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#OwnVoices Fiction by Black Authors
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The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett F BEN
Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
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More to Life
by ReShonda Tate Billingsley F BIL
An unfulfilled wife and mother enrages her family and stuns her friends when she makes an impulsive decision to change her life from taking care of everyone except herself and focus on her own happiness during a tropical vacation.
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
by Oyinkan Braithwaite F BRA
Realizing that her beautiful, beloved younger sister has murdered yet another boyfriend, an embittered Nigerian woman works to direct suspicion away from the family, until a handsome doctor she fancies asks for her sister's number.
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Everywhere You Don't Belong
by Gabriel Bump F BUM
Raised by a civil-rights activist grandmother on the South Side of Chicago, Claude McKay Love searches for a sense of belonging before a riot compels his departure for college, where he discovers he cannot escape his past.
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The Girl with the Louding Voice
by Abi Daré F DAR
Adunni, a 14-year-old Nigerian girl who longs for an education, must find a way for her voice to be heard loud and clear in a world where she and other girls like her are taught to believe, through words and deeds, that they are nothing.
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The Turner House
by Angela Flournoy F FLO
Learning that after a half-century of family life that their house on Detroit's East Side is worth only a fraction of its mortgage, the members of the Turner family gather to reckon with their pasts and decide the house's fate.
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The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
by Anissa Gray F GRA
When their formidably strong-willed eldest sister is arrested, abruptly transitioning their family from respectability to disgrace, two younger sisters confront complicated dynamics in their family and identities to uncover what really happened.
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An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones F JON
When her new husband is arrested and imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising artist takes comfort in a longtime friendship only to encounter unexpected challenges in resuming her life when her husband's sentence is suddenly overturned.
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I Almost Forgot About You
by Terry McMillan F MCM
Feeling stuck and restless in spite of her great friends, family and career, Dr. Georgia Young confronts long-standing fears to embark on a wild journey that may or may not give her a second chance at love. By the best-selling author of Waiting to Exhale.
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It's Not All Downhill From Here
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Terry McMillan F MCM
Confident that her best days are still ahead, a successful businesswoman relies on close friends and her resourcefulness when an unexpected loss turns her world upside down.
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An Orchestra of Minorities
by Chigozie Obioma F OBI
In a contemporary twist of Homer's The Odyssey, a guardian spirit recounts the tragic story of a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything for the wealthy woman he loves.
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The Travelers
by Regina Porter F POR
A first novel by an award-winning playwright follows the experiences of two American families, one black and one white, against a backdrop of historical events from the 1950s through the first year of Barack Obama's presidency.
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Such a Fun Age
by Kiley Reid F REI
Seeking justice for a young black babysitter who was wrongly accused of kidnapping by a racist security guard, a successful blogger finds her efforts complicated by a video that reveals unexpected connections.
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The Revisioners
by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton F SEX
The author of the National Book Award-nominated A Kind of Freedom explores the impact of racism and interracial relationships between women through the story of an early 20th-century farmer and her unemployed single mother descendant.
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward F WAR
Living with his grandparents and toddler sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his tormented mother's addictions and his grandmother's terminal cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope. By the National Book Award-winning author of Salvage the Bones.
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No one is Coming to Save Us
by Stephanie Powell Watts F WAT
A tale inspired by The Great Gatsby is set in the contemporary South and follows the difficulties endured by an extended black family with colliding visions of the American dream.
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Red at the Bone
by Jacqueline Woodson F WOO
As Melody celebrates a coming of age ceremony at her grandparents’ house in 2001 Brooklyn, her family remembers 1985, when Melody’s own mother prepared for a similar party that never took place in this novel about different social classes.
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Coyotes of Carthage
by Steven Wright F WRI
In a small South Carolina town, a political operative runs a dark-money campaign for his corporate clients.
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