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Here are some famous and well known Black authors!
Toni Morrison
Author of Beloved, Sula, Jazz, The Bluest Eyes, Song of Solomon, and many more
Maya Angelou
Author of Phenomenal Women, And I Still Rise, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie, On the Pulse of Morning, and many more
Michelle Alexander
Author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
bell hooks
Author of all about love, and many more
Ida B. Wells
Author of Crusade for Justice, Sothern Horrors, and many more
Some Books in the Library
The Hate U Give Collector's Edition
by
Angie Thomas
Call Number: J 813 T454h (We Read 360)
ISBN: 9780062872340
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
The New Jim Crow
by
Michelle Alexander
Call Number: 323.1196 A377N
ISBN: 9781595581037
Publication Date: 2010-01-05
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by
Zora Neale Hurston; Sherley Anne Williams (Foreword by)
Call Number: 813.52 H966T2
ISBN: 9780252006869
Publication Date: 1978-03-01
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by
Maya Angelou
Call Number: 818.54 A584I
ISBN: 9780394429861
Publication Date: 1970-01-12
The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club)
by
Colson Whitehead
Call Number: 813.54 W592u
ISBN: 9780385542364
Publication Date: 2016-08-02
Invisible Man
by
Ralph Ellison
Call Number: 813.54 E47I
ISBN: 9780679723134
Publication Date: 1989-04-23
Fledgling
by
Octavia E. Butler
Call Number: 813.54 B986f
ISBN: 9780446696166
Publication Date: 2007-01-02
The Story of Ruby Bridges
by
Robert Coles; George Ford (Illustrator)
Call Number: J 920 B851ZC
ISBN: 0590439677
Publication Date: 1995-02-01
Where We Stand
by
Bell Hooks
ISBN: 0203906349
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Such a Fun Age
by
Kiley Reid
Call Number: 813.6 R356s
ISBN: 052554190X
Publication Date: 2019-12-31
The Vanishing Half
by
Brit Bennett
Call Number: 813.6 B471v
ISBN: 9780525536291
Publication Date: 2020-06-02
The Warmth of Other Suns
by
Isabel Wilkerson
ISBN: 9780679444329
Publication Date: 2010-09-07
Recommended (but not in the library)
Queen of the Scene Book and CD
by
Queen Queen Latifah; Frank Morrison (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0060778563
Publication Date: 2006-09-26
Red at the Bone
by
Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN: 9780525535270
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
Queenie
by
Candice Carty-Williams
ISBN: 1409180077
Publication Date: 2018-03-19
War Girls
by
Tochi Onyebuchi
ISBN: 9780451481672
Publication Date: 2019-10-15
The Other Black Girl
by
Zakiya Dalila Harris
ISBN: 9781982160135
Publication Date: 2021-06-01
Ordinary Light
by
Tracy K. Smith
ISBN: 9780307962669
Publication Date: 2015-03-31
All Boys Aren't Blue
by
George Matthew Johnson
ISBN: 9780241515044
Publication Date: 2020-28-4
Libertie
by
Kaitlyn Greenidge
ISBN: 9781616207014
Publication Date: 2021-03-30
Heavy
by
Kiese Laymon
ISBN: 9781501125652
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
Salvage the Bones
by
Jesmyn Ward
ISBN: 9781608195220
Publication Date: 2011-10-03
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