Masterpieces of African-American literature
(Book)

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes / Maya Angelou -- Another Country / James Baldwin -- Appalachee Road / Raymond Andrews -- The Autobiographical Writings of William Wells Brown / William Wells Brown -- The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man / James Weldon Johnson -- The Autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X -- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / Ernest J. Gaines -- The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois / W. E. B. Du Bois -- Babel-17 / Samuel R. Delany -- Banana Bottom / Claude McKay -- Beetlecreek / William Demby -- Beloved / Toni Morrison -- Betsey Brown / Ntozake Shange -- Black Boy / Richard Wright -- Black Thunder / Arna Bontemps -- The Blacker the Berry / Wallace Thurman -- "Blue Meridian" / Jean Toomer -- Blues for Mister Charlie / James Baldwin -- The Bluest Eye / Toni Morrison -- Bright Shadow / Joyce Carol Thomas -- Brothers and Keepers / John Edgar Wideman -- Brown Girl, Brownstones / Paule Marshall -- Cane / Jean Toomer -- Captain Blackman / John A. Williams -- The Chaneysville Incident / David Bradley -- Clotel / William Wells Brown -- The Color Purple / Alice Walker -- The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States Politically Considered / Martin Robison Delany -- The Conjure Woman / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- Contending Forces / Pauline Hopkins -- The Content of Our Character / Shelby Steele -- Corregidora / Gayl Jones -- The Dahomean / Frank G. Yerby -- Dessa Rose / Sherley Anne Williams -- Devil in a Blue Dress / Walter Mosley -- A Different Drummer / William Melvin Kelley -- Dust Tracks on a Road / Zora Neale Hurston -- Dutchman / Amiri Baraka -- Eva's Man / Gayl Jones -- Faith and the Good Thing / Charles Johnson -- Fences / August Wilson -- The Fire Next Time / James Baldwin -- Flight to Canada / Ishmael Reed -- for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf / Ntozake Shange -- Funnyhouse of a Negro / Adrienne Kennedy -- Gemini / Nikki Giovanni -- Go Tell It on the Mountain / James Baldwin -- God Bless the Child / Kristin Hunter -- A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich / Alice Childress -- Home to Harlem / Claude McKay --The Homewood Trilogy / John Edgar Wideman -- The House Behind the Cedars / Charles Waddell -- Hurry Home / John Edgar Wideman -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Maya Angelou -- If He Hollers Let Him Go / Chester Hines -- In the Wine Time / Ed Bullins -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Harriet Jacobs -- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African / Olaudah Equiano -- Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison -- Iola Leroy / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Joe Turner's Come and Gone / August Wilson -- Jonah's Gourd Vine / Zora Neale Hurston -- Kindred / Octavia E. Butler -- Lawd Today / Richard Wright -- Let the Circle Be Unbroken / Mildred D. Taylpr -- Linden Hills / Gloria Naylor -- The Long Dream / Richard Wright -- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom / August Wilson -- Mama / Terry McMillan -- The Man Who Cried I Am / John A. Williams -- Manchild in the Promised Land / Claude Brown -- Marked by Fire / Joyce Carol Thomas -- Maud Martha / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The Great M. C. Higgins / Virginia Hamilton -- A Measure of Time / Rosa Guy -- Meridian / Alice Walker -- Middle Passage / Charles Johnson -- Moses, Man of the Mountain / Zora Neale Hurston -- Mumbo Jumbo / Ishmael Reed -- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass -- The Narrows / Ann Petry -- Native Son / Richard Wright -- Notes of a Native Son / James Baldwin -- Our Nig / Harriet E. Wilson -- The Outsider / Richard Wright -- Oxherding Tale / Charles Johnson -- Painted Turtle / Clarence Major -- Passing / Nella Larsen -- A Photograph / Ntozake Shange -- The Piano Lesson / August Wilson -- Plum Bun / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- The Poetry of Ai / Ai -- The Poetry of Amiri Baraki / Amiri Baraki -- The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The Poetry of Sterling Brown / Sterling Brown -- The Poetry of Lucille Clifton / Lucille Clifton -- The Poetry of Countée Cullen / Countée Cullen -- The Poetry of Owen Dodson / Owen Dodson -- The Poetry of Rita Dove / Rita Dove -- The Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The Poetry of Nikki Giovanni / Nikki Giovanni -- The Poetry of Michael S. Harper / Michael S. Harper -- The Poetry of Robert Hayden / Robert Hayden -- The Poetry of George Moses Horton / George Moses Horton -- The Poetry of Langston Hughes / Langston Hughes -- The Poetry of June Jordan / June Jordan -- The Poetry of Etheridge Knight / Etheridge Knight -- The Poetry of Audre Lorde / Audre Lorde -- The Poetry of Claude McKay / Claude Mckay -- The Poetry of Haki Madhubuti / Haki Madhubti -- The Poetry of Carolyn M. Rodgers / Carolyn M. Rodgers -- The Poetry of Sonia Sanchez / Sonia Sanchez -- The Poetry of Melvin B. Tolson / Melvin B. Tolson -- The Poetry of Alice Walker / Alice Walker -- The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley / Phillis Wheatley -- The Poetry of Jay Wright / Jay Wright -- Praisesong for the Widow / Paule Marshall -- Quicksand / Nella Larsen -- A Raisin in the Sun / Lorraine Hansberry -- A Rat's Mass / Adrienne Kennedy -- Reckless Eyeballing / Ishmael Reed -- Reflex and Bone Structure / Clarence Major -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry / Mildred D. Taylor -- Roots / Alex Haley -- Runner Mack / Berry Beckham -- The Salt Eaters / Toni Cade Bambara -- The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window / Lorraine Hansberry -- Slavery and Social Death / Orlando Patterson -- A Soldier's Play / Charles Fuller -- Song of Solomon / Toni Morrison -- Soul on Ice / Eldridge Cleaver -- The Souls of Black Folk / W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. / Martin Luther King Jr. -- The Sports of the Gods / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand / Samuel R. Delany -- The Stories of Henry Dumas / Henry Dumas -- The Stories of Langston Hughes / Langston Hughes -- The Stories of James Alan McPherson / James Alan McPherson -- The Street / Ann Petry -- Sula / Toni Morrison -- Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush / Virginia Hamilton -- The System of Dante's Hell / Amiri Baraka -- The Taking of Miss Janie / Ed Bullins -- Tar Baby / Toni Morrison -- Their Eyes Were Watching God / Zora Neale Hurston -- The Third Life of Grange Copeland / Alice Walker -- Trouble of Mind / Alice Childress -- The Women of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor -- Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down / Ishmael Reed --