African-American Fiction Bibliography
 
Amoss, Berthe The Chalk Cross
Ansa, Tina Baby of the Family
The Hand I Fan With
Ugly Ways 
You Know Better: A Novel
Austin, Doris Jean  After the Garden 
Balwin, James Another Country 
Blues for Mr. Charlie 
The Fire Next Time 
Giovanni's Room 
Go Tell it on the Mountain
Going to Meet the Man 
If Beale Street Could Talk 
Just Above My Head 
Nobody Knows My Name 
No Name in the Street 
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone 
The Black Woman 
Bambara, Toni Cade  Gorilla, My Love
The Salt Eaters
The Sea Birds are Still Alive
Baraka, Amiri  Tales 
The System of Dante's Hell 
Bonner, Marita  Fry Street and Environs 
Bontemps, Arna  Black Thunder
Drums at Dusk 
God Sends Sunday 
Bradley, David The Chaneysville Incident 
South Street 
Briscoe, Connie A Long Way From Home
Big  Girls Don't Cry
  Can't Get Close Enough
  P.G. County
Sisters and Lovers
Brown, William Wells  Clotel(le) 
Butler, Octavia  Adulthood Rites 
  Bloodchild
Clay's Ark 
Dawn 
  Fledgling
Imago 
Kindred 
Mind of My Mind 
Parable of the Sower 
Patternmaster 
  Seed to Harvest
Survivor 
Wild Seed 
Cain, George  Blueschild Baby
Campbell, Bebe Moore 72 Hour Hold
  Brothers and Sisters 
Singing in the Comeback Choir
What You Owe Me
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine 
Cartier, Xam Wilson  Be-Bop, Re-Bop 
Muse-Echo Blues 
Chesnutt, Charles  The Colonel's Dream 
The Conjure Woman 
The House Behind the Cedars 
The Marrow of Tradition 
The Wife of his Youth 
Clair, Maxine Rattlebone 
Cliff, Michelle  Abeng 
No Telephone to Heaven 
Cooper, J. California  A Piece of Mine 
Family 
Homemade Love 
Some Soul to Keep
The Matter is Life
Childress, Alice  Like One of the Family 
Cullen, Countee  One Way to Heaven 
Delaney, Samuel  My Pocket Live Grains of Sand
Demby, William  Love Story 
The Catacombs 
Dickey, Eric Jerome Between Lovers
  Changing Destiny
Cheaters
  Drive Me Crazy
Friends and Lovers
  Genevieve
Liars Game
Milk in My Coffee
  Naughty or Nice
Sister Sister
  Sleeping With Strangers
  The Other Woman
Thieves' Paradise
  Walking With Enemies
Dixon, Melvin  Vanishing Rooms 
DuBois, W.E.B The Quest of the Silver Fleece 
Due, Tanarive The Between 
  The Good House
Edwards, Grace Yearwood 
Edwards, Louis Ten  Seconds
Ellis, Trey  Platitudes 
Ellison, Ralph juneteenth
The Invisible Man
Everett, Percival Suder 
Fauset, Jessie Redmon  Plum Bun 
The Chinaberry Tree
There is Confusion 
Flanagan, Brenda You Alone are Dancing
Flowers, A.R.  Another Good Loving Blues
De Mojo Blues
Forrest, Leon The Bloodworth Orphans 
There is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden
Two Wings to Veil My Face 
French, Albert  Billy 
Gaines, Ernest  A Gathering of Old Men 
A Lesson Before Dying 
Bloodline 
Catherine Carmier 
In My Father's House 
Of Love and Dust
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 
Golden, Marita  And Do Remember Me
Long Distance Life 
A Woman's Place
Grimes, Terris McMahon  Blood Will Tell 
Somebody Else's Child 
Harris, E. Lynn A Love of My Own
  Abide With Me
And This Too Shall Pass
  Any Way the Wind Blows
  I Say a Little Prayer
If This World Were Mine
Invisible Life
Just as I Am 
Not a Day Goes By
Haynes, David All American Dream Dolls 
Heathens 
Live at Five 
Right By My Side
Somebody Else's Mama
Heard, Nathan  Howard Street
Herron, Carolivia
Hill, Donna
Thereafter Johnnie 
If I Could
Himes, Chester  All Shot Up 
Black on Black 
Blind Man With a Pistol
Cast the First Stone 
Cotton Comes to Harlem 
Pinktoes 
The Big Gold Dream
The Heat's On
The Lonely Crusade 
The Quality of Hurt
The Third Generation 
Hughes, Langston Laughing to Keep from Crying
Not Without Laughter
Something in Common and Other Stories 
The Sweet Flypaper of Life 
The Ways of White Folk 
Hunt, Marsha Free 
Joy 
Hunter, Kristin God Bless the Child 
Guests in the Promised Land
The Landlord 
The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou
The Survivors  
Hurston, Zora Neale  Jonah's Gourd Vine 
Moses, Man of the Mountain 
Seraph on the Suwanee 
Their Eyes Were Watching God 
Joe, Yolanda Bebe's by Golly Wow
He Say, She Say
This Just In
Johnson, Charles Dreamer 
Faith and the Good Thing
Middle Passage
Oxherding Tale
The Sorcerer's Apprentice 
Johnson, James Weldon The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man 
Jones, Gayl  Corrigidora 
  Eva's Man
Mosquito
The Healing 
White Rat 
Kelley, William Melvin  A Different Drummer
A Drop of Patience 
Dancers on the Shore 
dem 
Dunford's Travels Everywhere
Kelley-Hawkins, Emma Four Girls at Cottage City
Killens, John Oliver  And Then We Heard the Thunder 
'Sippi 
The Cotillion
Kincaid, Jamaica A Small Place
Annie John
At the Bottom of the River 
Lucy 
Larsen, Nella  Quicksand
Passing
Lee, Andrea  Sara Phillips 
Little, Benilda  Good Hair 
The Itch
McBride, James Miracle at St. Anna
McLarin, Kim Taming it Down
McKay, Claude  Banana Boat
Banjo
Home to Harlem 
McKinney-Whetstone, Dianne Blues Dancing
Leaving Cecil Street
Tempest Rising
Tumbling
McMillan, Rosalyn Blue Collar Blues
Knowing
One Better
The Flip Side of Sin
McMillan, Terry A Day Late and a Dollar Short
  Disappearing Acts 
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Mama
  The Interruption of Everything
Waiting to Exhale 
McPherson, James Elbow Room 
Major, Clarence  All-Night Visitors 
Calling the Wind 
Emergency Exit 
Fun and Games 
Reflex and Bone Structure 
Such Was the Season 
Marshall, Paule  Brown Girl, Brownstones
Praisesong for the Widow
The Chosen Place, the Timeless People 
The Daughters
The Fisher King
Mayfield, John  The Hit 
The Long Night 
Monroe, Mary  The Upper Room 
Morrison, Toni  Beloved 
Jazz
Paradise
Song of Solomon 
Sula 
Tar Baby 
The Bluest Eye 
Mosely, Walter  always outnumbered, always outgunned
A Little Yellow Dog
A Red Death 
Bad Boy Brawley Brown
Black Betty
  Blonde Faith
Blue Light
  Cinnamon Kiss
Devil in a Blue Dress 
  Diablerie
Fear Itself
  Fear of the Dark
Fearless Jones
  Fortunate Son
Futureland
Gone Fishin' 
  Killing Johnny Fry
RL's Dream
The Man in My Basement
Walkin' the Dog
White Butterfly 
Murray, Albert  Train Whistle Guitar 
Naylor, Gloria  1996
  Bailey's Cafe 
Linden Hills 
Mama Day 
Men of  Brewster Place
Women of Brewster Place 
Petry, Ann The Narrows 
The Street 
Pinkney, Darryl  High Cotton
Polite, Charlene Hatcher  The Flagellants 
Porter, Connie  All-Bright Court 
Imani All Mine
Redding, J. Saunders Stranger and Alone 
Reed. Ishmael  Flight to Canada 
Japanese By Spring 
Last Days of Louisiana Red 
Mumbo Jumbo 
Reckless Eyeballing 
The Free-Lance Pallbearers 
The Terrible Threes 
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down 
Sanders, Dori  Clover 
Schuyler, George Black Empire 
Black No More
Scott, Darieck  Traitor to the Race 
Shaik, Fatima  The Mayor of New Orleans 
Shange, Ntozake  Betsey Brown 
Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo
Simmons, Herbert  Corner Boy 
Man Waking on Eggshells 
Sinclair, April  Ain't Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice 
Coffee Will Make You Black 
i left my backdoor open
Sister Souljah The Coldest Winter
Spencer, Camika When All Hell Breaks Loose
Toomer, Jean Cane 
Thurman, Wallace  Infants of Spring 
Interne 
The Blacker the Berry
Trice, Dawn Turner  Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven 
Tyree, Omar  A Do Right Man
flyy girl 
Single Mom
Sweet St. Louis
Wade, Brent  Company Man 
Walker, Alice  By the Light of My Father's Smile
Meridian 
Possessing the Secret of Joy 
The Color Purple
The Temple of My Familiar
The Third Life of Grange Copeland 
Walker, Margaret  Jubilee 
Walrond, Eric  Tropic Death 
Wesley, Valerie Wilson  Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
Devil's Gonna Get Him
Easier To Kill
No Hiding Place
The Devil Riding
When Death Comes Stealing 
Where Evil Sleeps 
West, Dorothy  The Living is Easy
The Weddin
Wideman, John Edgar  A Glance Away
Damballah 
Hiding Place
Reuben 
Sent for You Yesterday 
The Cattle Killing 
The Lynchers 
Williams, John  !Click Song 
Mothersill and the Foxes
Night Song
One for New York 
Sissie
The Angry Ones 
The Berhama Account 
The Man Who Cried I Am 
Williams, Sherley Ann  Dessa Rose
Wilson, Harriet  Our Nig 
Wright, Richard  Lawd Today 
Native Son 
Savage Holiday 
The Long Dream 
The Outsider 
Uncle Tom's Children
Yerby, Frank  A Darkness at Ingraham's Crest 
A Rose for Anna Maria
A Woman Called Fancy 
Jarrett's Jade 
The Dahomean 
The Foxes of Harrow 
Young, Al  Ask Me Now
Seduction By Light 
Sitting Pretty
Snakes  
Who is Angelina?
Zane Addicted

                       
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