Listmania!
Afrofuturism
By an Amazon.com customer
Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in SpaceAstrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space by De Witt Douglas Kilgore
Buy new: $60.10 / Used from: $140.46
Explores the dirty history of American science-fiction and science from the Cold War Era neo-liberal sci-fi'ers don't want to admit to.
Spook Who Sat by the Door (African American Life Series)Spook Who Sat by the Door (African American Life Series) by Sam Greenlee
Buy new: $17.40 / Used from: $13.47
Thriller/spy parody about a black man who makes it into the FBI through a government sponsored program designed for black men to fail. Secretly learning paramilitary tactics while working as a secretary, he quits and forms an insurgent task force while masquerading as a social worker. The movie is great, too.
Kindred (Bluestreak  Black Women Writers)Kindred (Bluestreak Black Women Writers) by Octavia E. Butler
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $3.06
Dana is transported back in time to the slave era to a Southern plantation where her master is destined to father one of her ancestors. One of my favorite books.
Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The True Story of the World's First Documented Alien AbductionCaptured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The True Story of the World's First Documented Alien Abduction by Stanton T. Friedman
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $8.69
Story of an interracial couple and the first fully documented alien abduction in America.
Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor (America and the Long 19th Century)Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor (America and the Long 19th Century) by Elizabeth Young
Buy new: $23.00 / Used from: $18.50
The title says it all.
The African Origins of UFOs (Salt Modern Fiction)The African Origins of UFOs (Salt Modern Fiction) by Anthony Joseph
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $15.87
Speculative prose poetry.
The BetweenThe Between by Tananarive Due
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.99
TD's first novel.
FrankenhoodFrankenhood
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $0.65
Light-hearted comedy. You will laugh out loud.
The Brother From Another PlanetThe Brother From Another Planet
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.89
Hilarious. Watched this for a contemporary African-American Lit class.
Black No MoreBlack No More by George S. Schuyler
Buy used from: $10.92
Another laugh out loud fav. A scientist develops a process which turns blacks white. Chaos (and hilarity) ensues.
Black Empire (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)Black Empire (Northeastern Library of Black Literature) by George Samuel Schuyler
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $8.28
Originally serialized in a newspaper. Wealthy mad scientist secretly takes over the world.
BelovedBeloved by Toni Morrison
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.41
Best ghost story ever.