Black Historical Fiction

One Night in Georgia

Celeste O. Norfleet

To Catch a Raven

Beverly Jenkins, Kim Staunton

On the Rooftop

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Flipping Boxcars

Cedric The Entertainer

Banana Bottom

Claude McKay

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin

So Far Back

Pam Durban

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

The Water Dancer

Joe Morton, Ta-Nehisi Coates

Home to Harlem

Claude McKay

Harlem Sunset

Nekesa Afia

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

James McBride

These Heathens

Mia McKenzie, Bahni Turpin

James (pulitzer Prize Winner)

Percival Everett

Blake; Or, the Huts of America

Martin R. Delany, Jerome McGann

Dead and Buried

Barbara Hambly, Ron Butler

Crimson Angel

Barbara Hambly

Joplin's Ghost

Tananarive Due

Miss Lizzie's War

Rosemary Agonito

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

Sam Greenlee, Natiki Hope Pressley

Ourika

Claire de Duras

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

Ring Shout

P. Djèlí Clark

Beloved

Toni Morrison

The Filling Station

Vanessa Miller

An Extraordinary Union

Alyssa Cole

Talma Gordon

Pauline E. Hopkins, Pauline E. Hpokins

Wild Seed

Octavia E. Butler

Clotel

William Wells Brown

The Conjure Woman

Charles W. Chesnutt

Stories of the Color Line

Charles W. Chesnutt

The Heroic Slave

Frederick Douglass

Passing

Nella Larsen

Quicksand

Nella Larsen

One-shot Harry

Gary Phillips

Porgy

DuBose Heyward

Murder in July

Barbara Hambly

Cold Bayou

Barbara Hambly