Classic , groundbreaking , best selling, or highly acclaimed books by African-American Authors : 1928 - 2008

1928 – Home to Harlem by Claude McKay

1929 – The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman

1930 – Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes

1938 – Uncle Tom’s Children by Richard Wright

1940 – The Big Sea by Langston Hughes

1940 – Native Son by Richard Wright

1945 – If He Hollers, Let Him Go by Chester Himes

1945 – Black Boy by Richard Wright

1952 – Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

1953 – Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin

1960 – The Bean Eaters by Gwendolyn Brooks

1961 – Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin

1963 – The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks

1963 – The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

1964 – Blues for Mister Charlie by James Baldwin

1965 – The Autobiography of Malcom X by Malcolm X (with Alex Haley)

1968 – Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

1968 – Bloodline by Ernest J. Gaines

1968 – Black Feeling, Black Talk by Nikki Giovanni

1970 – The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

1970 – Some of the Days of Everett Anderson by Lucille Clifton (children’s book)

1970 – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

1971 – The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines

1972 – Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

1972 – Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara

1975 – Fast Sam, Cool Clyde and Stuff by Walter Dean Myers

1976 – Roots by Alex Haley

1980 – The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara

1982 – The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

1983 – A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines

1983 – The Color Purple by Alice Walker

1987 – Beloved by Toni Morrison

1988 – Sacred Cows and Other Edibles by Nikki Giovanni

1988 – Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

1994 – Racism 101 by Nikki Giovanni

1998 – Paradise by Toni Morrison

1999 – Clifford’s Blues by John A. Williams

1999 – The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Soulja

1999 – Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara

2001 – For the Love of Money by Omar Tyree

2003 – Naughty or Nice by Eric Jerome Dickey

2004 – The Known World by Edward P. Jones

2004 – Dark Thirst by Omar Tyree

2005 – Autobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers

2007 – Papa Was a Rolling Stone: A Daughter’s Journey to Forgiveness by Robin Wright King

2007 – Sleeping With the Enemy by Eric Jerome Dickey

2007 – Acolytes by Nikki Giovanni

2008 – Midnight: A Gangster Love Story by Sister Soulja

2008 – Pleasure by Eric Jerome Dickey

 

cpa 10/24/08