WRC Suggested Reading Lists:

African-American Women: A Selected Fiction Reading List

The Accidental Diva (Williams) 2004

Adulthood Rites (Butler) 1988

Ain't Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice (Sinclair) 1996

And Do Remember Me (Golden) 1992

The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman (Gaines) c1971, 1972

Baby Of the Family (Ansa) 1989

Beloved (Morrison) 1987

Betsey Brown (Shange) 1985

The Between (Due) c1995, 1996

Between Friends (Kitt) 1998

The Big Mama Stories (Youngblood) 1989

The Black and White Of It (Shockley) 1980

Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds: Stories By and About Black Women (Washington) 1990

Black Girl In Paris (Youngblood) 2000

Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights (Straight) 1994

Blanche Cleans Up (Neely) 1998

Blood Will Tell (Grimes) 1997

Bloodchild: And Other Stories (Butler) 1995

Blue Blood (Thomas-Graham) 1999

The Bluest Eye (Morrison) c1970,1994

Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction (McMillan) 1990

Breathing Room (Elam) 2001

By the Light Of My Father's Smile (Walker) 1998

Caucasia (Senna) c1998, 1999

The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel Of American Life (Fauset) 1995

Coffee Will Make You Black (Sinclair) 1994

The Coldest Winter Ever (Souljah) 1999

The Color Purple (Walker) c1982, 1983

The Complete Stories (Hurston) 1995

Cosmopolitan Girls (Burley & LeFlore) 2004

Daddy Was a Number Runner (Meriwether) 1986

Dawn (Butler) c1987,1997

A Day Late and a Dollar Short (McMillan) 2001

Dessa Rose (Williams) c1986,1987

Disappearing Acts (McMillan) c1989, 1993

The Dying Ground: A Hip-Hop Noir Novel (Tramble) 2001

The Edge Of Heaven (Golden) c1998,1999

Family (Cooper) 1991

The Fisher King (Marshall) 2000

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf (Shange) 1977

Four Girls At Cottage City (Kelley-Hawkins) 1988

The Future Has a Past (Cooper) c2000, 2001

Getting Mother's Body (Parks) 2003

Whe Gilda Stories (Gomez) 1991

Girl In the Mirror (TarPley) 1998

God Don't Like Ugly (Monroe) 2000

The Good Negress (Verdelle) 1996

The Haunting Of Hip Hop (Berry) 1991

The Healing (Jones) 1998

Her (Muhanji) 1990

'How Stella Got Her Groove Back (McMillan) 1996

I Been In Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots (Straight) 1992

I Tituba, Black Witch Of Salem (Conde) c1992,1994

If I Should Die (Edwards) 1997

Imago (Butler) 1989

In Search Of Satisfaction (Cooper) 1994

An Intimation Of Things Distant: The Collected Fiction Of Nella Larsen (Larson) 1992

Invented Lives: Narratives Of Black Women, W0-1960 (Washington) c1987, 1988

lola Leroy (Harper) 1988

The Itch (Little) 1998

It's a Thin Line (Roby) 2001

Jackson Park (Carter) 2003

Jazz (Morrison) 1992

Jonah's Gourd; Mules and Men; Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston) 1990 Jubilee (Walker) c1966,1981

Killing Color (Sherman) 1992

Kindred (Butler) c1979,1988

Knee-Deep In Wonder (Reynolds) 2003

Let the Lion Eat Straw (Southerland) 1979

Liliane (Shange) 1994

Linden Hills (Naylor) c1985,1986

The Living Is Easy (West) c1948,1975

A Love Of My Own (Harris) 2002

Love Or a Reasonable Facsimile (Rogers) 1989

Loving Her (Shockley) c1974,1978

Magazine Novels Of Pauline Hopkins (Gates) 1988

Mama (McMillan) 1987

Mama Day (Naylor) c1988,1989

Mama Pursues Murderous Shadows (DeLoach) 2000

Mama Stalks the Past (DeLoach) 1997

Marked By Fire (Thomas) 1982

A Measure Of Time (Guy) c1983,1984

The Men Of Brewster Place (Naylor) 1998

Meridian (Walker) c1976,1977

Midnight Birds: Stories Of Contemporary Black Women Writers (Washington) 1980 Mind Of My Mind (Butler) 1977

Miss Muriel and Other Stories (Petry) c1945, 1989

Moon Marked and Touched By Sun: Plays By African-American Women (Mahone) 1994

The Moons Of Palmares (Amadahy) 1997

More Like Wrestling (D. Smith) 2003 .

Mosquito (Jones) 1999

Mules and Men (Hurston) 1963

My Soul To Keep (Due) c1997, 2001

Nappily Ever After (Thomas) 2000

New Voices From Aunt Lute (Burch) 1995

AlVight Songs (Mickelbury) 1999

Oreo (Ross) 1974

Parable Of the Sower (Butler) 1993

Parable Of the Talents (Butler) 1998

Paradise (Morrison) 1998

Passing (Jones) 1999

Passing (Larsen) 1997

A Piece Of Mine (Cooper) 1984

Plain Brown Wrapper (Bates) 2001

Plum Bun: A Novel Without Moral (Fauset) c1982,1985

Quicksand and Passing (Larsen) c1986, 1989

Red On a Rose (Jones) 2001

Reena and Other Stories (Marshall) 1983

Revolutionary Tales (Mullen) 1995

Riding Through Shadows (Foster) 2001

Rocking the Babies (Raymond) c1994, 1995

The Salt Eaters (Bambara) 1980

Sapphire's Grave (Gurley-Highgate) 2000

Sarah Phillips (Lee) 1984

Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo (Shange) 1982

The Sea Birds Are Still Alive: Collected Stories (Bambara) 1977

Seventy Soul Secrets Of Sapphire (Greene) 1973

A Short Walk (Childress) c1979,1981

Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry (Sherman) 1994

Some Love, Some Pain Sometimes (Cooper) 1995

Some People, Some Other Places (Cooper) 2004

Some Soul to Keep (Cooper) 1987

Somebody Else's Child (Grimes) 1996

Song Of Solomon (Morrison) c1977,1987

Soul Kiss (Youngblood) 1997

Spunk (Hurston) 1985

The Step Between (Mickelbury) 2000

The Street (Petry) c1974,1985

Sula (Morripon) c1973,1982

Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad (Campbell) 1989

Tale Of a Sky-Blue Dress (Moss) 1998

Tar Baby (Morrison) 1981

Tempest Rising (McICinney-Whetstone) 1988

Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston) c1973,1990

There Is Confusion (Fauset) c1951,1989

Thereafter Johnnie (Herron) 1991

The Third Life Of Grange Copeland (Walker) c1970,1977

This Child's Gonna Live (Wright) c1969, 1986

Those Bones Are Not My Child (Bambara) 1999

Three Pieces (ihange)1981

The Threshing Floor (Burford) 1986

A Toast Before Dying (Edwards) 1998

Tryin' To Sleep In the Bed You Made (DeBarry & Grant) 1997

Tumbling (McKinney-Whetstone) 1996

Ugly Ways (Ansa) 1993

The Unforgetting Heart: Antholo, (Kanwar) 1993

The Viaduct (Edwards) 2004

Voodoo Dreams (Rhodes) 1993

Waiting To Exhale (McMillan) c1992,1993

Water Marked (Lee) c1999, 2001

What a Woman's Gotta Do (Coleman) 1998

The Wedding (West) 1995

What Looks Like Crazy (Cleage) 1997

When Twilight Comes (Forester) 2002

Where To Choose (Mickelbury) 1999

Wines In the Wilderness: Plays By African American Women From the Harlem Renaissance To the Present (Brown-Guillory) 1990

Women Of Brewster Place (Naylor) c1982, 1V3

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down (Walker) 1981

Of Short Stories By African-American Women, 1859-1993