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Book |
Author |
Dewey Number |
Description |
The Butler |
Wil Haygood |
92 ALL |
Biography of White House butler Eugene Allen
that inspired the Academy-Award nominated movie. |
The Bridge |
David Remnick |
92 OBA |
Biography of Barack Obama’s childhood and
early political years, through the “prism of our racial history”. |
My Lord, What A Morning |
Marian Anderson |
92 AND |
Autobiography of singer Marian Anderson. |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Maya Angelou |
92 ANG |
Nominated for a National Book Award in 1970,
this well- known autobiography remained on the NY Times bestseller list for 2
years. |
Bitch is the New Black |
Helena Andrews |
92 AND |
Andrew’s twenty-first century take on being
single, black, well-educated and female in the United States. |
Up From Slavery |
Booker T. Washington |
92 WAS |
A classic. |
Malcolm |
Bruce Perry |
92 X |
Biography of Malcolm X, political leader assassinated at age 39. |
The Measure of a Man |
Sidney Poitier |
92 POI |
Autobiography of film star Sidney
Poitier—whose career broke many racial barriers. |
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace |
Jeff Hobs |
92 PEA |
Biography of Robert Peace, who left a ghetto
outside of Newark to graduate from Yale University, yet died suddenly from
involvement in the drug trade. |
Between the World and Me |
Ta-Nehisi Coates |
305.8 COA |
2015 National Book Award winner. |
The Firebrand and the First Lady |
Patricia Bell-Scott |
920 BEL |
A portrait of the friendship between Eleanor
Roosevelt and social activist Pauli Murray. |
The Invisibles |
Jesse J. Holland |
306.362 |
The untold story of African American slaves
in the White House. |
Gateway to Freedom |
Eric Foner |
973.711 FON |
The hidden
history of the Underground Railroad. |
Daisy Turner’s Kin |
Jane C. Beck |
929.2 BEC |
An African American family saga about
Grafton’s own Turner family. |
A Mercy |
Toni Morrison |
FIC MOR |
A tale by about the early days of slavery in
the 1680s. |
Freeman |
Leonard Pitts, Jr. |
FIC PIT |
A post-Civil War story about the search for
love and life after the end of slavery. |
Miracle at St. Anna |
James McBride |
FIC MCB |
Award-winning author of The Color of Water
pens a fictional account of the famed Buffalo Soldiers of the 92nd
Division in Italy in WWII. |
The Buffalo Soldier |
Chris Bohjalian |
FIC BOH |
Popular Vermont author Bohjalian explores the
adoption of an African American child by white parents in this story set in
northern Vermont. |
Wench |
Dolen Perkins-Valdez |
FIC PER |
A fascinating look at “moral complexities and
racial intricacies” in America’s past through the story of a Southern resort,
pre-Civil War, that exists for white men and their enslaved black mistresses. |
Juneteenth |
Ralph Ellison |
FIC
ELL |
Author explores relationship between a
race-baiting US senator and the black minister who shares a secret past with
him. |
Invisible Man |
Ralph Ellison |
FIC ELL |
Ellison won the 1953 National Book Award for
this classic about the black experience. |
The House Girl |
Tara Conklin |
FIC CON |
A lawyer seeking reparations for the
descendants of slaves uncovers a secret that rocks the art world. |
A Stranger in the Kingdom |
Howard Frank Mosher |
FIC MOS |
Set in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont in
the 1950s, a newly hired black minister is accused of the murder of a
teenaged girl and the community is torn apart. |
Song Yet Sung |
James McBride |
FIC MCB |
A gripping pre-Civil War tale of an escaped
slave based on actual historic events. |
New England White |
Stephen L. Carter |
FIC CAR |
Story by an author that “does for members of
the contemporary black upper class what Henry James did for Washington Square
society” |
Strivers Row |
Kevin Baker |
FIC |
Historical fiction about the fateful meeting
in Harlem, 1943 of Malcolm Little (Malcolm X) and Reverend Jonah Dove. |
Americanah |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
FIC ADI |
Immigrants from Nigeria confront many
opportunities and challenges in the United States, including issues of race. |