Adult Fiction

The Day Sonny Died by M. Simone Boyd

Beloved by Toni Morrison

*Home by Toni Morrison

*Paradise by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

*The Color Purple by Alice Walker

*Roots by Alex Haley

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

*Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

*The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

*Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

*12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup

*An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

*My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

*The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

*The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

*Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

*Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

*Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

*The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

*Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

*Land of Shadows by Rachel Howzell Hall

*And Now She's Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall

*When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole

*Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

*Black Water Rising by Attica Locke

*Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke

*Blacktop Wasteland by SA Cosby

*Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley