Genre: African American (14 books)
The best classic books from the African American genre.
Beloved
Toni Morrison
124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children.
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination—indeed, everything and anything except me."
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
You better not never tell nobody but God. It'd kill your mammy.
Native Son
Richard Wright
Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o'clock.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father.
Sula
Toni Morrison
In that place, where they tore the nightshade and blackberry patches from the roots to make room for the Medallion City Golf Course, there was once a neighborhood.
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