Fiction from African American Authors
in celebration of Black History Month

Go Tell it On the Mountain
James Baldwin

Lion’s Blood:  A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America
Steven Barnes

A Dark and Deadly Deception*
Eleanor Taylor Bland

Can’t Get Enough
Connie Briscoe

Upstate
Kalisha Buckhanon

Kindred
Octavia E. Butler

72 Hour Hold
Bebe Moore Campbell

When Did You Stop Loving Me?
Veronica Chambers

Some People, Some Other Place
J. California Cooper

The Dew Breaker
Edwidge Danticat

Gotta Keep on Tryin’
Virginia DeBerry

Sleeping with Strangers
Eric Jerome Dickey

Acacia. Book One, the War with the Mein
David Anthony Durham

Tastes Like Chicken
Lolita Files

I Can’t Wait on God
Albert French

A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines

Bourbon Street
Leonce Gaiter

I Say a Little Prayer
E. Lynn Harris

Angel Of Harlem: A Novel Based on the Life of Dr. May Chinn
Kuwana Haulsey

The Moaner’s Bench
Mars Hill

Short Stories of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston

Blessings
Sheneska Jackson

Soulcatcher and Other Stories
Charles Richard Johnson

All Aunt Hagar’s Children
Edward P. Jones

Mr. Potter
Jamaica Kincaid

Who Does She Think She Is?
Benilde Little

A Family Affair
Marcus Major

Distant Lover
Gloria Mallette

Nowhere is a Place
Bernice L. McFadden

Ms. Etta's Fast House
Victor McGlothin

The Interruption of Everything
Terry McMillan

Leaving Cecil Street
Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Love
Toni Morrison

Blonde Faith*
Walter Mosley

Bailey’s Café
Gloria Naylor

Changing Faces
Kimberla Lawson Roby

All I Need to Get By
Sophfronia Scott

The Blackbird Papers
Ian Smith

Riding dirty on I-95
Nikki Turner

The Last Street Novel
Omar Tyree

The Color Purple
Alice Walker

Dying In The Dark*
Valerie Wilson Wesley

The Wedding
Dorothy West

Pepperfish Keys: A Detective Barrett Raines Mystery*
Darryl Wimberley

Nervous
Zane

*part of a series

This is not an exhaustive list. To find more African American authors, contact Readers Services or Information Services, or visit the African American Literature Book Club (AALBC) online at http://www.aalbc.com/

Black History Month
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history-month
Explore the history of Black History Month, a celebration of achievements by African Americans and important milestones throughout U.S. history.

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