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Colson Whitehead Wins National Book Award for, The Underground Railroa
Colson Whitehead Wins National Book Award for, The Underground Railroa Book Spotlights
Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead 0000000109128041 Congrats to Colson Whitehead: Winner 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Colson Whitehead, born in 1969, is an acclaimed writer who began his career at the Village Voice....
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, And Death
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, And Death Colson Whitehead 9780385537056 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House The Noble Hustle is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whitehead’s hilarious memoir of his sea...
The Underground Railroad: A Novel
The Underground Railroad: A Novel Colson Whitehead 9780385542364 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Every now and then a book comes along that reaches the marrow of your bones, settles in, and sta...
The Colossus Of New York
The Colossus Of New York Colson Whitehead 9781400031245 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exub...
The Nickel Boys
The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead 9780345804341 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Und...
The Nickel Boys: A Novel
The Nickel Boys: A Novel Colson Whitehead 9780385537070 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestsel...
John Henry Days
John Henry Days Colson Whitehead 9780385498203 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House Colson Whitehead’s eagerly awaited and triumphantly acclaimed new novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of...
Cool Machine
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead 9780385550505 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly ent...
Crook Manifesto
Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead 9780385545150 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertai...
Electric Literature No.2
Electric Literature No.2 Colson Whitehead 9780982498019 Fiction Electric Literature Electric Literature In our Autumn 2009 anthology, Colson Whitehead charts the rise to fame of a truth-telling come...
The Intuitionist: A Novel
The Intuitionist: A Novel Colson Whitehead 9780385493000 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an impor...
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead 9780345804327 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House
Kathy Whitehead
Kathy Whitehead NONE Kathy Whitehead, a former elementary teacher, now writes children's literature inspired by her love for history. Her work includes a picture book biography about African-American...
Harlem Shuffle
Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead 9780525567271 Fiction Anchor Books Penguin Random House New York Times Bestseller From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The...
Zone One: A Novel
Zone One: A Novel Colson Whitehead Excerpt A 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominated Book He always wanted to live in New York. His Uncle Lloyd lived downtown on Lafayette, and in the long s...
The Between
The Between Tananarive Due 9780063157675 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Award-winning author and Black Horror scholar Tananarive Due’s 1995 debut novel, The Between is reissued with a new fore...
Zone One: A Novel
Zone One: A Novel Robert Fleming Book Review As one of the finest word craftsmen of his generation, Colson Whitehead has shown a high degree of imaginative skill and creativity, turning each genre ...
Crook Manifesto (paperback)
Crook Manifesto (paperback) Colson Whitehead 9780525567288 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle ...
Black Buck
Black Buck Mateo Askaripour 9780358627982 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt “Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing novel, executing a high wire act full of ver...
Sag Harbor
Sag Harbor Colson Whitehead 9780307455161 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House A warm, funny, and supremely original new novel from one of the most acclaimed writers in America. The year is 1985. Benj...
Zone One: A Novel
Zone One: A Novel Colson Whitehead 9780307455178 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted h...
Apex Hides the Hurt: A Novel
Apex Hides the Hurt: A Novel Colson Whitehead 9781400031269 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call ...
April 18, 2017 Newsletter: New Books, Vote for Your Favorite Author, and More
April 18, 2017 Newsletter: New Books, Vote for Your Favorite Author, and More Troy Johnson Article AALBC.com Congratulates all the Winners of Pulitzer Prizes in the Letters and Drama Categories Fict...
Hope Wins: A Collection of Inspiring Stories for Young Readers
Hope Wins: A Collection of Inspiring Stories for Young Readers Rose Brock 9780593463956 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House From Matt de la Peña and Veera Hiranandani to Max Brallier and R....
Underground Publishing
Underground Publishing Underground Publishing Underground Publishing
Underground Publishing
Underground Publishing Underground Publishing Underground Publishing
History Smashers: The Underground Railroad
History Smashers: The Underground Railroad Kate Messner 9780593428931 Nonfiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Myths! Lies! Secrets! Uncover the hidden truth about the Unde...
My Favorite Readings from the 2013 National Book Award Finalists
My Favorite Readings from the 2013 National Book Award Finalists Troy Johnson Article I covered this year's National Book Foundation's National Book Awards Finalists Reading for AALBC.com. The readin...
Blood Slaves
Blood Slaves Markus Redmond 9781496753168 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. For fans of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and readers of Victor LaValle, Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, and Colson ...
Slumberland: A Novel
Slumberland: A Novel Paul Beatty 9781596912410 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Critical darling Paul Beatty’s highly original, widely praised novel of race, identity, and underground musi...
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad Ann Petry 9780062691309 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins This quintessential middle grade biography of Harriet Tubman now features a cover by NAAC...
Betty DeRamus
Betty DeRamus NONE Betty DeRamus is an award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist known for her nonfiction books on slavery and post-slavery era. Her works, “Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories f...
Joe Louis
Joe Louis 0000000081503179 “You can run, but you can’t hide.” Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981) was n professional boxer who reigned as world heavyweight cha...
Underground Codes: Race, Crime, and Related Fires
Underground Codes: Race, Crime, and Related Fires Katheryn Russell-Brown 9780814775417 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press Winner of a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book A...
Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany 0000000109208949 Samuel R. Delany, a renowned author of science fiction and nonfiction, is known for works like Dhalgren and The Mad Man. A former English and Creative Writing profes...
The Tortoise or the Hare
The Tortoise or the Hare Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781416983347 Fiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Everyone knows that in the story of the Tortoise and the Hare the slow and st...
Dear Miss Metropolitan: A Novel
Dear Miss Metropolitan: A Novel Carolyn Ferrell 9781250839015 Fiction Holt Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway...
Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics
Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics Tim McLoughlin 9781888451764 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books On the heels of the stunning success of the Summer ’04 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir, this secon...
Freedom’s a-Callin Me
Freedom’s a-Callin Me Ntozake Shange 9780061337413 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Award-winning poet Ntozake Shange and artist Rod Brown reimagine the journeys of the brave men and women who made th...
Harriet Tubman: Conductor On The Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman: Conductor On The Underground Railroad Ann Petry 9780064461818 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The Horn Book called this classic biography of Harriet Tubman an "unusually well-written ...
Burn Down Master’s House
Burn Down Master’s House Clay Cane 9781496759146 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Inspired by long-buried true stories of enslaved people who dared to fight back, this powerful novel offers ...
Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom
Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom Shane W. Evans 9781250056757 Nonfiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers One of School Library Journal’s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year. A few well chos...
Underground Books
Underground Books Sacramento CA Underground Books, founded in summer 2003 by St. HOPE (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit), anchors the 40 Acres Cultural Center in Oak Park. After the community lost its only libra...
On Percival Everett
On Percival Everett African American Literature Book Club Article I think Erasure by Percival Everett is the first great manifesto for literature by African Americans in the 21st century. I beli...
Ann Fights for Freedom: An Underground Railroad Survival Story
Ann Fights for Freedom: An Underground Railroad Survival Story Nikki Shannon Smith 9781496578532 Fiction Stone Arch Books Capstone Press Twelve-year-old Ann understands there is only one thing to be g...
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy LaShawn Harris 9780252081668 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press During ...
Lies Uncovered The Truth About the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys: The Long Journey Home
Lies Uncovered The Truth About the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys: The Long Journey Home Duane C. Fernandez B08BJGJ41C Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Colson Whitehead’s P...
Ibram X. Kendi Wins National Book Award for Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi Wins National Book Award for Stamped from the Beginning Book Spotlights
Civil Rights Icon, John Lewis Wins National Book Award!
Civil Rights Icon, John Lewis Wins National Book Award! Book Spotlights
Art from Her Heart: Folk Artist Clementine Hunter
Art from Her Heart: Folk Artist Clementine Hunter Kathy Whitehead 9780399242199 Nonfiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A picture book biography of the remarkable fo...
Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat 000000011051509X Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian-born author, is renowned for her books like “Breath, Eyes, Memory”, an Oprah Book Club pick, and “The Farming of Bones”, an American Book...
William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad
William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad Don Tate 9781561459353 Nonfiction Peachtree Publishers Peachtree Publishers From Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning author-illu...
James Ransome
James Ransome 0000000030399412 James E. Ransome is an award-winning illustrator known for his children's books. His accolades include the Coretta Scott King Award, IBBY Honor Award, and NAACP Image A...
Man Called Horse: John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad
Man Called Horse: John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad Glennette Tilley Turner 9781419749339 Nonfiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams From award-winning children’s author Glennette...
Glennette Tilley Turner
Glennette Tilley Turner NONE Glennette Tilley Turner has also written collections of biographies of notable African Americans for adults and serves as an advisor to the National Park Service, where s...
Sacramento BlkLit Book Fest
Sacramento BlkLit Book Fest Underground Books and The Guild Theater Sacramento California The Sac BlkLit Book Fest is a one-day celebration of Black literature, culture, and community in Sacramento. T...
Ellen Levine
Ellen Levine 0000000115622847 Author Ellen Levine is captivated by tales of justice and extraordinary feats by ordinary people, like Henry “Box” Brown's escape as depicted in The Underground Railroad...
36 African-American Nominees for National Book Awards
36 African-American Nominees for National Book Awards Troy Johnson Article November 11, 2015 Update: A complete list of National Book Award Honorees, of African descent, is now available. The mi...
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground Zayd Ayers Dohrn 9781324089315 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A New York Times ...
Kekla Magoon
Kekla Magoon 0000000040185776 Kekla Magoon, an award-winning author of eight YA novels, including The Rock and the River and X: A Novel, also pens non-fiction on historical topics. She's won an NAACP...
Every Where Alien
Every Where Alien Brad Walrond 9780063377998 Poetry Moore Black Press/Amistad HarperCollins “Every Where Alien is a book that asks for interaction and understanding… . Brad Walrond defies aesthetic bo...
The First Family: A Dark Academia Fantasy
The First Family: A Dark Academia Fantasy Granger 9798347021796 Fiction Podium Publishing Podium Publishing Beneath Atlanta lies a hidden world of magic and murder known as the Underground. And its se...
Underground: Finding The Light To Freedom
Underground: Finding The Light To Freedom Shane W. Evans 9781596435384 Fiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers A family silently crawls along the ground. They run barefoot through unlit woods,...
Like a Broken Doll-Urban Underground
Like a Broken Doll-Urban Underground Anne Schraff 9781616510053 Fiction Saddleback Educational Publishing Saddleback Educational Publishing Accusations fly when a string of thefts hit Tubman High Scho...
Free!: Great Escapes From Slavery On The Underground Railroad
Free!: Great Escapes From Slavery On The Underground Railroad Lorene Cary 9780883782682 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Stories based upon actual incidents of Black people escaping from...
The Underground Railroad in Illinois
The Underground Railroad in Illinois Glennette Tilley Turner 9780938990055 Nonfiction Newman Educational Publishing Company Newman Educational Publishing Company Uses maps, rare photographs, backgroun...
Teresa Kemp
Teresa Kemp NONE Teresa R. Kemp, a 5th-generation quilter and military historian, is a passionate advocate for cultural preservation and anti-human trafficking. She's a graduate of WVSU and DeVry Uni...
How is African American Literature Really Doing?
How is African American Literature Really Doing? Troy Johnson Article For those in the business of Black books in America, this is a common question; “How is African American Literature Doing?” Some...
2016 National Black Writers Conference
2016 National Black Writers Conference Troy Johnson Article Update: March 25, 2016 The Conference's Complete and final Schedule of Events is Now Available. Greetings Colleagues, We are excited a...
The Tiki Factor: 4 Key Principles to Turn Your Losses Into Wins
The Tiki Factor: 4 Key Principles to Turn Your Losses Into Wins Tiki Davis 9780063346345 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this modern-day Pursuit of Happyness, Tiki Davis shares his inspiring journ...
Karen’s Prize: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #10)
Karen’s Prize: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #10) Shauna J. Grant 9781546110071 Fiction Graphix Scholastic Inc. Another graphic novel in this fun series spin-off of The Baby-sitters Club...
Duel
Duel Jessixa Bagley 9781534496552 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A rivalry between sisters culminates in a fencing duel in this funny and emotional debut graph...
Angela Flournoy
Angela Flournoy 0000000436914613 Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House, a National Book Award finalist, has been recognized with numerous awards including the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. A Nat...
Nathan Harris
Nathan Harris 0000000047365403 A 2021 National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree Nathan Harris, an award-winning author, holds an MFA from the University of Texas and lives in Austin. K...
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062215918 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A National Book Award Longlist title that has earned 5 starred reviews!"This slim novel strikes a strong ...
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates 0000000036544350 “I’ve been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died…clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates.” —To...
John Keene
John Keene 0000000032165978 Winner 2022 National Book Award for Poetry John Keene, acclaimed author known for Annotations, has been published in various anthologies and journals, earning several award...
Adrian Matejka
Adrian Matejka 0000000037525872 Adrian Matejka is a Germany-born, Indiana-based author and educator. A graduate of Indiana University and Southern Illinois University Carbondale, he has penned award-...
Karen Eubanks Jackson
Karen Eubanks Jackson NONE Karen Eubanks Jackson, a 27-year, four-time breast cancer survivor, is the founder and CEO of Sisters Network Inc., the only nationwide African American breast cancer survi...
Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes 0000000052553847 Terrance Hayes is a renowned poet, author of four collections and winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry. A MacArthur fellow, Hayes has received numerous ac...
Itah Sadu
Itah Sadu NONE Itah Sadu, an award-winning author and bookstore owner, is known for sharing diverse oral traditions and creating youth programs. She's a founder of several initiatives like the Emanci...
Dreamer: A Novel
Dreamer: A Novel Charles Johnson 9780684854434 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the National Book Award-winning author of Middle Passage, a fearless fictional portrait of Dr. ...
Deborah Wiles
Deborah Wiles 0000000058444035 Deborah Wiles is an award-winning author known for acclaimed books like 'Each Little Bird that Sings' & 'Revolution'. Her accolades include National Book Award nominati...
Black Writers Dominate the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes
Black Writers Dominate the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes Troy Johnson Article Back in January of this year, I took the time to try to figure out how many Black writers have won Pulitzer Prizes in the six ...
Shelby Steele
Shelby Steele 0000000117385953 Shelby Steele is an award-winning author, columnist, and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow. Renowned for his study on race relations and cultural issues, Steele's work h...
Hilton Als
Hilton Als 0000000106528066 Congrats to Hilton Als: Winner 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism Hilton Als, an associate professor of writing at Columbia University, is an award-winning author and critic...
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad Ellen Levine 9780439777339 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom b...
National Geographic Books
National Geographic Books National Geographic Society National Geographic National Geographic Children’s Books National Geographic Kids National Geographic Society Under the Stars
David Covin
David Covin 0000000084071877 David Covin was a Professor Emeritus of Government and Ethnic Studies at CSU Sacramento and Past President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. He wa...
National Book Awards
National Book Awards Cipriani Wall Street New York New York Attendance by invitation only. All of the authors of African descent who have won a National Book Award. Watch vidoes the 67th annual Nati...
Amina Gautier
Amina Gautier 0000000118109950 Dr. Amina Gautier, an award-winning author of three short story collections, is a scholar and professor specializing in African American literature. She teaches in the ...
Lost in the Tunnel of Time, 2 (Reissue)
Lost in the Tunnel of Time, 2 (Reissue) Sharon M. Draper 9781442427044 Fiction Aladdin Paperbacks Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this second book of the classic chapter book series by award-winning author ...
Vagabonds!
Vagabonds! Eloghosa Osunde 9780593330036 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the...
Susan Keeter
Susan Keeter NONE Susan Keeter has illustrated over a dozen titles, including picture books on Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman and 18th-century poet Phillis Wheatley. Susan Keeter has ...
The Black Dot
The Black Dot NONE The Black Dot is renowned for his insight into the metaphysical aspects of Hip Hop, contributing to various media outlets and authoring the game-changing book, “Hip Hop Decoded.” A...
Mercy (American Poets Continuum)
Mercy (American Poets Continuum) Lucille Clifton 9781929918553 Poetry BOA Editions BOA Editions Lucille Clifton’s poetry carries her deep concerns for the world’s children, the stratification of Ameri...
Scavenger: A Mystery
Scavenger: A Mystery Christopher Chambers 9781941110942 Fiction Three Rooms Press Three Rooms Press In the lively, but desperate world of D.C.’s underbelly, a Black homeless man must quickly learn the...
Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward 0000000049339751 Two-Time National Book Award Winning Author Jesmyn Ward, a Mississippi-born author and University of South Alabama professor, has penned novels like “Where the Line Bleeds...
Donika Kelly
Donika Kelly 0000000497770596 Donika Kelly, award-winning author of 'Bestiary', is celebrated for her contributions to poetry with accolades like the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and 2018 Kate Tufts ...