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Race and Antiracism: HS Fiction & Poetry

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Some great fiction titles by Black authors.

Fiction and Poetry by Black Authors

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds; Brendan Kiely
Call Number: EBOOK FIC REY
Publication Date: 2015-09-29
American Street by Ibi Zoboi
Call Number: EBOOK FIC ZOB
ISBN: 9780062473042
Publication Date: 2017-02-14
The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
Call Number: EBOOK FIC
ISBN: 9780802156860
Publication Date: 2020-09-15
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Call Number: EBOOK FIC
ISBN: 9780307388629
Publication Date: 1985
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
Call Number: EBOOK 811.54 RAN
ISBN: 9781555976903
Publication Date: 2014-10-07
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Call Number: EBOOK FIC
ISBN: 9781101939499
Publication Date: 2017-10-17
Digest by Gregory Pardlo
Call Number: EBOOK 811.6 PAR
Publication Date: 2014-10-07
Fantasia for the Man in Blue by Tommye Blount
Call Number: EBOOK 811.6
ISBN: 9781945588495
Publication Date: 2020-03-02
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Call Number: EBOOK FIC THO
ISBN: 9780062498533
Publication Date: 2017-02-28
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Call Number: EBOOK FIC and Audiobook
ISBN: 9781101947135
Publication Date: 2016-06-07

Fiction and Poetry by Black Authors

Homie: Poems by Danez Smith; read by the poet
Call Number: AUDIO 811.6 SMI
ISBN: 9781644450109
Publication Date: 2020-01-21
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Gilly Segal; Kimberly Jones
Call Number: EBOOK FIC
ISBN: 9781492678892
Publication Date: 2019-08-06
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Call Number: EBOOK FIC BAL
ISBN: 9780525566120
Publication Date: 2018-10-30
Incognegro: a Graphic Mystery (New Edition) by Mat Johnson; Warren Pleece (Illustrator)
Call Number: EBOOK FIC
ISBN: 9781506705644
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Call Number: EBOOK FIC
ISBN: 9780307743992
Publication Date: 1952
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler; John Jennings (Illustrator); Damian Duffy (Adapted by)
Call Number: EBOOK FIC
ISBN: 9781613128626
Publication Date: 2017-01-10
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: EBOOK FIC WHI
ISBN: 9780385537070
Publication Date: 2019-07-16
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Call Number: EBOOK FIC THO
ISBN: 9780062498564
Publication Date: 2019-02-05
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Call Number: EBOOK FIC ACE
ISBN: 9780062662804
Publication Date: 2018-03-06

Fiction and Poetry by Black Authors

The Political Plays of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes; Susan Duffy
Call Number: EBOOK 812.52
ISBN: 9780585361864
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi; Yusef Salaam
Call Number: EBOOK FIC
ISBN: 9780062996503
Publication Date: 2020-09-01
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Call Number: EBOOK FIC WOO
ISBN: 9780525535270
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
Call Number: Audio FIC
ISBN: 9781250214751
Publication Date: 2020-01-21
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Call Number: EBOOK FIC
ISBN: 9781501126093
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Call Number: EBOOK FIC YOO
ISBN: 9780553496680
Publication Date: 2016-11-01
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Call Number: EBOOK FIC
ISBN: 9780061758126
Publication Date: 2009-03-17
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Call Number: EBOOK FIC
ISBN: 9780525658184
Publication Date: 2020-09-01
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: EBOOK FIC COA
ISBN: 9780399590597
Publication Date: 2019-09-24