Zinzi ClemmonsFrom an author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman coming of age—a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, family, and countryRaised in Pennsylvania,...

John Lawton BLACK OUT is an outstanding debut thriller from a major new talent, featuring an original new detective, Sgt Frederick Troy, the son of a distinguished Russian emigre. Children...

Mildred D Taylor For the Logan family, it is a frightening and turbulent time. First, their friend, T.J., must go on trial for murder—and confront an all-white jury. Then Cousin...

Toni MorrisonNobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison’s spellbinding new novel is a Faulknerian symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of black women...

This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that...

Toni Morrison A New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kansas City StarAt the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning...

Nelson MandelaLong Walk to Freedom(Long Walk to Freedom #1-2)Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the...

Toni MorrisonThe Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio,...

Bernice RubensJack has been unfaithful, and Ruth also tries adultery, but doesn't like it - all she wants to do is repair their marriage. Then, on a free trip to...

Andre Brink   The novel has become a landmark in South African literature about the seventies period of unrest and death in detention. The main character is an ordinary man...

Alexandra FullerCocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness tells the story of the author's mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East...

Chinua Achebe   More than two million copies of Things Fall Apart have been sold in the United States since it was first published here in 1959. Worldwide, there are...