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Black Literature

Readers tell us about your favorite and not-so-favorite books. Authors and Publishers share information about your books. This forum is open to everyone interested in discussing anything related to books by, or about, Black people.

  1. Prolific Book To Challenge Africans and Friends Of Africa

    Guest Osei Badu-Nkansah,
    • 0 replies
    • 847 views
    Guest
    Guest

  2. What are YOU working on right now?!? 🤔

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 740 views
    Slaise

  3. Readers & REEL Folk - Episode 3; Amerie

    Amari,
    • 0 replies
    • 916 views
    Amari

  4. Satire in cotemporary fiction

    Guest Fatima Shaik,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Fatima Shaik

  5. Mirrors of Life: What is your life in the mirror?

    Neal Owens,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Neal Owens

  6. Wrongfully Accused - YA book featuring the IN-Justice System

    Mel Hopkins,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  7. Marcus Books fundraiser

    Guest Erika,
    • 0 replies
    • 766 views
    Guest
    Guest

  8. Excerpt entitled "Black America"

    Guest Roy McElroy,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.4k views
    wc.edwards

  9. The Harlem Book Fair 2000 and Events from 20 Years Ago

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Slaise

  10. O.W.'s iPad mini Sweepstakes (NO PURCHASE REQ)

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 790 views
    Slaise

  11. Ouch! A One Star Review

    Slaise,
    • 6 replies
    • 1.8k views
    Troy

  12. Readers & REEL Folk - EPISODE 2 Run with Maud

    Amari,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Amari

  13. Bringing Your Audience Outside of the Book

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 871 views
    Slaise

  14. Sisters. Of. The. Yam

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    harry brown

  15. 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winnering Books

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 892 views
    Troy

  16. What exactly is an immersive novel?

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 912 views
    Slaise

  17. Sista. Vegan

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 955 views
    harry brown

  18. A Debut Picture Book About Dance

    Guest Valerie Bolling,
    • 1 reply
    • 906 views
    Slaise

  19. What's Your Advice For Aspiring Writers

    Guest O.W. Showe,
    • 0 replies
    • 854 views
    Guest
    Guest

  20. Young, Black, Talented, and Alone

    Guest Nathan Alexander,
    • 1 reply
    • 906 views
    Troy

  21. The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing, is Back in Stock!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Troy

  22. Readers & REEL Folk - EPISODE 1 IT'S TIME 4 SOME R&R!

    Amari,
    • 0 replies
    • 797 views
    Amari

  23. 200 Letters, book recommendation

    Guest Amy Watkins,
    • 0 replies
    • 867 views
    Guest
    Guest

  24. Burning Desire.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 755 views
    harry brown

  25. Burning Desire.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 707 views
    harry brown

  26. Life. Upon These. Shores.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 865 views
    Troy

  27. The Importance of the “Literary Chitlin' Circuit”

    Troy,
    • 16 replies
    • 5.2k views
    Yvonne

  28. Book recommendation for 2020 Reading List

    Guest Veronica A. Davis, Author,
    • 0 replies
    • 755 views
    Guest
    Guest

  29. Join the Black Writers Facebook Group

    Michelle D. Jackson,
    • 0 replies
    • 718 views
    Michelle D. Jackson

  30. An Improbably Journey from Compton to Oxford

    Guest Shea Nolan,
    • 0 replies
    • 753 views
    Guest
    Guest

  31. Interest In Book Review

    Guest Star Jackson,
    • 0 replies
    • 794 views
    Guest
    Guest

  32. F@ck Amazon and Their "Amazon Original Stories"

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.5k views
    Maurice

  33. The New York Public Library Kicks off Immigrant Heritage Week 2020

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.4k views
    Troy

  34. Kasi Lemmons to Write and Direct Film Adaptation of Maaza Mengiste’s the Shadow King

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 979 views
    Troy

  35. Between. The. World. And. Me.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 834 views
    harry brown

  36. Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Guest Marea D. Cole,
    • 0 replies
    • 901 views
    Guest
    Guest

  37. Discussion of Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi on the Black Syllabus

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 985 views
    Troy

  38. Requesting That My Children's Book Be Reviewed

    Guest Jennifer Miller-Joseph,
    • 1 reply
    • 819 views
    Guest
    Guest

  39. INTERESTED IN HAVING MY BOOK REVIEWED

    Guest VANESSA "FLUFFY" MURRAY,
    • 0 replies
    • 722 views
    Guest
    Guest

  40. New black author

    Guest Dajon Powell,
    • 0 replies
    • 931 views
    Guest
    Guest

  41. The Other Madisons: The Lost History of A President's Black Family

    Guest Bettye Kearse (Author),
    • 0 replies
    • 953 views
    Guest
    Guest

  42. Book review

    Guest Rolanda,
    • 0 replies
    • 807 views
    Guest
    Guest

  43. Catherine Latimer

    Maurice,
    • 0 replies
    • 880 views
    Maurice

  44. More Than. Love.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 812 views
    harry brown

  45. BLACK SUPERNATURAL HORROR/

    harry brown,
    • 3 replies
    • 2.1k views
    Jaws R.

  46. Controversial YA Topics

    Walkman93,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.7k views
    Walkman93

  47. Uplifting Reads During The Time of COVID-19

    Marion Hill,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Marion Hill

  48. Asante Tales

    Guest Patrick Dua,
    • 0 replies
    • 755 views
    Guest
    Guest

  49. Book Review Request - African American History: The Untold Stories

    YLong,
    • 0 replies
    • 972 views
    YLong

  50. Book Review Request

    Guest Tonya Duncan Ellis,
    • 0 replies
    • 834 views
    Guest
    Guest

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