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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jhumpa Lahiri, and 21 Other Authors
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jhumpa Lahiri, and 21 Other Authors MULTIPLE Discover the remarkable works of 23 authors including renowned writers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jhumpa Lahiri. Explore diver...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 0000000114510288 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, born in Nigeria, is a renowned author and educator who graduated summa cum laude in Communication from Eastern Connecticut State. S...
Notes on Grief
Notes on Grief Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780593320808 Nonfiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wa...
One World: A global anthology of short stories
One World: A global anthology of short stories Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jhumpa Lahiri, and 21 Other Authors 9781906523138 Fiction New Internationalist New Internationalist This book is made up of twe...
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith 000000012276857X Zadie Smith, born Sadie Smith in 1975, is a renowned British author of Jamaican-English heritage. Her debut novel, “White Teeth,” won numerous awards, and subsequent nove...
The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners
The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780593311257 Fiction Anchor Books Penguin Random House Twenty prizewinning stories selected from the thousands publish...
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9781524733131 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be ...
The Thing Around Your Neck
The Thing Around Your Neck Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780307455918 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House In these twelve dazzlng stories, the bestselling, award-winning Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explores ...
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9781400095209 Fiction Alfred A. Knopf Penguin Random House A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the...
Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan
Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan Beowulf Sheehan 9780316515153 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Group A beautiful and moving collection of photographs by Beowulf Sheehan, whose w...
(s)Kinfolk: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
(s)Kinfolk: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah Tochi Onyebuchi 9780999431696 Nonfiction Fiction Advocate Fiction Advocate Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. When Did You First...
We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9781101911761 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random House In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-admired TEDx talk of the same n...
Americanah
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780307271082 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered arou...
Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz, Teju Cole, John Freeman, and others
Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz, Teju Cole, John Freeman, and others MULTIPLE "Zadie Smith, Junot DÃaz, Teju Cole, and John Freeman are renowned authors known for their significant contributions to literatu...
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays Zadie Smith 9781594202377 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House A sparkling collection of Zadie Smith?s nonfiction over the past decade. Zadie Smith brings ...
Dream Count
Dream Count Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780593802724 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House A publishing event ten years in the making—a searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and ...
Dead and Alive: Essays
Dead and Alive: Essays Zadie Smith 9780593834688 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House A profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays ...
Dream Count (Large Print)
Dream Count (Large Print) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9798217014361 Fiction Random House Large Print Penguin Random House New York Times Bestseller • A publishing event ten years in the making—a sea...
Book Club Picks - $10 Classics from HarperCollins - Plus More in AALBC’s eNewsletter
Book Club Picks - $10 Classics from HarperCollins - Plus More in AALBC’s eNewsletter Troy Johnson Article Books a Few Book Clubs are Enjoying this Month The Tea’s October Selection – We Shou...
The Arrangements
The Arrangements Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie B01M3SOJYH Fiction Random House Audio Penguin Random House The Arrangements is a short story originally published for The New York Times Book Review, which co...
Grand Union: Stories
Grand Union: Stories Zadie Smith 9780525558996 Fiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House A dazzling collection of short fiction. Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, crit...
Mama’s Sleeping Scarf
Mama’s Sleeping Scarf Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780593535578 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House The first children’s book from the best-selling author of We Should All Be Feminists an...
Zikora: A Short Story
Zikora: A Short Story Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie B08K942N84 Fiction Amazon Original Stories Amazon Publishing The emotional storms weathered by a mother and daughter yield a profound new understanding i...
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 Margaret Busby 9780062912985 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The companion to the classic anthology Daughters o...
Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories
Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 9781620974650 Fiction The New Press The New Press A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls one of the grea...
Purple Hibiscus: A Novel
Purple Hibiscus: A Novel Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9781616202415 Fiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 0000000109301051 AALBC Mourns the passing of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o May 28, 2025 Kenyan-born Ngugi wa Thiong’o was a leading East African novelist, educated in Kenya, ...
Beauty Bragg
Beauty Bragg 0000000125620829 Beauty Bragg is a Professor of African American Literature at Georgia College with a BA from USC and a MA and Ph.D from UT Austin. She authored a book exploring black wo...
Biyi Bandele
Biyi Bandele 0000000120964833 Biyi Bandele-Thomas (1967-2022) was a renowned Nigerian novelist, playwright, director, and photographer. He was celebrated as one of Africa's top 50 artists. Bandele's ...
Feel Free: Essays
Feel Free: Essays Zadie Smith 9781594206252 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays Since she burs...
The Embassy of Cambodia
The Embassy of Cambodia Zadie Smith 9780241146521 Fiction Hamish Hamilton Penguin Random House UK Revisiting the terrain of her acclaimed novel NW, The Embassy of Cambodia is another remarkable work o...
NW: A Novel
NW: A Novel Zadie Smith 9781594203978 Fiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House Selected as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012 by the New York Times “A boldly Joycean appropriation, fortunat...
On Beauty
On Beauty Zadie Smith 9780143037743 Fiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction, another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author of White Teeth ...
White Teeth: A Novel
White Teeth: A Novel Zadie Smith 9780375703867 Fiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dic...
The Miseducation of Obi Ifeanyi by Chinedu Achebe
The Miseducation of Obi Ifeanyi by Chinedu Achebe Robert Fleming Book Review Some of the world’s finest fiction has been written by Nigerians. Let’s look at the writers from that area in...
No Sweetness Here and Other Stories (Revised)
No Sweetness Here and Other Stories (Revised) Ama Ata Aidoo 9781558611191 Fiction The Feminist Press The Feminist Press From the author of Changes: these stories “of post-independence Ghana in the lat...
Intimations: Six Essays
Intimations: Six Essays Zadie Smith 9780593297612 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Intimations captures the uneasiness of our modern moment as Smith reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic and ...
Martha and Hanwell
Martha and Hanwell Zadie Smith 9780141023120 Fiction Hamish Hamilton Penguin Random House UK Martha and Hanwell is a Penguin Pocket collection of two short stories by British author, Zadie Smith.“Mart...
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker William Jelani Cobb and David Remnick 9780063017597 Nonfiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A collection of The New Yorker’s groundbreaking writing o...
In the Wild
In the Wild Zadie Smith and Nick Laird 9798217038725 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Acclaimed authors Zadie Smith and Nick Laird are back with a brand-new picture book abo...
The Fraud
The Fraud Zadie Smith 9780525558965 Fiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal tri...
Recitatif
Recitatif Toni Morrison 9780593315033 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER• A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the le...
Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York
Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz, Teju Cole, John Freeman, and others 9780143128304 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Thirty maj...
The Autograph Man
The Autograph Man Zadie Smith 9780375703874 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. His business is to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, and occasion...
African Love Stories: An Anthology
African Love Stories: An Anthology Ama Ata Aidoo 9780954702366 Fiction Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ayebia Clarke Publishing This radical collection of short stories is a double award-winning book aimed a...
Kabu Kabu
Kabu Kabu Robert Fleming Book Review American-Nigerian author Nnedi Okorakor’s first short fiction collection, Kabu Kabu, takes the reader by surprise, with its heady mix of fantasy, scien...
Last Seen in Lapaz
Last Seen in Lapaz Kwei Quartey 9781641293396 Fiction Soho Crime Soho Crime Kwei Quartey transports readers to Ghana with this riveting third installment in the Shamus Award-winning Private Investigat...
B. Smith
B. Smith 0000000045066151 Barbara Elaine Smith (1949-2020) was a former fashion model and the first African-American woman on Mademoiselle’s cover. She also starred in TV commercials and served as a ...
William Gardner Smith
William Gardner Smith 0000000063221434 Influential writer and journalist William Gardner Smith (1927–1974) used his work to highlight racial inequality in America. His novels, such as The Stone Fac...
Robert F. Smith
Robert F. Smith NONE Entrepreneur and philanthropist Robert F. Smith contributed insights to the book “Lead Boldly: Seven Principles from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” Robert F. Smith is a philanthrop...
Will Smith
Will Smith 000000011507289X Will Smith is a leading figure in showbiz, known for starring in seven consecutive box-office hits, including I Am Legend. He is recognized for his challenging roles, such...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O’Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and Cheryl A. Wall
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O’Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and Cheryl A. Wal...
Terrific Books Coming in May, Beyond Adichie, and More!
Terrific Books Coming in May, Beyond Adichie, and More! Troy Johnson Article Terrific New Books Coming in May Former U.S. Poet Laureate, Rita Dove will publish a collection of her poetry from the 30...
African Stories
African Stories Ben Okri 9781101908334 Fiction Everyman’s Library Everyman’s Library A Pocket Classics hardcover collection of a century of 36 terrific stories by major writers from across Africa, sel...
Before the Mango Ripens
Before the Mango Ripens Afabwaje Kurian 9781950539994 Fiction Dzanc Books Dzanc Books In Rabata, everyone has secrets—especially since the arrival of the white American missionaries. Twenty-y...
Yoruba Boy Running
Yoruba Boy Running Biyi Bandele 9780063417083 Fiction Harper HarperCollins “A true artist. A brilliant writer. An original thinker.”—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A captivating, fictionalized retelling ...
Blessings
Blessings Chukwuebuka Ibeh 9780385550642 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House A BBC Best Book Of 2024 - A Most Anticipated Book - Moonlight Meets Purple Hibiscus In This Coming-Of-Age Novel Ab...
How to Write about Africa: Collected Works
How to Write about Africa: Collected Works Binyavanga Wainaina 9780812989656 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House From one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collec...
A Spell of Good Things
A Spell of Good Things Ayobami Adebayo 9780525657644 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, ro...
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth Wole Soyinka 9780593320167 Fiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House The first Black person ever to win the Nobel Prize in Literature gives u...
Revival Season
Revival Season Monica West 9781982133306 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. The daughter of one of the South’s most famous Baptist preachers discovers a shocking secret about her father t...
Red Island House: A Novel
Red Island House: A Novel Andrea Lee 9781982138189 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. From National Book Award–nominated writer Andrea Lee comes Red Island House, a travel epic that ...
March 1, 2017 Newsletter — Book Award Announcements, New Books, and More
March 1, 2017 Newsletter — Book Award Announcements, New Books, and More Troy Johnson Article New Books Coming Out March 2017 Helene Cooper tells the amazing of story Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader o...
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 9781620972403 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press One of Oprah.com’s "17 Must-Read Books for the New Year" and O Magazine’s "10 Titl...
Every Day Is For The Thief: Fiction
Every Day Is For The Thief: Fiction Teju Cole 9780812995787 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY DWIGHT GARNER, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE...
Best African American Fiction: 2009
Best African American Fiction: 2009 E. Lynn Harris and Gerald L. Early 9780553385342 Nonfiction Bantam Penguin Random House Introducing the first volume in an exciting new annual anthology featu...
Chukwuebuka Ibeh
Chukwuebuka Ibeh 0000000528722790 Chukwuebuka Ibeh is a Nigerian writer acclaimed for his work in various publications, including McSweeney's and the New England Review of Books. He's a Brittle Paper...
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun Kam Williams Half-of-a-Yellow-Sun.jpg Film Review Colonial Nigeria Provides Backdrop for Sweeping Romance Saga Half of a Yellow Sun In Theaters: May 16, 2014 Limited Rated...
Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems
Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems Patricia Smith 9781668055724 Poetry Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. “Patricia Smith is the greatest living poet. Every book is better than th...
Dan Smith
Dan Smith 0000000120314603 Dan Smith is a Boston University graduate with a diverse background including teaching and construction. Fluent in several languages, he enjoys various hobbies and lives in...
Henrietta Mays Smith
Henrietta Mays Smith 0000000066593663 Dr. Henrietta M. Smith, Ph.D, is a distinguished scholar and editor with a background in English, History, and Library Science. She's known for her editorial wor...
J.T. Smith
J.T. Smith 0000000117420835 J.T. Smith, a New Jersey-born author, developed a passion for reading and history at an early age. His interest in Black History and the Harlem Renaissance influenced his ...
Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith 0000000049042106 Smith was U.S. Poet Laureate, 2017-2019 Tracy K. Smith, born 1972, is a Pulitzer-winning poet and educator. She has published three poetry collections and teaches creat...
Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith 0000000110491657 Anna Deavere Smith, born in 1950, is a renowned actress, playwright, author, and professor. Famous for her roles in 'The West Wing' and 'Nurse Jackie', she's also ...
Sunshine Smith-Williams
Sunshine Smith-Williams NONE Sunshine Smith-Williams, a Queens native, overcame a poverty-stricken upbringing through education, climbing the corporate ladder. After job loss in 2010, she bravely fou...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O'Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and Cheryl A. Wall
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O'Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and Cheryl A. Wal...
Jada Pinkett Smith
Jada Pinkett Smith 0000000114602158 Jada Pinkett Smith is a versatile American actress, singer-songwriter, and producer notable for roles in over 20 films including the Matrix and Madagascar series. ...
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Gift Edition)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Gift Edition) Zora Neale Hurston 9780063068537 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The beloved Zora Neale Hurston Classic—a PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick—now available i...
Swing Time
Swing Time Zadie Smith 9781594203985 Fiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of W...
Hurricane
Hurricane Andrew Salkey 9781845231804 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press “…[Hurricane was] the book that made me want to write. He [Salkey] was the most wonderful writer for children.”—Zadi...
Nick Laird
Nick Laird 000000007851802X Nick Laird is an novelist and poet who was born in Northern Ireland and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. Nick Laird was born in Northern Ireland and studied at Cambridge ...
Sleepless Nights: The Drew Smith Series (Book 1)
Sleepless Nights: The Drew Smith Series (Book 1) Norwood Holland 9780983165620 Fiction Windmill Books Windmill Books Sleepless Nights abounds with despicable and loveable characters. Trial attorney Dr...
Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith (Sporting)
Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith (Sporting) Tommie Smith, Delois Smith, and David Steele 9781592136407 Nonfiction Temple University Press Temple University Press At the 1968 Olympics,...
J.J. Smith
J.J. Smith NONE JJ Smith is a certified nutritionist and weight-management specialist, renowned author, and inspirational speaker. Featured on multiple television shows and in high-profile publicatio...
Tracy K. Smith and Kevin Young
Tracy K. Smith and Kevin Young MULTIPLE Tracy K. Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of four poetry books, including 'Life on Mars', and the upcoming 'Such Color: New and Selected Poems'. She ha...
Danyel Smith
Danyel Smith 0000000034269092 Danyel Smith, born in 1965, is an accomplished journalist, editor, and author. A 2014 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow, Smith is known for her work with prominent outlet...
Danez Smith
Danez Smith 0000000529080232 Danez Smith is an award-winning poet from St. Paul, Minnesota. Known for his works such as [insert] boy, his poetry explores themes of race, class, sexuality, faith, and ...
Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman
Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman MULTIPLE Tracy K. Smith is a Pulitzer-winning poet, author of four books, including 'Life on Mars', and editor of 'American Journal'. She served as the US Poet Laureat...
Unshuttered: Poems
Unshuttered: Poems Patricia Smith 9780810145634 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press Unshuttered by Patricia Smith Award-winning poet Patricia Smith presents Unshuttered, a vivid p...
Such Color: New and Selected Poems
Such Color: New and Selected Poems Tracy K. Smith 9781644450673 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Celebrated for its extraordinary intelligence and exhilarating range, the poetry of Tracy K. Smith ...
Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems
Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems Danez Smith 9781555977856 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith―“Hallelujah is an understatement” (Patricia Smith)Award...
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah Patricia Smith 9781566892995 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Winner of 2013 Wheatley Book Award in PoetryFinalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams AwardWinner o...
B. Smith Cooks Southern-Style
B. Smith Cooks Southern-Style B. Smith 9781451671971 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Barbara Smith, the famed fashion model who was the first African American to appear on the ...
B. Smith Cooks Southern-Style
B. Smith Cooks Southern-Style B. Smith 9781416553540 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Barbara Smith, the famed fashion model who was the first African American to appear on the ...
B. Smith: Rituals & Celebrations
B. Smith: Rituals & Celebrations B. Smith 9780375502361 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House Television lifestyle expert B. Smith shares her passion and ideas for entertaining, cooking, and cr...
Meta Smith and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson
Meta Smith and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson MULTIPLE Meta Smith and 50 Cent are renowned authors known for their compelling storytelling. Smith's background in writing and 50 Cent's experiences in the mu...
Brian W. Smith and Keith Thomas Walker
Brian W. Smith and Keith Thomas Walker MULTIPLE Brian W. Smith and Keith Thomas Walker are acclaimed authors, renowned for their engaging narratives. Smith's work delves into life's complexities, whi...
Robin L. Smith and Courtney B. Vance
Robin L. Smith and Courtney B. Vance MULTIPLE "Robin L. Smith and Courtney B. Vance are renowned authors known for their compelling narratives. Smith's expertise lies in psychological thrillers while...