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A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler

by Lynell George

A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler Lynell George 9781626400634 Nonfiction Angel City Press Angel City Press Check out Lynell’s New York Times article on Octavia Butler “...

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Conversations With Octavia Butler

by Conseula Francis

Conversations With Octavia Butler Conseula Francis 9781604732757 Fiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Octavia Butler (1947-2006) spent the majority of her prolific c...

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Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

by Ibi Zoboi

Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler Ibi Zoboi 9780399187384 Nonfiction Dutton Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From the New York Times bestselling author and...

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Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler

by Alex Pierce and Mimi Mondal

Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler Alex Pierce and Mimi Mondal 9781922101440 Nonfiction Twelfth Planet Press Twelfth Planet Press Luminescent Threads celebrates Octavia E. Butler, a...

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Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler

by Susana M. Morris

Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler Susana M. Morris 9780063212077 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest...

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Positive Obsession (paperback): The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler

by Susana M. Morris

Positive Obsession (paperback): The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler Susana M. Morris 9780063211834 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of ...

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Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set

by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set Octavia E. Butler 9781609809553 Fiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press The African American Book Club will be moderating a discussion o...

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Bloodchild and Other Stories

by Octavia E. Butler

Bloodchild and Other Stories Octavia E. Butler 9781583226988 Fiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times N...

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Fledgling: A Novel

by Octavia E. Butler

Fledgling: A Novel Octavia E. Butler 9781583226902 Fiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alar...

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On Witness and Respair: Essays

by Jesmyn Ward

On Witness and Respair: Essays Jesmyn Ward 9781668064269 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, inclu...

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New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

by Nisi Shawl

New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color Nisi Shawl 9781786188588 Fiction Solaris Simon & Schuster, Inc. The stunning follow-up to the multiple-award-winning anthology of SFF by peo...

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The Perishing

by Natashia Deón

The Perishing Natashia Deón 9781640093027 Fiction Counterpoint Counterpoint A Black immortal in 1930’s Los Angeles must recover the memory of her past in order to discover who she truly is in this ext...

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Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

by adrienne maree brown

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds adrienne maree brown 9781849352604 Nonfiction AK Press AK Press In the tradition of Octavia Butler, radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help ...

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Black Arts: Stories

by Megan Giddings

Black Arts: Stories Megan Giddings 9780063352797 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The first story collection from the critically acclaimed author of Lakewood, The Women Could Fly, and Meet Me at the Cros...

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Everything But Typical: Influential Neurodivergent People Who Have Shaped the World

by Margeaux Weston

Everything But Typical: Influential Neurodivergent People Who Have Shaped the World Margeaux Weston 9781547614110 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing Celebrate remarkable neurod...

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Every Where Alien

by Brad Walrond

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...

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Unraveling

by Karen Lord

Unraveling Karen Lord 9780593598467 Fiction Del Rey Del Rey The search for a notorious serial killer takes a therapist on a nightmarish quest to an alternate world to find the sinister secret behind h...

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The Savion Sequence

by D. Amari Jackson

The Savion Sequence D. Amari Jackson 9780979637469 Fiction AALBC Aspire African American Literature Book Club Join Our Book Discussion on Zoom ● October 25, 2026 ● 2 p.m. EDT Also Available in ...

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The Savion Sequence (paperback)

by D. Amari Jackson

The Savion Sequence (paperback) D. Amari Jackson 9780979637452 Fiction AALBC Aspire African American Literature Book Club Join Our Book Discussion on Zoom ● October 25, 2026 ● 2 p.m. EDT Also A...

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Maroons: A Grievers Novel (Grievers Trilogy, Book 2)

by adrienne maree brown

Maroons: A Grievers Novel (Grievers Trilogy, Book 2) adrienne maree brown 9781849354806 Fiction AK Press AK Press ★ “brown’s sensational second contribution to AK Press’s Black Dawn series … Equ...

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The Women Could Fly

by Megan Giddings

The Women Could Fly Megan Giddings 9780063116993 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acc...

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Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen

by George McCalman

Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen George McCalman 9780062913234 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins From an award-winning graphic designer comes this gorgeous collection that ...

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Infinitum: An Afrofuturist Tale

by Tim Fielder

Infinitum: An Afrofuturist Tale Tim Fielder 9780062964083 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Sure to become a treasured collectible, a gorgeous, groundbreaking, full-color Afrofuturist graphic novel that c...

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A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope

by Patrice Caldwell

A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope Patrice Caldwell 9781984835659 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Sixteen tales by bestsel...

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100+ Black Women in Horror

by Sumiko Saulson

100+ Black Women in Horror Sumiko Saulson 9781387587469 Fiction Lulu Lulu Containing the biographies of over one hundred black women who write horror, 100+ Black Women in Horror is a reference guide, ...

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Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic

by Michelle D. Commander

Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic Michelle D. Commander 9780822363231 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books In Afro-Atlantic Flight, Michel...

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The Cherokee Rose

by Tiya Miles

The Cherokee Rose Tiya Miles 9780895876355 Fiction John F. Blair, Publisher John F. Blair, Publisher The Cherokee Rose, written by Tiya Miles, award-winning historian and recipient of a recent MacArth...

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The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora

by Giselle Liza Anatol

The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora Giselle Liza Anatol 9780813565736 Nonfiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Pr...

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Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture

by Ytasha L. Womack

Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture Ytasha L. Womack 9781613747964 Fiction Chicago Review Press Chicago Review Press 2014 Locus Awards Finalist, Nonfiction Category In this hip...

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A Wish After Midnight

by Zetta Elliott

A Wish After Midnight Zetta Elliott 9780982555057 Fiction Skyscape Amazon Publishing “Although there is plenty of history embedded in the novel, A Wish After Midnight is written with a lyrical grace t...

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