TOP 20 FAVORITE BOOKS BY BLACK AUTHORS IN 2018

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  • Brown Girl Dreaming

    • ASIN: 0147515823
    • ISBN: 9780147515827
    • Brand: Puffin Books
    • Manufacturer: Puffin Books

    Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner, now available in paperback with 7 all-new poems.Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s LiteratureA President Obama "O" Book Club pickRaised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she share... [Read More]

  • Milk and Honey

    • ASIN: B015X5KBJG
    • Brand: Andrews McMeel Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing

    The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

  • Calling My Name

    • ASIN: 0062656864
    • ISBN: 0062656864
    • Manufacturer: Greenwillow Books

    “Calling My Name is a treasure.”—Nic Stone, New York Times–bestselling author of Dear MartinCalling My Name is a striking, luminous, and literary exploration of family, spirituality, and self—ideal for readers of Jacqueline Woodson, Jandy Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Sandra Cisneros.This unforgettable novel tells a universal coming-of-ag... [Read More]

  • I Almost Forgot About You: A Novel

    • ASIN: 1524762318
    • ISBN: 1524762318
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting To Exhale is back with the inspiring story of a woman who shakes things up in her life to find greater meaningNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNALIn I Almost Forgot About You, Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life—great friends... [Read More]

  • Kindred

    • ASIN: B009U9S540
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

  • Careful of the Company You Keep

    • ASIN: 0758217471
    • ISBN: 0758217471
    • Brand: Brand: Kensington Books
    • Manufacturer: Dafina

    After finding her husband cheating, Renee returns to her hometown to start again. But she is looking for love in all the wrong places. Danielle has a great career as a nurse, but her personal life is a mess. She enlists Renee to test the loyalty of her man, but when the seduction goes too far their friendship could be in jeopardy.

  • Pressure Makes Diamonds: Becoming the Woman I Pretended to Be

    • ASIN: 1617754935
    • ISBN: 1617754935
    • Brand: Openlens
    • Manufacturer: OpenLens

    "When you get dealt a tough hand, you might choose to fold or you might decide to hold. If you're Valerie Graves, you reshuffle the whole damn deck...Graves's can't-stop-won't-stop energy offers a jump start toward meeting objectives and renews hope. Pressure Makes Diamonds is about more than overcoming."--Essence Magazine"This is the unflinching m... [Read More]

  • I Am Enough

    • ASIN: 0062667122
    • ISBN: 0062667122
    • Brand: HarperCollins
    • Manufacturer: Balzer + Bray

    A New York Times bestseller and Goodreads Choice Awards picture book winner!This is a gorgeous, lyrical ode to loving who you are, respecting others, and being kind to one another—from Empire actor and activist Grace Byers and talented newcomer artist Keturah A. Bobo. This is the perfect gift for mothers and daughters, baby showers, and graduatio... [Read More]

  • Invisible

    • ASIN: 1455585025
    • ISBN: 1455585025
    • Manufacturer: Vision

    Read the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller Invisible, then continue the series with Unsolved. Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurrin... [Read More]

  • Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

    • ASIN: 1250121973
    • ISBN: 1250121973
    • Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.

    The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York of the 1930s―and without the strategy she devised, Lu... [Read More]

  • The Underground Railroad: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0345804325
    • ISBN: 0345804325
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

    #1 New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book AwardWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeOne of the Best books of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, HuffPost, Esquire, Minneapolis Star TribuneCor... [Read More]

  • Maya Angelou: Poems

    • ASIN: 0553255762
    • ISBN: 0553255762
    • Brand: Angelou, Maya
    • Manufacturer: Bantam

    Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness,  sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and  celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In  this moving volume of poetry, we hear the  multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and  vibrant writers of our time.

  • The Pawn

    • ASIN: B01MCV02X1

    "Wickedly brilliant, dark and addictive!" - Jodi Ellen Malpas, #1 New York Times bestselling authorThe price of survival...Gabriel Miller swept into my life like a storm. He tore down my father with cold retribution, leaving him penniless in a hospital bed. I quit my private all-girl's college to take care of the only family I hav... [Read More]

  • The Black Box (A Harry Bosch Novel Book 16)

    • ASIN: B0076DELIG
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

  • Little Fires Everywhere

    • ASIN: 0735224293
    • ISBN: 9780735224292
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Press

  • The Invention of Wings

    • ASIN: 0143121707
    • ISBN: 0143121707
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a #1 New York Times bestselling novel about two unforgettable American women.Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world.Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urb... [Read More]

  • Black Girl Dreaming: Poems About Love, Life and Loss

    • ASIN: 1541015916
    • ISBN: 1541015916
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    As a child growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, author and blogger Chandra Sparks Splond spent many days in her room dreaming of forever and writing about someday. In Black Girl Dreaming: Poems about Love, Life and Loss, Splond shares some of her most cherished and personal work on her journey to learning to love herself and others.

  • What Happened to Us?: An emotional, heartwarming story of love and friendship

    • ASIN: B07GBG27XH
    • Manufacturer: Aria

    'A heartwarming, emotional read ... Perfect to curl up with on a winter's day' Liz Fenwick. Sometimes the end is only the beginning... After ten years together, Carrie Nolan is devastated when she's dumped by Kevin Mulvey without even a backwards glance! But on reflection, she has sacrificed her own long-term happiness by pandering to his excessive... [Read More]

  • The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

    • ASIN: B000JMKRKC
    • Manufacturer: Atria Books

  • Gray Mountain: A Novel

    • ASIN: B00JYWUHO4
    • ISBN: 0385539169
    • Manufacturer: Dell

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more.   The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer’s career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track—until the recession hits and she is downsized, furloughed, a... [Read More]

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