Black Historical Fiction
Reader pathways and category hints that cluster around this lane.
Barracoon
If Beale Street Could Talk
James (pulitzer Prize Winner)
The Coldest Winter Ever
Kindred
Homegoing
Beloved
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The Deep
The Sound and the Fury
The Water Dancer
Twelve Years a Slave
Ring Shout
Passing
An Extraordinary Union
The Seamstress of New Orleans
What You Leave Behind
Master Slave Husband Wife
Wild Rain
Tempest
Destiny's Surrender
To Catch a Raven
The Last Slave Ship
All That She Carried
Black Girl Lost
Quicksand
The Filling Station
Ava's Man
These Heathens
A Sitting in St. James
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
African Town
The Last Madam
On Sundays She Picked Flowers
Home to Harlem
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
The Sewing Girl's Tale
The Tempest Tales
Harlem Sunset
One Night in Georgia
Quicksand and Passing
Tell My Horse
Clotel
Dead and Buried
Shirt on His Back
Black Gangster
Crimson Angel
Murder in July
Cold Bayou
Blessings and Disasters
Funnyhouse of a Negro
The Heroic Slave
Blueschild Baby
The Conjure Woman
Blake; Or, the Huts of America
Banana Bottom
The Senator and the Socialite
Talma Gordon
Steal Away Home