Black Voices

Fiction

  • Baldwin, James The Fire Next Time.

  • Brinkley, Jamel A Lucky Man: Stories.

  • Coates, Ta-Nehisi The Water Dancer.

  • Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man.

  • Gray, Anissa The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls.

  • Holmes, J.M. How Are You Going to Save Yourself?

  • Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God.

  • Jones, Tayari An American Marriage.

  • McMillan, Terry I Almost Forgot About You.

  • Morrison, Toni The Bluest Eye.

  • Mosley, Walter John Woman.

  • Roby, Kimberly Lawson Copycat.

  • Souljah, Sister The Coldest Winter Ever.

  • Walker, Alice The Color Purple.

  • Ward, Jesmyn Sing, Unburied, Sing.

  • Whitehead, Colson The Underground Railroad.

 

Nonfiction

  • Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

  • Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: an American Slave.

  • Dyson, Michael Eric What Truth Sounds Like: Robert Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America.

  • DuBois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk.

  • Gates, Henry Louis Jr. 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro.

  • Giovanni, Nikki A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter.

  • Haley, Alex The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

  • Hansberry, Lorraine A Raisin in the Sun.

  • Hinton, Anthony Ray The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row.

  • Hurston, Zora Neale Baracoon: the Story of the Last "Black Cargo."

  • Lewis, John March.

  • Shakur, Tupac The Rose That Grew From Concrete.

  • Smiley, Tavis My Journey with Maya.

  • Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Our Selves: An Anthology.

  • West, Cornel Race Matters.

  • Wilson, August Fences.

  • Wright, Richard Black Boy.

 

Authors

  • James Baldwin

  • Octavia E. Butler

  • Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Eric Jerome Dickey

  • Michael Eric Dyson

  • Ralph Ellison

  • Ernest J. Gaines

  • Henry Louis Gates Jr.

  • Nikki Giovanni

  • E. Lynn Harris

  • Langston Hughes

  • Zora Neale Hurston

  • Brenda Jackson

  • Marlon James

  • Beverly Jenkins

  • Terry McMillan

  • Mary Monroe

  • Toni Morrison

  • Walter Mosley

  • Kimberla Lawson Roby

  • Ntozake Shange

  • Tavis Smiley

  • Alice Walker

  • Jesmyn Ward

  • Carl Weber

  • Colson Whitehead

  • Zane

 

List compiled by Adult Services, Fox Lake District Library, 2020.

 

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