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Ansa, Tina McElroy

1: Ugly Ways
2: The Hand I Fan With

Bakeer, Donald

Crips

Baker, Calvin

Naming the New World

Beatty, Paul

The White Boy Shuffle

Berry, Charlene

Love’s Deception

R

Berry, Venise

So Good

Bland, Eleanor Taylor

1: Done Wrong
2: See No Evil

M
M

Brown, Linda Beatrice

Crossing Over Jordon

Briscoe, Connie

1: Sisters and Lovers
2: Big Girls Don’t Cry

Bunkley, Anita

Balancing Act

Burton, Levar

Aftermath

SF

Butler, Octavia

Parable of the Sower

SF

Campbell, Bebe Moore

1: Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine
2: Singing in the Comeback Choir

Cary, Lorene

1: The Price of a Child
2: Pride

Chase-Riboud Barbara

1: An Echo of Lions
2: Sally Hennings

Clair, Maxine

Rattlebone

Cleage, Pearl

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Coleman, Evelyn

What a Woman’s Gotta Do

Conde, Maryse

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Cooper, J California

1: Homemade Love
2: The Wake of the Wind

Copeland, Sheila

Chocolate Star

Corbin, Steve

A Hundred Days from Now

Danticat, Edwidge

1: Breath Eyes Memory
2: The Farming of Bones

D’Aguiar, Fred

The Longest Memory

DeBerry, Virginia

Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You Made

Delany, Samuel R.

Atlantis

SF

Deloach, Nora

Mama Rocks the Empty Cradle

M

Dickey, Eric Jerome

1: Sister Sister
2: Friends and Lovers
3: Milk in my Coffee

Due, Tananarive

1: My Soul to Keep
2: The Between

Edwards, Grace

If I Should Die

M

Echewa, T.O.

I Saw the Sky Catch Fire

Ellis, Trey

Home Repairs

Ellison, Ralph

Flying Home

Everett, Percival

Frenzy

Files, Lolita

Scenes from a Sistah

Flowers, A.R.

Another Good Loving Blues

Foster, Cecil

No Man in the House

French, Albert

Patches of Fire

Gaines, Ernest

A Lesson Before Dying

Golden, Marita

1: And Do Remember Me
2: The Edge of Heaven

Greene, Gloria

Love Unveiled

R

Greene, Patricia

The Sabbath Garden

YA

Greer, Bonnie

Hanging by Her Teeth

Greer, Robert

1: The Devil’s Red Nickle
2: The Devil’s Husband

M
M

Grooms, Anthony

Trouble No More

Guy, Rosa

1: The Sun, the Sea, a Touch of Wind
2: Edith Jackson

 
YA

Hardy, James Earl

B-Boy Blues, If Only for One Night

Harris, E Lynn

1: Just as I Am
2: If This World Were Mine

Haynes, David

1: Somebody Else’s Mama
2: All American Dream Dolls

Haywood, Gar Anthony

Dupe

Haywood, Anthony

It’s Not a Pretty Sight

M

Headley, Victor

Yardie

Heard, Nathan

House of Slammers

Herron, Caroliva

Thereafter Johnnie

Hill, Ernest

Satisfied with Nothing

Himes, Chester

Yesterday Will Make You Cry (written 1939)

Jackson, Brian Keith

The View From Here

Sheneska Jackson

1: Caught Up in the Rapture
2: Lil Mama’s Rules
3: Blessings

Jackson-Opuku, S

The River Where Blood is Born

James, Kelvin

Fling with a Demon Lover

Joe, Yolanda

1: He Say-She Say
2: Bebe’s by Golly Wow

Jones, Gayl

The Healing

Keene, John

Annotations

Kenan, Randall

A Visitation of Spirits

Kincaid, Jamaica

Autobiography of my Mother

Kitt, Sandra

1: Significant Others
2: The Color of Lover
3: Between Friends

Ladd, Florence

Sarah’s Psalm

Lattany, Kristin

1: God Bless the Child
2: Kinfolks

Lee, Helen Elaine

Serpent’s Gift

Lester, Julius

And All Our Wounds Forgiven

Little, Benilde

1: Good Hair
2: The Itch

McLarin, Kim

Taming It Down

Magona, Sindewe

1: Living, Loving, and Lying
2: Awake at Night

Major, Clarence

Dirty Bird Blues

Major, Devorah

An Open Weave

Maraire, Nozipo K

Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter

Marshall, Paule

Daughters

McEachin, James

1: Farewell to the Mockingbirds
2: Tell Me a Tale

McKinney-Whetsone D

1: Tumbling,
2: Tempest Rising

McKnight, Reginald

White Boys

McMillan, Terry

1: Mama
2: Waiting to Exhale
3: Disappearing Acts
4: How Stella Got Her Grove

McMillan, Roslyn

1: Knowing
2: One Better
3: Blue Collar Blues

Mickelbury, Penny

1: Night Songs
2: One Must Wait

M
M

Mitchell, Sharon

Nothing But the Rent

Morrison, Toni

1: Beloved
2: Jazz
3: Paradise

Mosely, Walter

1: Devil in a Blue Dress
2: Blue Light

M
 

Murray, Albert

The Seven-League Boots

Naylor, Gloria

1: The Women of Brewster Place
2: Bailey’s Cafe
3: The Men of Brewster’s Place

Neely, Barbara

Blanche Among the Talented Tenth

M

Newton, Lionel

Things to be Lost

Nicogba, Lauretta

And They Don’t Die

Parker, Gwendolyn

These Same Long Bones

Pate, Alexis

Amistad

Perry, Phyllis Alesia

Stigmata

Phillips, Caryl

1: Crossing the River
2: The Nature of Blood

Porter, Connie

All-Bright Court

Powell, Patricia

Pagoda

Raymond, Linda

Rocking the Babies

Reed, Ishmael

1: Flight to Canada
2: Reckless Eyeballing

Rhodes, Jewell Parker

Voodoo Dreams

Riley, Len

Harlem

Ritz, David

Passion Flowers

Sallis, James

Black Hornet

Sanders, Dori

1: Her Own Place
2: Clover

Sapphire

Push

Senna, Danzy

Caucasia

Shange, Ntozake

Liliane

Shell, Ray

Iced

Sherman, Charlotte W

1: Touch
2: One Dark Body

Sinclair, April

1: Coffee Will Make You Black
2: Ain’t Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice

Summers, Barbara

The Price You Pay

Tervalon, Jervey

Understand This

Thomas-Graham Paula

A Darker Shade of Crimson

M

Trice, Dawn Turner

Only Twice I’ve Wished for Heaven

Tyree, Omar

1: Flyy Girls
2: A Do-Right Man
3: Single Mom

Verdelle, A.J.

The Good Negress

Wade, Brent

Company Man

Walker, Alice

1: The Color Purple
2: By the Light of My Father’s Smile

Welch-Tyson, Delorys

Gingersnaps

Wesley, Valerie Wilson

1: Where Evil Sleeps
2: Easier to Kill

M
M

West, Dorothy

The Wedding

Wideman, John Edgar

1: The Cattle Killing
2: Two Cities

Williams-Garcia, Rita

1: Like Sisters on the Home Front
2: Fast Talk on a Slow Track

YA
YA

Youngblood, Shay

1: The Big Mama Stories
2: Soul Kiss