African American Fiction
Monster
Walter Dean Myers’ Monster is a gripping courtroom drama told from the perspective of 16-year-old Steve Harmon, an African American ...
Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water is a lyrical novel about love, vulnerability, and the Black British experience. It follows the ...
Dear Martin
Dear Martin by Nic Stone is a contemporary young adult novel that follows Justyce McAllister, a black high school student ...
Sag Harbor
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead is a semi-autobiographical novel that explores the summer experiences of Benji Cooper, a black teenager ...
Seven Days in June
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams is a captivating romance that follows Eva Mercy, a single mother and bestselling ...
All American Boys
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely is a dual-narrative novel that tells the story of two teenage ...
Luster
Raven Leilani’s Luster is a sharp, darkly humorous novel that follows Edie, a young Black woman navigating her twenties in ...
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give is a powerful novel inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. It follows Starr ...
Queenie
Candice Carty-Williams’ Queenie is a contemporary novel that follows Queenie Jenkins, a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London. Struggling ...