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A Selected Reading List of Books
Available at a County of Los Angeles Public Library
ANGELOU, MAYA
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes. 1991.
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou. 1994.
Gather Together in My Name. 1975.
The Heart of a Woman. 1981.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 1997.
I Shall Not Be Moved. 1990.
Even the Stars Look Lonesome. 1997.
On the Pulse of Morning. 1993.
Phenomenal Woman, Paintings by Paul Gauguin. 2000.
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas. 1977.
A Song Flung up to Heaven. 2002.
Still I Rise. 2001.
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now. 1993.
BALDWIN, JAMES
Another Country. 1993.
Collected Essays. 1998.
Early Novels and Stories. 1998.
The Fire Next Time. 1992.
Giovanni's Room. 2000.
Go Tell It on the Mountain. 1985.
Going to Meet the Man. 1995.
Native Sons: A Friendship that Created One of the Greatest Works of the Twentieth Century: Notes of a Native Son. 2004 (James Baldwin and Sol Stein).
Vintage Baldwin. 2004.
BARAKA, IMAMU AMIRI
The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka. 1984.
Eulogies. 1996.
The Fiction of LeRoi Jones. 2000.
Selected Plays and Prose of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones. 1979.
Transbluesency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones. 1995.
BUTLER, OCTAVIA E.
Adulthood Rites. 1989.
Bloodchild and Other Stories. 1996.
Dawn. 1987.
Imago. 1989.
Kindred. 2003.
Mind of My Mind. 1994.
Parable of the Sower. 1993.
Parable of the Talents. 1998.
CAMPBELL, BEBE MOORE
Brothers and Sisters. 1994.
Singing in the Comeback Choir. 1999.
Sweet Summer: Growing Up With & Without My Dad. 1990.
What You Owe Me. 2001.
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine. 1995.
COOPER, J. CALIFORNIA
Family: A Novel. 1991.
The Future has a Past. 2000.
In Search of Satisfaction. 1994.
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime. 1995.
Wake of the Wind. 1998.
DATCHER, MICHAEL
Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story. 2001.
DICKEY, ERIC JEROME
Between Lovers. 2001.
Cheaters. 1999.
Drive Me Crazy. 2004.
Friends and Lovers. 1997.
Liar's Game. 2000.
Milk in My Coffee. 1998.
Naughty or Nice. 2003.
The Other Woman. 2003.
Thieves' Paradise. 2002.
DOVE, RITA
American Smooth: Poems. 2004.
Mother Love: Poems. 1995.
On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems. 1999.
Selected Poems. 1993.
ELLISON, RALPH
Flying Home and Other Stories. 1996.
Going to the Territory. 1986.
Invisible Man. 1995.
Juneteenth. 1999.
Shadow and Act. 1964.
FISHER, ANTWONE QUENTON
Finding Fish: A Memoir. 2001.
Who Will Cry for the Little Boy: Poems. 2003.
GAINES, ERNEST J.
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. 1971.
A Gathering of Old Men. 1983.
In My Father's House. 1978.
A Lesson Before Dying. 1993.
HANSBERRY, LORRAINE
The Collected Last Plays. 1983.
A Raisin in the Sun. 1994.
To Be Young, Gifted and Black. 1969.
HAYWOOD, GAR ANTHONY
All the Lucky Ones are Dead. 1999.
Bad News Travels Fast. 1995.
Fear of the Dark. 1988.
Going Nowhere Fast. 1994.
It's Not a Pretty Sight. 1996.
Not Long for this World. 1990.
When Last Seen Alive. 1997.
You Can Die Trying. 1993.
Harris, E. Lynn
Abide With Me. 1999.
And This Too Shall Pass. 1996.
Any Way the Wind Blows. 2001.
If This World Were Mine. 1997.
Invisible Life. 1994.
Just As I Am. 1994.
A Love of My Own. 2002.
Not a Day Goes By. 2000.
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted. 2003.
HUGHES, LANGSTON
The Big Sea: An Autobiography. 1986.
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. 1994.
I Wonder As I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey. 1993.
Poems. 1999.
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. 1990.
Short Stories. 1996.
The Ways of White Folks. 1973.
HURSTON, ZORA NEALE
The Complete Stories. 1995.
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folktales from the Gulf States. 2001.
Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings. 1999.
Jonah's Gourd Vine: A Novel. 1990.
Moses, Man of the Mountain. 1984.
Their Eyes Were Watching God. 1998.
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters. 2002.
MC MILLAN, TERRY
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction. 1990.
A Day Late and a Dollar Short. 2001.
Disappearing Acts. 2004.
How Stella Got Her Groove Back. 1996.
Mama. 1987.
Waiting to Exhale. 1992.
MORRISON, TONI
Beloved. 2000.
The Bluest Eyes. 2000.
Jazz. 1992.
Love. 2003.
Paradise. 1998.
Song of Solomon. 2004.
Sula. 1973.
Tar Baby. 1981.
MOSLEY, WALTER
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. 1997.
Bad Boy Brawley Brown. 2002.
Black Betty. 1994.
Blue Light. 1998.
Devil in a Blue Dress. 1990.
Fear Itself. 2003.
Fearless Jones. 2001.
Futureland. 2001.
Gone Fishin'. 1997.
Little Scarlet. 2004.
A Little Yellow Dog. 1996.
The Man in My Basement. 2004.
A Red Death. 1991.
RL's Dream. 1995.
Six Easy Pieces: Easy Rawlins Stories. 2003.
Walkin' the Dog. 1999.
What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace. 2003.
NAYLOR, GLORIA
Bailey's Cafe. 1992.
Mama Day. 1993.
Men of Brewster Place. 1998.
The Women of Brewster Place. 1983.
TYREE, OMAR
Cold Blooded. 2004.
Diary of a Groupie. 2003.
Flyy Girl. 1996.
For the Love of Money. 2000.
Just Say No! 2001.
Leslie. 2002.
Single Mom. 1998.
Sweet St. Louis. 1999.
WALKER, ALICE
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems. 2003.
Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism. 1997.
By the Light of My Father's Smile. 1998.
The Color Purple. 2003.
Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems, 1965-1990 Complete. 1991.
Now is the Time to Open Your Heart. 2004.
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings. 2003.
Possessing the Secret of Joy. 1992.
The Temple of My Familiar. 1989.
The Third Life of Grange Copeland. 2000.
The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart. 2000.
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories. 1981.
WIDEMAN, JOHN EDGAR
All Stories are True. 1993.
Brothers and Keepers. 1984.
The Cattle Killing. 1996.
Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society. 1994.
Hoop Roots. 2001.
Philadelphia Fire: A Novel. 1990.
Two Cities. 1998.
WILSON, AUGUST
Fences. 1986.
Joe Turner's Come and Gone: A Play In Two Acts. 1988.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. 1985.
The Piano Lesson. 1990.
WRIGHT, RICHARD
Black Boy. 1998.
Early Works; Later Works. 1991.
Haiku: This Other World. 1998.
Native Son. 1998.
The Outsider. 2003.
Rite of Passage. 1994.
X, MALCOLM
The Autobiography of Malcolm X. 1999.
By Any Means Necessary: Speeches, Interviews and a Letter. 1970.
Malcolm X: The Last Speeches. 1989.
Malcolm X Speaks Out. 1992.
Malcolm X: Speeches at Harvard. 1991.
Malcolm X Talks to Young People: Speeches in the U.S., Britain, and Africa. 1991.
Revised by Rose Mitchell, Black Resource Center Librarian / A C Bilbrew Library
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