Fiction Books
One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.
Ishmael Reed, Dramatist
47 by Walter Mosley - 2005
- Beloved - Toni Morrison - 1987
"Toni Morrison's "Beloved" was named the best work of American fiction in the last 25 years by the New York Times Book Review. The honor was granted to Morrison based on responses from more than 120 outstanding writers, critics, editors, and other literary greats. It received 15 votes." Jet magazine, 2006
Black Empire - by George Samuel Schuyler & John A. Williams - 1991
- Black People: For Entertainment Purposes Only - by W. Ivan Wright - 2007
Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, & Their Fans - by Jeffrey A. Brown - 2001
Brothers & Sister - Bebe Moore Campbell - 1994
- Boldfaced Lies - by Charlene Porter - 2006
Received the The 38th NAACP Image Awards nomination for "Outstanding Literary Work By A Debut Author
Faces at the Bottom of The Well - by Derrick Bell - 1992 "Racism is an integral, permanent, and indestructible component of this society", says the Author. An allegorical mixture of fact and fiction, controversial civil rights activist Derrick Bell, argues that racism is so ingrained in American life that no matter what blacks do to better their lot, they are doomed to fail as long as the majority of whites do not see their own well-being threatened by the statuse quo. Bell calls on blacks to face up to this unhappy truth and abandon the misleading vision of "we shall overcome." Only then will blacks, and those whites who join them, be in a position to create viable strategies to alleviate the burden of racism. Critics have called this book "disturbing", "chilling", "shocking", to "entertaining" and untimately "inspiring". We say read, learn, and maybe grow. - BlackMenRead.com
Flesh & The Devil - by Kola Boof - 2004
Future X - by Kent Smith - 1990
The Freelance Pallbearers by Ishmael Reed - 1967
The Healers - by Ayi Kwei Armah - 1978
Things Fall Apart - by Chinua Achebe - 1958
- Two Thousand Seasons - by Ayi Kwei Armah - 1973 Two Thousand Seasons is set in the harshest century of the Atlantic Slaving War that for three hundred years devastated Africa while lifting Europe to affluent world dominance. This novel tells the story of a terror soaked age from the viewpoint of Africa's slaughtered millions.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison - 1947
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed - 1972
Parable of the Sower - by Octavia Butler - 1993
Parable of the Talents - by Octavia Butler - 1998
The Reed Reader - by Ishmael Reed - 2001
Shades of Memnon (Book 1) by Brother G - 1999
The Spook Who Sat By The Door by Sam Greenlee - 1969
- Them - by Nathan McCall - 2007
