HUMOR

• Japanese Spring - Ishmael Reed
• A Man of the People - Chinua Achebe - political satire of the corrupt chief
• The African Witch - Joyce Cary
• The Best of Simple - Langston Hughes
• My Mercedes is Bigger than Yours - Nkem Nwankwo
• On the Real Side - Mel Watkins - A History of African American Humor

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Mystery = NEW

• A Little Yellow Dog - Walter Mosely - Easy Rawlins5
• Blanche on the lam - Barbara Neeley - a cleaning woman/sleuth named Blanche White
• Blanche among the talented tenth - Barbara Neely - Blanche White2
• Devil in a Blue Dress - Walter Mosely - First in the excellent Easy Rawlins series
• Red Death - Walter Mosely - Easy Rawlins2
• White Butterfly - Walter Mosely - Easy Rawlins3
• Black Betty - Walter Mosely - Easy Rawlins4
• Violent Spring - Gary Phillips
• Simisola - Ruth Rendell
• When Death Comes Stealing - Valerie Wilson Wesley

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Science Fiction

• they fly çiron - Samuel Delany
• Wild Seed - Octavia Butler
• Dawn - Octavia Butler
• Adulthood Rites - Octavia Butler
• Imago - Octavia Butler
• The Fall of the Towers Trilogy - Samuel Delany - he wrote this in high school.
• The Einstein Intersection - Samuel Delany
• Dahlgren - Samuel Delany
• Nova (short stories) - Samuel R. Delany
• Triton - Samuel R. Delany
• The Jewels of Aptor - Samuel L. Delaney
• Tales of Nev&egraveryon (short stories) - Samuel R. Delany

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Historical Fiction = NEW

• Just Above My Head - James Baldwin - from Harlem to Paris in 30 years
• And We Are Not saved - Derrick Bell
• Faces at the Bottom of the Well - Derrick Bell - philosophy of Civil Rights Law through first rate fiction
• Tree of Life - Maryse Condé a historical fiction novel about Guadeloupe
• The Sweeter the Juice - Shirlee Taylor Haizlip - multiracial family's passages over five generations of color consciousness
• Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
• Jubilee - Margaret Walker - surrounding the Civil War

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Miscellaneous fiction = NEW

• How Stella Got Her Groove Back - Terry McMillan
• Tell me how long the train's been gone - James Baldwin
• The Conjure Woman and Other Tales - Charles Chesnut
• The Strength of Gideon and other stories - Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Spunk: The selected short stories of ZORA NEAL HURSTON
• Breaking Ice: An anthology of contemporary African-American fiction - Terry McMillan, ed.
• Disappearing Acts - Terry McMillan - better than Waiting to Exhale
• Waiting to Exhale - Terry McMillan - better than the movie on African American women's problems with males
• Tar Baby - Toni Morrison - relationships between Black women and men, White women and men, and us and them
• RL's Dream - Walter Mosely - first rate and even better if you like the blues
• Cane - Jean Toomer - this literary gem of the Harlem Renaissance earned more fame in Europe than America
• Black American Lierature Fiction - Darwin Turner, ed. - Charles Chesnut, Paul Dunbar, Jean Toomer, Wallace Thurman, Zora Hurston, Richard Wright, Frank Yerby, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, William Kelley, Debut, Kristin Hunter
• The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
• Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker - the horror of misogyny is not fiction for many African women
• You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down - Alice Walker - short stories
• Black-eyed Susans/Midnight Birds - Mary Helen Washington, ed. -stories by and about Black Women - Jean Wheeler Smith, Paulette Childress White, Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gwendolyn Brooks, Gayl Jones, Louise Meriwether, Alexis DeVeau, Frenchy Hodges, Sherley Anne Williams, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, Toni Cade Bambara

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