African-American lit

I haven't yet finished all of these books, but...

(with help from blackbookshelf)

Maya Angelou (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)

James Baldwin (Go Tell It on the Mountain)

Gwendolyn Brooks (poems)

Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man)

John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me)

Alex Haley (Roots)

Langston Hughes (poems)

Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God)

Gayl Jones (The Healing)

Charles Johnson (Dreamer)

Toni Morrison (Paradise)

Walter Mosley (Blue Light 'cuz I love sci-fi)

Gloria Naylor (Mama Day)

Anne Petry (The Street)

Jean Toomer (Cane)

Alice Walker (I can't decide whether to re-read The Color Purple or branch out)

Phillis Wheatley (collected)

John Edgar Wideman (Philadelphia Fire)

Richard Wright (Native Son)

Jeepers, there are a lot of great books to read. I will mark them as I read them...

January 1, 1999 in Site features | Permalink