5 African Novels You Should Read
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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]
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
- ASIN: 0061120065
- ISBN: 0061120065
- Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
- Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Wa... [Read More]
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The Secret Life of Bees
- ASIN: 0142001740
- ISBN: 0142001740
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
- ASIN: 0374531269
- ISBN: 9780374531263
- Brand: Sarah Crichton Books
- Manufacturer: Sarah Crichton Books
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one beco... [Read More]
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Things Fall Apart
- ASIN: 0385474547
- ISBN: 0385474547
- Brand: Anchor
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel
- ASIN: 1501126075
- ISBN: 1501126075
- Manufacturer: Scribner
WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through r... [Read More]
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Kindred
- UPC: 046442083690
- ASIN: 0807083690
- ISBN: 0807083690
- Brand: Butler, Octavia E.
- Manufacturer: Beacon Press
The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California... [Read More]
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Invisible Man
- ASIN: 0679732764
- ISBN: 9780679732761
- Brand: Ellison, Ralph
- Manufacturer: Vintage Books
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harperperennial Modern Classics)
- ASIN: B00K0OI42W
- Manufacturer: Harper
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The Help
- ASIN: 0425232204
- ISBN: 0425232204
- Brand: Kathryn Stockett
- Manufacturer: Berkley
The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, ... [Read More]
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Becoming
- ASIN: 0525633758
- ISBN: 0525633758
- Brand: WaterBrook Press
- Manufacturer: Random House Large Print
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United Stat... [Read More]
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A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
- ASIN: 0547577311
- ISBN: 0547577311
- Brand: Clarion Books
- Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers
The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys"... [Read More]
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A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)
- ASIN: 0375702709
- ISBN: 9780375702709
- Brand: Vintage Books USA
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy)
- ASIN: 1416905863
- ISBN: 1416905863
- Brand: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Manufacturer: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy fo... [Read More]
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The Color Purple
- ASIN: 0156028352
- ISBN: 9780156028356
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickWinner of the Pulitzer Prize * Winner of the National Book Award Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters—one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South—who sustain their ... [Read More]
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- UPC: 800759280612
- ASIN: 0486280616
- ISBN: 9780486280615
- Brand: Dover Publications
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Referring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was "the most stupendous event of my whole life"; Ernest Hemingway declared that "all modern American literature stems from this one book," while T. S. Eliot called Huck "one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction, not unworthy t... [Read More]
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Monster
- ASIN: 0064407314
- ISBN: 9780064407311
- Brand: Amistad Press
- Manufacturer: Amistad
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER.FADE IN: INTERIOR COURT. A guard sits at a desk behind Steve. Kathy O'Brien, Steve's lawyer, is all busines... [Read More]
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Careful of the Company You Keep
- ASIN: 075821748X
- ISBN: 075821748X
- Brand: Brand: Kensington Books
- Manufacturer: Dafina
From the acclaimed author of Trouble Loves Company comes a smart, sexy, heartfelt new novel about friendship, love, lust--and a whole lot of trouble in between. After finding her husband in a compromising position, romance author Renee Moore goes back to her hometown, hoping to start over. But once again, she finds herself looking for love in all ... [Read More]
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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]
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Just Mercy (Movie Tie-In Edition): A Story of Justice and Redemption
- ASIN: B00JYWVYLY
- Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time, as seen in the HBO documentary True Justice “[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice and equality has i... [Read More]
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