Best African American Authors 2019 - April 2024

An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR  * TIME  * BUSTLE  * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE  * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS  * AMAZON.COM OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTIONWINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2019 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE  WINNER OF THE 2019 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK—FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION“A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.” —Barack Obama “Haunting . . . Beautifully written.” —The ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1616208686
• ASIN: 1616208686
• ISBN: 1616208686
• Brand: Algonquin Books
• Manufacturer: Algonquin Books

Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires

“By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history.”—Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times Bestselling author of Hidden FiguresBetween the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery was reaching maturity, a small group of industrious, tenacious, and daring men and women broke new ground to attain the highest levels of financial success.Mary Ellen Pleasant, used her Gold Rush wealth to further the cause of abolitionis... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062437607
• ASIN: 0062437607
• ISBN: 0062437607
• Manufacturer: Amistad

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times • USA Today • San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Esquire • Newsday • Booklist Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishab... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0399588191
• ASIN: 0399588191
• ISBN: 0399588191
• Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERLYNTON HISTORY PRIZE WINNERHEARTLAND AWARD WINNER DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FINALIST      NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe New York Times  • USA Today • O: The Oprah Magazine • Amazon • Publishers Weekly •  Salon • Newsday  • The D... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679763880
• ASIN: 0679763880
• ISBN: 9780679763888
• Brand: Vintage Books
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Nickel Boys: A Novel

• ASIN: 0385537077
• ASIN: 0385537077
• ISBN: 0385537077
• Manufacturer: Doubleday

That Month in Tuscany

That Month in Tuscany . . .Ren Sawyer and Lizzy Harper live completely different lives. He’s a rock star with a secret he can no longer live with. She’s a regular person whose husband stood her up for a long planned anniversary trip. On a flight across the Atlantic headed for Italy, a drunken pity party and untimely turbulence literally drop Lizzy into Ren’s lap. It is the last thing she can imagine ever happening to someone like her. But despite their surface differences, they discover an undeniable pull between them. A pull that leads them both to remember who they had once been before... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0997341521
• ASIN: 0997341521
• ISBN: 0997341521
• Manufacturer: Fence Free Entertainment, LLC

Sun Does Shine

The New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club 2018 Selection: A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, and justice."An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity.”- Archbishop Desmond TutuIn 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free. But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250309476
• ASIN: 1250309476
• ISBN: 1250309476
• Manufacturer: Griffin

The Pecan Man

The Pecan Man is a work of Southern fiction by Florida native Cassie Dandridge Selleck. This novel, Selleck's first, has been optioned for film rights by BCDF Pictures, published in audio by Blackstone, and selected by the State of Arkansas as their common reader novel for the year 2016. It has been selected by book clubs across America, taught in high school classrooms in the U.S. and London, and translated in two foreign countries.In the summer of 1976, recently widowed and childless Ora Lee Beckworth hires a homeless old black man to mow her lawn. The neighborhood children call him the Pee-... [Read More]

• ASIN: B006T8124K
• ASIN: B006T8124K

Ratchet Wives Club Original: Episode One

*Re-edited in February 2016*Betrayal.Amibiton.Sex.Wives of DC's biggest ballers.Each hiding a dark secret...They're all RATCHET.MICHAELAHas everything a woman could dream of. Certified bad bitch with a sexy husband, adorable daughter, money making law career... And an addiction to coke.MAYAMichaela's little sister. Just quit being a video model, owes her ex thousands and trying to get back on the pole to earn money.Her future looks grim.TIASIBitter about her pending divorce from NBA baller husband Cairo. Nothing like her husband's cousin to take the edge off...PRISCILLAHas a demanding job, an ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01AJCEP0Y
• ASIN: B01AJCEP0Y

The Girl Who Lived: A Thrilling Suspense Novel

Ten years ago, four people were brutally murdered—one girl lived.No one believes her story. The police think she's crazy. Her therapist thinks she's suicidal. Everyone else thinks she's a dangerous drunk. They're all right—but did she see the killer?Best Mystery-Thriller eBook of the Year — Independent Publisher Book Awards 2018Winner Best Thriller — National Indie Excellence Awards 2018Winner Best Thriller — Silver Falchion Award 2018Finalist eBook Fiction — Indie Book Awards 2018Silver Medal Suspense — Reader’s Favorite Book Awards 2018Voted Most Loved Cover — NetGall... [Read More]

• ASIN: B076FNQWTF
• ASIN: B076FNQWTF
• Manufacturer: Greyson Media

Small Great Things: A Novel

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from Jodi Picoult.SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE “[Picoult] offers a thought-provoking examination of racism in America today, both overt and subtle. Her many readers will find much to discuss in the pages of this topical, moving book.”—Booklist (starred review) Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345544978
• ASIN: 0345544978
• ISBN: 0345544978
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

I'm NOT just a Scribble...

A story about kindness and inclusion. Scribble, the book's main character, never thought he was different until he met his first drawing. Then, After being left out because he didn't look like everyone else. Scribble teaches the drawings how to accept each other for who they are. Which enables them to create amazing art. This book not only has illustrations that any child can personally recognize but it also addresses inclusion without boundaries so that anyone can relate to it. Each book comes with 100 stickers so that children can create their very own Scribble. They will be able to learn ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0991248244
• ASIN: 0991248244
• ISBN: 0991248244
• Manufacturer: Diane Alber Art LLC

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

NOMINATED FOR AN NAACP IMAGE AWARD • An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature. “Yes, Well-Read Black Girl is as good as it sounds. . . . [Glory Edim] gathers an all-star cast of contributors—among them Lynn Nottage, Jesmyn Ward, and Gabourey Sidibe.”—O: The Oprah Magazine Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0525619771
• ASIN: 0525619771
• ISBN: 0525619771
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

New York Times Bestseller • Amazon's Best History Book of the Year 201 • TIME Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 • New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 • NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 • Economist Book of the Year • SELF.com’s Best Books of 2018 • Audible’s Best of the Year • BookRiot’s Best Audio Books of 2018 • The Atlantic’s Books Briefing: History, Reconsidered • Atlanta Journal Constitution, Best Southern Books 2018  • The Christian Science Monitor’s Best Books 2018 • Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of the ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062748203
• ASIN: 0062748203
• ISBN: 0062748203
• Manufacturer: Amistad

Thot Next Door

Every town has a neighborhood thot. But what if she moves in next door to you? What if she tries to take your man from you? What if you two share a dangerous secret that no one else knows…

Meet Lyrica the finesser and bartender from Richmond VA, working her way up and down the East Coast looking for a come up. She ran away from her parents at the tender age of 16 never to look back. Now that she has been on her own, she has made a living by stealing and sleeping around. She is heartless and cold and has no love for anyone but herself.

One night she betrays her best friend Yasmina a... [Read More]

• ASIN: B076ZYZR54
• ASIN: B076ZYZR54

Great Speeches by African Americans : Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others

Tracing the struggle for freedom and civil rights across two centuries, this anthology comprises speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Barack Obama, and many other influential

• UPC: 4530858
• Rating: 4.333

Black Theatre Usa Revised And Expanded Edition, Vol. 2 : Plays By African Americans From 1847 To Today

9780684823072

• UPC: 25668982
• Rating: 4.0

Dreams of Africa in Alabama : The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America

Sylviane A. Diouf reconstructs the lives of 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria who were brought ashore in Alabama in 1860 under cover of night, recounting their capture and passage in the

• UPC: 10230721

Is Marriage for White People? : How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone

A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African-American middle class, and offers a paradoxical--nearly

• UPC: 19895090
• Rating: 3.667

Black Faces, White Spaces : Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors

"Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how

• UPC: 30685108

The Best of America's Test Kitchen 2019 : Best Recipes, Equipment Reviews, and Tastings

9781945256530

• UPC: 917626840

Narrative of Sojourner Truth (an African American Heritage Book)

Sojourner Truth transformed herself from a runaway slave into a well-known campaigner for abolition and women's rights. Her dedication to her principles and her fiery speaking style electrified the abolition movement and brought her fame.

• UPC: 53263575
• Rating: 4.0

African American Firsts, 4th Edition : Famous, Little-Known And Unsung Triumphs Of Blacks In America

Offers a look at African Americans who achieved major firsts in such areas as journalism, entertainment, the military, history, and politics, noting the dates of each

• UPC: 24244083
• Rating: 4.167

100 Best African American Poems, The

Award-winning poet and writer Giovanni takes on the difficult task of selecting the 100 best African-American works from classic and contemporary

• UPC: 12337656
• Rating: 4.0

To Make Our World Anew : Volume I: A History of African Americans to 1880

Originally published in a single volume in

• UPC: 29325686