 | Them: A Novel by Nathan McCall
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.17 Race, class, and gentrification collide in an Atlanta neighborhood. Redevelopment of a community brings about change many are not ready for.
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 | A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore: The Oral Literature, Traditions, Recollections, Legends, Tales, Songs, Religious Beliefs, Customs, Sayings and Humor of Peoples of African American Descent in the Americas
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $2.74 This was a joy to read. Stories, poems, folklore, songs pertaining to the Afro- American culture. A must have for lovers of black culture.
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 | Tumbling by Diane Mckinney-whetstone
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Classic by one of the greatest writers of the 20th and 21st century. She brings Philadelphia alive in the 40s and 50s.
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 | Orange Mint and Honey: A Novel by Carleen Brice
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $3.50 An APOOO favorite, Brice captures the dynamics of a mother/daughter relationship with realness and conscious.
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 | Conception: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $0.75 Told from the point of view of an unborn, this novel speaks to youth, poverty, inner city life and dreams deferred.
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 | After: A Novel by Marita Golden
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $6.29 What happens when a black cop kills a young black man? Two families in pain, looking for answers to why?
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 | Seen It All and Done the Rest: A Novel by Pearl Cleage
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $7.80 Zora is back and so is her sassy, jazzy grandmother from Europe. Taking on the Atlanta establishment with a Wizard of Oz twist.
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 | Scottsboro: A Novel by Ellen Feldman
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $6.20 The author takes artistic license as she examines the women of the infamous Scottsboro case. Class, color, status intersect in this tragedy.
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 | Standing at the Scratch Line: A Novel (Strivers Row) by Guy Johnson
Buy new: $11.48 / Used from: $7.92 Classic. Empires are built and lines are drawn in this wel-told story of love, corruption, and power in early century Louisiana. King is the man!
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 | From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island by Lorna Goodison
Buy used from: $17.40 Goodison's family story in Jamaican is beautifully written. A rich history of time, place and people.
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 | Sweetsmoke by David Fuller
Buy new: $19.96 / Used from: $0.07 I was prepared not to like this book on slavery but the well-devised imaginative story of the day-to-day survival on the plantation cannot be ignore.
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 | The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.46 The movie adaptation finally caused me to read the book. Though I have mixed feelings about the formidable black women and the white girl they rescued in 1964, this was a significant contribution to southern literature.
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 | The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $1.50 I learned a lot about Liberia; it's history and its people. The author tells of the war that drove her family to the U.S. and her coming to grips of her beloved country.
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 | Stand the Storm by Breena Clarke
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $3.99 Yet another slave narrative I read in 2008 that adds to the landscape of southern and slave stories. This time freed slaves living in Washington D.C.
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 | Ms. Etta's Fast House by Victor McGlothin
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.10 Wonderfully imagined tale of black life in St. Lousi, Missouri in 1940s and 50s. The high life, the professional life of blacks is well told as they intersect at Miss Etta's.
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 | The Manley Memoirs by Beverley Manley
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $41.20 Beverly Manley is the former wife of Michael Manley, the illustrious prime minister of Jamaica. The history of Jamaica's independence and the making of a marriage is fascinating.
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 | Midnight: A Gangster Love Story by Sister Souljah
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $3.50 Controversial, culturally dynamic, well written, these prequel to The Coldest Winter Ever imaginines the life of a young man from the Sudan who negotiates his life in New York.
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