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Abiding hope / Benson, Angela
Accident of birth / Neff, Heather
Accidental diva / Williams, Tia
Accidental hunter / George, Nelson
Acting out / Little, Benilde
After the garden / Austin, Doris Jean
After the storm / Nelson, Annie Greene
Afterburn / Zane
Ain't no river / Foster, Sharon Ewell
Ain't nobody's business if I do / Wesley, Valerie Wilson
Alice Walker banned / Walker, Alice
All good things / Kitt, Sandra
All I need to get by / Scott, Sophfronia
All shot up / Himes, Chester
All the lucky ones are dead / Haywood, Gar Anthony
All the trouble you need / Tervalon, Jervey
All-Bright Court / Porter, Connie
Almost doesn't count / Parks, Electa Rome
Almost midnight / Belton, Don
Always / McCann, Timmothy B.
Always true to you in my fashion / Wesley, Valerie Wilson
American desert / Everett, Percival L.
Among others / Griffith, Lois
Amoralists & other tales / Colter, Cyrus
And bid him sing / DuBois, David Graham
And do remember me / Golden, Marita
And then we heard the thunder / Killens, John Oliver
Angel of Harlem / Haulsey, Kuwana
Angry ones / Williams, John A.
Annie John / Kincaid, Jamaica
Annotations / Keene, John
Another good loving blues / Flowers, Arthur
Appalachee Red / Andrews, Raymond
Appointed / Sanda, Ma
Ark of bones / Duman, Henry
As real as it gets / McKayhan, Monica
At the bottom of the river / Kincaid, Jamaica
Atlanta live / Green, Carmen
Atlantis : three tales / Delany, Samuel R.
Aunt Sara's wooden god / Gilbert, Mercedes
Autobiography of my mother / Kincaid, Jamaica
Avenue, Clayton City / Lincoln, C. Eric
Awakening mercy / Benson, Angela
Aye, and Gomorrah / Delany, Samuel R.
Baby momma drama / Weber, Carl
Baby Sweet's / Andrews, Raymond
Babylon sisters / Cleage, Pearl
Back to life / Coakley-Thompson, Wendy
Bad Boy Brawly Brown / Mosley, Walter
Bad news travels fast / Haywood, Gar Anthony
Baggage claim / Talbert, David E.
Bailey's Cafe / Naylor, Gloria
Balancing act / Bunkley, Anita R.
Be-bop, re-bop / Cartier, Xam
Beach umbrella. / Colter, Cyrus
Because of Grace / Norman-Bellamy, Kendra
Beetlecreek / Demby, William
Beloved / Morrison, Toni
Best defense / Cose, Ellis
Best of Simple / Hughes, Langston
Best-kept secret / Roby, Kimberla Lawson
Betrayal of the trust / Banks, Leslie E.
Betsey Brown / Shange, Ntozake
Between / Due, Tananarive
Between brothers / Robinson, C. Kelly
Billy / French, Albert
Black Betty / Mosley, Walter
Black empire / Schuyler, George S.
Black girl in Paris / Youngblood, Shay
Black rose / Due, Tananarive
Black sleuth / Bruce, John Edward
Black! : three short novels / Cooper, Jr. Clarence
Blackgammon / Neff, Heather
Blanche cleans up / Neely, Barbara
Blanche passes go / Neely, Barbara
Blind ambitions / Files, Lolita
Blind man with a pistol / Himes, Chester
Bling / Kennedy, Erica
Blinking red light / Frisby, Mister Mann
Bliss / Pina, Gabrielle
Blood on the leaves / Stetson, Jeff
Bloodworth orphans / Forrest, Leon
Blowback / Fullilove, Eric James
Blue blood / Thomas-Graham, Pamela
Blue collar blues / McMillan, Rosalyn
Blue light / Mosley, Walter
Blues dancing / McKinney-Whetstone, Diane
Blues from down deep / Forster, Gwynne
Bluest eye / Morrison, Toni
Boaz Brown / Stimpson, Michelle
Bombingham / Grooms, Anthony
Bondwoman's narrative / Crafts, Hannah
Boss lady / Tyree, Omar
Boy at the window / Dodson, Owen
Breeder and other stories / Collier, Eugenia
Bridge / Jones, Solomon
Bridge of lost desire / Delany, Samuel R.
Brothers and sisters / Campbell, Bebe Moore
Brown girl in the ring / Hopkinson, Nalo
Brown girl, brownstones / Marshall, Paule
Brown glass windows / Major, Devorah
Bruised hibiscus / Nunez, Elizabeth
Bye, bye, love / Swift, Virginia
Can't get enough / Briscoe, Connie
Cane River / Tademy, Lalita
Captain Swing / Duplechan, Larry
Cares of the day / Webster, Ivan
Case of Mrs. Wingate / Micheaux, Oscar
Case of the Ashanti gold / Mason, Clifford
Casting the first stone / Roby, Kimberla Lawson
Catherine Carmier / Gaines, Ernest J.
Cattle killing / Wideman, John Edgar
Caught in the mix / Dow, Candice
Change is gonna come / Thomas, Jacquelin
Chicago blues / Holton, Hugh
Child of God / Files, Lolita
Chinaberry tree / Fauset, Jessie
Chocolate soldier / Colter, Cyrus
Cinnamon kiss / Mosley, Walter
City of refuge / Fisher, Rudolph
Clay's ark / Butler, Octavia E.
Click song / Williams, John A.
Clifford's blues / Williams, John A.
Close to the bone / Lamar, Jake
Clover / Sanders, Dori
Cold medina / Hardwick, Gary
Coldest winter ever / Souljah, Sister
Color of family / Jones, Patricia
Color purple / Walker, Alice
Colored garden / Bennett, O.H.
Colored sugar water / Berry, Venise
Company man / Wade, Brent
Conjure-man dies / Fisher, Rudolph
Coq au vin / Carter, Charlotte
Corregidora / Jones, Gayl
Cotton comes to Harlem / Himes, Chester
Counter-clockwise / Lee, John M.
Cover girls / Jakes, T.D.
Crave / Ford, Darnella
Crawfish dreams / Rawles, Nancy
Criminal appeal / Schanker, D.R.
Crossing over Jordan / Brown, Linda Beatrice
Cry me a river / Hill, Ernest
Cubicles / Spencer, Camika
Curving road / Stewart, John
Cutting Lisa / Everett, Percival
Damaged! / Connor, Bernadette Y.
Damned if I do / Everett, Percival L.
Dancers on the shore / Kelley, William Melvin
Dangerous dilemmas / Palfrey, Evelyn
Dangerous road / Nelscott, Kris
Dark princess, a romance / Du Bois, W.E.B.
Darker shade of crimson / Thomas-Graham, Pamela
Darkest child / Phillips, Delores
Darktown strutters / Brown, Wesley
Dating games / Johnson, R.M.
Daughters / Marshall, Paule
Dawn : xenogenesis / Butler, Octavia E.
Dawn appears / Nelson, Annie Greene
Days without weather / Brown, Cecil
Dead above ground / Tervalon, Jervey
Dead piano / VanDyke, Henry
Deadly triplets / Kennedy, Adrienne
Delta sisters / Perrin, Kayla
Dem / Kelley, William Melvin
Dessa Rose / Williams, Sherley Anne
Details at ten / Garland, Ardella
Devil in a blue dress / Mosley, Walter
Devil's backbone / Greer, Robert O.
Devil's hatband / Greer, Robert O.
Devil's red nickel / Greer, Robert O.
Devil's shadow / Holton, Hugh
Dhalgren / Delany, Samuel R.
Diamond life / Copeland, Sheila
Diary of a groupie / Tyree, Omar
Dirty laundry / Woods, Paula L.
Discretion / Nunez, Elizabeth
Distant lover / Mallette, Gloria
Distant stars / Delany, Samuel R.
Divine days / Forrest, Leon
Do Lord remember me / Lester, Julius
Do not go gently / Smith-Levin, Judith
Do or die / Edwards, Grace F.
Do unto others / Lattany, Kristin
Don't ever wonder / Coleman, Darren
Don't explain / Gomez, Jewelle
Don't want no sugar / Mason, J. D.
Done wrong / Bland, Eleanor Taylor
Double dead / Hardwick, Gary
Drift / Ridley, John
Drop / Johnson, Mat
Drumsticks / Carter, Charlotte
Duey's tale / Bailey, Pearl
Dying ground / Tramble, Nichelle D.
Easier to kill / Wesley, Valerie Wilson
Echo of lions / Chase-Riboud, Barbara
Echo tree / Dumas, Henry
Eden / Vernon, Olympia
Eden, Ohio / Johnson, Shawne
Edge of heaven / Golden, Marita
Eighth of August / Trice, Dawn Turner
Emergency exit / Major, Clarence
Emily, the yellow rose / Bunkley, Anita R.
Emperor of Ocean Park / Carter, Stephen L.
End of a primitive / Himes, Chester
Erasure / Everett, Percival
Ethiopian stories / Schuyler, George S.
Eva's man / Jones, Gayl
Every sistah wants it / McGlothin, Victor
Everything in its place / Palfrey, Evelyn
Fall of Rome / Southgate, Martha
Family affair / Major, Marcus
Family affairs. / Kitt, Sandra
Family matters / Rosenberg, Joel
Fanatics. / Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Far from the tree / DeBerry, Virginia
Faraday's popcorn factory / Gould, Sandra Lee
Fatal remains / Bland, Eleanor Taylor
Father found / Johnson, R.M.
Fear itself / Mosley, Walter
Fear of the dark / Haywood, Gar Anthony
Fear's justice / Olden, Marc
Fearless Jones / Mosley, Walter
Fiction of LeRoi Jones / Baraka, Amiri
Finding Makeba / Pate, Alexs D.
Fire in Beulah / Askew, Rilla
Fire in the canes / Lovell, Glenville
Firecracker / Shannon, Ray
First thing smoking / Eubanks, Nelson
Fisher king / Marshall, Paule
Flashpoint / Tillis, Tracey
Flight from Nevereyon / Delany, Samuel R.
Flight of the blackbird / Smith, Faye McDonald
Fling with a demon lover / James, Kelvin Christopher
Flippin' the script / Ford, Aisha
Floating / Bailey-Williams, Nicole
For love of Imabelle / Himes, Chester
4 guys and trouble / Major, Marcus
47th Street Black / Ojikutu, Bayo
Fragments of the ark / Meriwether, Louise
Free / Hunt, Marsha
Free and other stories / Nailah, Anika
Frenzy / Everett, Percival
Friends. / Guy, Rosa
Frye Street & environs / Bonner, Marita
Full Matilda / Haynes, David
Fun & games / Major, Clarence
Future has a past / Cooper, J. California
Futureland / Mosley, Walter
Gabriel's story / Durham, David Anthony
Gaijin / Olden, Marc
Garden's corner / Reed, Douglas
Garies and their friends / Webb, Frank J.
Gathering of old men / Gaines, Ernest J.
Gets no love / Pete, Eric
Getting mother's body / Parks, Suzan-Lori
Getting our breath back / Johnson, Shawne
Getting right with God / Newton, Lionel
Ghost / Olden, Marc
Gilda stories / Gomez, Jewelle
Gingersnaps / Welch-Tyson, Delorys
Gingertown / McKay, Claude
Girls from da hood / Turner, Nikki
Glamorous life / Turner, Nikki
Glyph / Everett, Percival
God's country / Everett, Percival
God's gift to women / Baisden, Michael
God's gym / Wideman, John Edgar
Going buck wild / Foxx, Nina
Going nowhere fast / Haywood, Gar Anthony
Gone fishin' / Mosley, Walter
Gone quiet / Bland, Eleanor Taylor
Good fences / Ellis, Erika
Good house / Due, Tananarive
Good Negress / Verdelle, A.J.
Goodbye sweetwater / Dumas, Henry
Gospel choirs / Bell, Derrick
Got a man / Poole, Daamiah S.
Gotham diaries / Lee, Tonya Lewis
Grace / Nunez, Elizabeth
GraceLand / Abani, Chris
Granddaddy's dirt / Egeston, Brian
Great Black Russian / Killens, John Oliver
Greater need below / Shaw, O'Wendell
Hand I fan with / Ansa, Tina McElroy
Hanging by her teeth / Greer, Bonnie
Harlem / Riley, Len
Harlem redux / Walker, Persia
Harris family / Johnson, R.M.
Harris men / Johnson, R.M.
Hatwearer's lesson / Joe, Yolanda
Haunting of hip hop / Berry, Bertice
He had it coming / Spencer, Camika
He sleeps / McKnight, Reginald
Heart of devotion / McCollors, Tia
Hearts of men / Hunter, Travis
Heat shock / Greer, Robert O.
Heat's on / Himes, Chester
Heathens / Haynes, David
Her / Muhanji, Cherry
Her own place / Sanders, Dori
Here and now / Roby, Kimberla Lawson
Heroin factor / McEachin, James
Hidden in plain view / Walker, Blair S.
Hideaway saga / Alers, Rochelle
Hiding place / Wideman, John Edgar
High cotton / Pinckney, Darryl
Hippodrome / Colter, Cyrus
Hit time / Garland, Ardella
Home repairs / Ellis, Trey
Home to Harlem / McKay, Claude
Homemade love / Cooper, J. California
Homewood trilogy / Wideman, John Edgar
Honey dipper's legacy / Pannell-Allen, Myra
Hot spot / Stovall, TaRessa
Hotel Alleluia / Roy, Lucinda
Hottentot Venus / Chase-Riboud, Barbara
House is not a home / Hardy, James Earl
Hunting in Harlem / Johnson, Mat
I can't wait on God / French, Albert
I got somebody in Staunton / Lewis, William Henry
I left my back door open / Sinclair, April
I'm telling / Miller, Karen E. Quinones
Ida B. / Miller, Karen E. Quinones
Ida B. / Miller, Karen E. Quinones
If this world were mine / Harris, E. Lynn
If we must die / Edwards, Junius
If you walked in my shoes / Forster, Gwynne
Image to die for / Phillips, Mike
Imagine this / Stringer, Vickie M.
In love & trouble / Walker, Alice
In my bedroom / Hill, Donna
In my father's house / Gaines, Ernest J.
In search of satisfaction / Cooper, J. California
In sheep's clothing / Monroe, Mary
In the game / Baker, Nikki
In the shadow of the peacock / Edwards-Yearwood, Grace
Infants of the spring / Thurman, Wallace
Inner city blues / Woods, Paula L.
Interesting women / Lee, Andrea
Interruption of everything / McMillan, Terry
Isle of Canes / Mills, Elizabeth Shown
It's a thin line / Roby, Kimberla Lawson
It's not a pretty sight / Haywood, Gar Anthony
Itch / Little, Benilde
Jackson Park / Carter, Charlotte
Jacob's ladder / Williams, John A.
Jamaica run / Mason, Clifford
Japanese by spring / Reed, Ishmael
Jesus thief / Lankford, J.R.
Jonah's gourd vine / Hurston, Zora Neale
Joplin's ghost / Due, Tananarive
Journey to here / Johnson-Hodge, Margaret
Joy / Hunt, Marsha
Jumping ship and other stories / James, Kelvin Christopher
Juneteenth / Ellison, Ralph
Just as I am / Harris, E. Lynn
Just in time / Williams, Billy Dee
Just my luck / Butler, Tajuana
Keep still / Bland, Eleanor Taylor
Killing color / Sherman, Charlotte Watson
Knee-deep in wonder / Reynolds, April
Knowing / McMIllan, Rosalyn
Known world / Jones, Edward P.
Kwanzaa fable / Copage, Eric V.
L.A. justice / Darden, Christopher
Laelia / Garnett, Ruth-Miriam
Lakestown rebellion / Hunter, Kristin
Larissa's breadbook / Johnson-Coleman, Lorraine
Last defense / Darden, Christopher
Last integrationist / Lamar, Jake
Last king / Tramble, Nichelle D.
Last king / Tramble, Nichelle D.
Lawd today! / Wright, Richard
Lawless / Darden, Christopher
Laying on of hands / Miller, Brenda Rhodes
Leaving / Dry, Richard
Leaving Atlanta / Jones, Tayari
Leaving Cecil Street / McKinney-Whetstone, Diane
Lemon City / Brown, Elaine Meryl
Leslie / Tyree, Omar
Lesson before dying / Gaines, Ernest J.
Let the church say amen / Billingsley, ReShonda Tate
Let the lion eat straw / Southerland, Ellease
Life for a life / Hill, Ernest
Like boogie on Tuesday / Grosvenor, Linda Dominique
Like the first time / Ray, Francis
Limited time / Greer, Robert O.
Linden Hills / Naylor, Gloria
Lion's blood / Barnes, Steven
Lita / Tervalon, Jervey
Little piece of sky / Bailey-Williams, Nicole
Little Scarlet / Mosley, Walter
Little yellow dog / Mosley, Walter
Live at five / Haynes, David
Living water / Hendricks, Obery
Long distance life / Golden, Marita
Long goodbyes / Baker, Nikki
Long way from home / Briscoe, Connie
Loose ends / Parks, Electa Rome
Losing Absalom / Pate, Alexs D.
Loss of innocence / West, Chassie
Lou in the limelight / Hunter, Kristin
Lova' like no otha' / Moore, Stephanie Perry
Love / Morrison, Toni
Love and death in Brooklyn / Lovell, Glenville
Love is a racket / Ridley, John
Love like gumbo / Rawles, Nancy
Love noire / Turnipseed, Erica Simone
Love of my own / Harris, E. Lynn
Love on the dotted line / Talbert, David E.
Love story / Millner, Denene
Loving Donovan / McFadden, Bernice L.
Luminous mysteries / Holman, John
Magic keys / Murray, Albert
Maid in the shade / Banks, Jacqueline Turner
Maintenance man / Baisden, Michael
Mama Flora's family / Haley, Alex
Mama saves a victim / DeLocah, Nora
Mama stalks the past / DeLoach, Nora
Mama stands accused / DeLoach, Nora
Mama's girls / Louard, Janette McCarthy
Man eater / Shannon, Ray
Man finds his way / Johnson, Freddie Lee
Man in my basement / Mosley, Walter
Man inspired / Jackson, Derek
Man walking on eggshells / Simmons, Herbert
Mandy Oxendine / Chesnutt, Charles W.
Mansart builds a school / Du Bois, W.E.B.
Marrow of tradition. / Chesnutt, Charles W.
Masquerade / Micheaux, Oscar
Matter is life / Cooper, J. California
McKenzie's Hundred / Yerby, Frank
Meant to be / Whack, Rita Coburn
Men of Brewster Place / Naylor, Gloria
Mercy, mercy me / Elmore, Ronn
Meteor in the madhouse / Forrest, Leon
Middle passage / Johnson, Charles
Midnight robber / Hopinkson, Nalo
Mighty love / Diggs, Anita Doreen
Million dollar divorce / Johnson, R. M.
Miracle at St. Anna / McBride, James
Mirror of her own / Guy, Rosa
Mirrored life / Bunkley, Anita R.
Miss Black America / Chambers, Veronica
Mississippi blues / Bell, Cassandra Darden
Mitt man / Taylor, Mel
Moaner's bench / Hill, Mars
Montgomery's children / Perry, Richard
Moses, man of the mountain / Hurston, Zora Neale
Mosquito / Jones, Gayl
Moustapha's eclipse / McKnight, Reginald
Mr. Dream Merchant / Bailey, Erroll J.
Mr. Potter / Kincaid, Jamaica
Multicultiboho sideshow / Pate, Alexs D.
My amputations / Major, Clarence
My fine lady / Joe, Yolanda
My Jim / Rawles, Nancy
My soul to keep / Due, Tananarive
N : a romantic mystery / Edwards, Louis
Naming the new world / Baker, Calvin
Nappily ever after / Thomas, Trisha R.
Near perfect / Mitchell, Sharon
Neither bond nor free / Pryor, G. Langhorne
Neva hafta / Jackson, Edwardo
Never kiss and tell / Howard, Tracie
Night journey / Kalam, Murad
Night songs / Mickelbury, Penny
Night studies / Colter, Cyrus
Night work / George, Nelson
No hiding place / Wesley, Valerie Wilson
No other tale to tell / Perry, Richard
No time to die / Edwards, Grace F.
Not a day goes by / Harris, E. Lynn
Not long for this world / Haywood, Gar Anthony
Not without laughter / Hughes, Langston
Nouvelle soul / Summers, Barbara
Nova / Delany, Samuel R.
Obsessed / Ephron, G.H.
October suite / Clair, Maxine
Once two heroes / Baker, Calvin
One flesh / Major, Clarence
One way to heaven / Cullen, Countee
One woman man / Hunter, Travis
One woman man / Hunter, Travis
One woman short / George, Nelson
Open weave / Major, Devorah
Operation burning candle / Jackson, Blyden
Orange crushed / Thomas-Graham, Pamela
Ordeal of Mansart / Du Bois, W.E.B.
Ordinary woman / Hill, Donna
Oreo / Ross, Fran
Other side of the game / Diggs, Anita Doreen
Out of the darkness / Grant, John Wesley
Oxherding tale / Johnson, Charles
Painted Turtle / Major, Clarence
Paradise / Morrison, Toni
Paradise interrupted / Mickelbury, Penny
Parcel express murders / Conoor, Bernadette Y.
Passing / Larsen, Nella
Passing by Samaria / Foster, Sharon Ewell
Passing into light / Foster, Sharon Ewell
Patches of fire / French, Albert
Patternmaster / Butler, Octavia E.
Paul Marchand, F.M.C. / Chesnutt, Charles W.
Pecking order / Kennedy, Mark
Perfect blend / Robinson, C. Kelly
Philadelphia fire / Wideman, John Edgar
Pipe dream / Jones, Solomon
Place between stations / Allen, Stephanie
Plain brown wrapper / Bates, Karen Grigsby
Plan B / Himes, Chester
Playa's handbook / Jackson, Brenda
Playing my mother's blues / Wesley, Valerie Wilson
Please please please / Swindle, Rence
Point of Darkness / Phillips, Mike
Pointing the way / Griggs, Sutton E.
Potentially yours / White, Franklin
Praise Jerusalem! / Trobaugh, Augusta
Praisesong for the widow / Marshall, Paule
Prayer for deliverance / Chambers, Christopher
President's daughter / Chase-Riboud, Barbara
Presumed dead / Holton, Hugh
Prey, Messiah / Rhodes, Jamie
Price of a child / Cary, Lorene
Price of passion / Palfrey, Evelyn
Pride / Cary, Lorene
Pride of Carthage / Durham, David Anthony