Category: African American Literature (Sorted by Author's last name)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) - Maya Angelou (1928-) (Grade:B)
Prime Time Blues : African Americans on Network Television (2001) - Donald Bogle (-) (Grade:C-)
Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (1853) - William Wells Brown (1814-1884) (Grade:B)
Kindred (1979) - Octavia Butler (1947-) (Grade:A)
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar () - Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) (Grade:B+)
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1969) - Sam Greenlee (-) (Grade:C+)
If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945) - Chester Himes (1909-1984) (Grade:B+)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) - Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) (Grade:B)
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) - James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) (Grade:B+)
Middle Passage (1990) - Charles R. Johnson (1948-) (Grade:C)
Dreamer: A Novel (1998) - Charles R. Johnson (1948-) (Grade:C)
Beloved (1987) - Toni Morrison (1931-) (Grade:F)
Jazz (1992) - Toni Morrison (1931-) (Grade:D)
Black Empire (1936-38) - George S. Schuyler (1895-1977) (Grade:A-)
The Color Purple (1982) - Alice Walker (1944-) (Grade:B+)
Up From Slavery (1901) - Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) (Grade:A)
Native Son (1940) - Richard Wright (1908-1960) (Grade:C+)
Black Boy (1945) - Richard Wright (1908-1960) (Grade:C)
