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Black Authors

Dive into a curated collection of works by renowned Black authors. From timeless classics to contemporary masterpieces, discover voices that have shaped literature and championed diversity through the ages.
  • Tastes Like Chicken - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    Tastes Like Chicken

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    They're back by popular demand! In Tastes Like Chicken, Lolita Files continues the story of Misty Fine and Reesy Snowden, the dynamic heroines of h...

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  • Baby of the Family - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    Baby of the Family

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    An evocative, delicately comic story of a girl's coming of age. From the moment of her birth in a rural black hospital in Georgia, Lena McPherson i...

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  • Return of Simple - Paperback | Diverse Reads
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    Return of Simple

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    Jesse B. Simple, Simple to his fans, made weekly appearances beginning in 1943 in Langston Hughes' column in the Chicago Defender. Simple may have ...

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  • Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life

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    The only collaboration between the two brightest lights of the Harlem Renaissance--Zora Neale Hurston and Langston HughesIn 1930, two giants of Afr...

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  • Slumberland: A Novel - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    Slumberland: A Novel

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    The hip break-out novel from 2016 Man Booker Prize winning author, Paul Beatty, about a disaffected Los Angeles DJ who travels to post-Wall Berli...

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  • What Looks like Crazy on an Ordinary Day - Paperback(Reprint) | Diverse Reads

    What Looks like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

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    After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living with the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and biggest dreams, Ava Johnson h...

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  • Loving Day: A Novel - Paperback(Reprint) | Diverse Reads
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    Loving Day: A Novel

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    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “[Mat Johnson’s] unrelenting examination of blackness, whiteness and everything in between is handled with ruthle...

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  • Shetani's Sister - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    Shetani's Sister

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    From the multi-million copy master of vernacular black literature and pioneeer of hip hop culture, a masterpiece of crime fiction set in Los Ange...

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