1969-2013
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Third Ed. Vol. 1

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Third Ed. Vol. 1
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 3rd Ed.

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 3rd Ed.
White Girls

White Girls
How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America

How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America
African American Church: Waking Up to God’s Missionary Call

African American Church: Waking Up to God’s Missionary Call
Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems

Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems
The Cushion In The Road: Meditation And Wandering As The Whole World Awakens To Being In Harm’s Way

The Cushion In The Road: Meditation And Wandering As The Whole World Awakens To Being In Harm’s Way
Countee Cullen: Collected Poems

Countee Cullen: Collected Poems
Notes of a Native Son

Notes of a Native Son
In The Black: New African Canadian Literature

In The Black: New African Canadian Literature
Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement

Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement
The Works Of Alain Locke

The Works Of Alain Locke
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader
The Grey Album: On The Blackness Of Blackness

The Grey Album: On The Blackness Of Blackness
Black Cool: One Thousand Streams Of Blackness

Black Cool: One Thousand Streams Of Blackness
Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara

Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara
Karma’s Footsteps

Karma’s Footsteps
Too Much Boogie: Erotic Remixes Of The Dirty Blues

Too Much Boogie: Erotic Remixes Of The Dirty Blues
The Word: Black Writers Talk About The Transformative Power Of Reading And Writing

The Word: Black Writers Talk About The Transformative Power Of Reading And Writing
Say It Loud: Great Speeches On Civil Rights And African American Identity

Say It Loud: Great Speeches On Civil Rights And African American Identity
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings

The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street

Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street
Conversations With Yusef Komunyakaa (Literary Conversations Series)

Conversations With Yusef Komunyakaa (Literary Conversations Series)
Lighthead (Poets, Penguin)

Lighthead (Poets, Penguin)
The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha

Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha
Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall

Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall
Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers

Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers
Forward From This Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2009

Forward From This Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2009
Mixology (National Poetry Series)

Mixology (National Poetry Series)
I Am Your Sister: Collected And Unpublished Writings Of Audre Lorde (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities)

I Am Your Sister: Collected And Unpublished Writings Of Audre Lorde (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities)
Best African American Essays: 2009

Best African American Essays: 2009
The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson (Modern Library Classics)

The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson (Modern Library Classics)
Mixing It Up: Taking On the Media Bullies and Other Reflections

Mixing It Up: Taking On the Media Bullies and Other Reflections
T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928

T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928
What Moves At The Margin: Selected Nonfiction

What Moves At The Margin: Selected Nonfiction
When A Good Will Goes Bad

When A Good Will Goes Bad
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing

Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing
Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora

Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora
Black Maria

Black Maria
Bronx Biannual No. 2

Bronx Biannual No. 2
Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press

Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press
Mozart and Leadbelly

Mozart and Leadbelly
Bronx Biannual (The Journal of Urbane Urban Literature)

Bronx Biannual (The Journal of Urbane Urban Literature)
Literary Divas: The Top 100+ Most Admired African-American Women in Literature

Literary Divas: The Top 100+ Most Admired African-American Women in Literature
Wind in a Box (Penguin Poets)

Wind in a Box (Penguin Poets)
The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology

The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology
Fiction, Essays & Poetry

Fiction, Essays & Poetry
What Keeps Me Standing: Letters from Black Grandmothers on Peace, Hope and Inspiration

What Keeps Me Standing: Letters from Black Grandmothers on Peace, Hope and Inspiration
The Black Woman: An Anthology

The Black Woman: An Anthology
Selected Writings And Speeches Of Marcus Garvey

Selected Writings And Speeches Of Marcus Garvey
Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women

Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women
Proverbs For The People: Contemporary African-American Stories

Proverbs For The People: Contemporary African-American Stories
James Weldon Johnson: Writings

James Weldon Johnson: Writings
The Best Of Emerge Magazine

The Best Of Emerge Magazine
Proverbs For The People

Proverbs For The People
Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife

Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife
African American Audio Experience

African American Audio Experience
A Love No Less: Two Centuries Of African American Love Letters

A Love No Less: Two Centuries Of African American Love Letters
Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing

Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing
Hip Logic (National Poetry Series)

Hip Logic (National Poetry Series)
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent

Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)

Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
The Ten Lights of God

The Ten Lights of God
Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books

Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Loa #98): Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds

James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Loa #98): Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology

Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology
The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1995

The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1995
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader

The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
Shadow And Act

Shadow And Act
Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?
Wild Women Don’t Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex

Wild Women Don’t Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex
The Black Librarian in America Revisited

The Black Librarian in America Revisited
Selected Poems

Selected Poems
Hand Dance

Hand Dance
African Sleeping Sickness: Stories and Poems

African Sleeping Sickness: Stories and Poems
Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction

Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction
Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960

Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960