21st Century African-American Fiction Jeffery Renard Allen. Song of the Shank: A Novel Lesley Nneka Arimah. What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky Natalie Baszile. Queen Sugar: A Novel Paul Beatty. The Sellout: A Novel Brit Bennett. The Mothers: A Novel Cynthia Bond. Ruby Zinzi Clemmons. What We Lose: A Novel Teju Cole. Every Day is For the Thief Kia Corthron. The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter Natashia Deon. Grace: A Novel Danielle Evans. Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self Percival Everett. Assumption: A Novel Angela Flournoy. The Turner House Roxanne Gay. Difficult Women Kaitlyn Greenidge. We Love You, Charlie Freeman Yaa Gyasi. Homegoing: A Novel James Hannahan. Delicious Foods: A Novel Mitchell S. Jackson. The Residue Years: A Novel T. Geronimo Johnson. Welcome to Braggsville Mat Johnson. Loving Day Tayari Jones. Silver Sparrow Victor Lavalle. The Changeling Attica Locke. Bluebird, Bluebird: A Novel Ayana Mathis. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Imbolo Mbue. Behold the Dreamers James McBride. Five Carat Soul Toni Morrison. God Help the Child: A Novel Walter Mosley. Last Days of Ptolemy Gray Z.Z. Packer. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Darryl Pinkney. Black Deutchland: A Novel Margaret Wilkerson Sexton. A Kind of Freedom: A Novel Asali Solomon. Disgruntled: A Novel Martha Southgate. The Taste of Salt Lalita Tademy. Red River: A Novel Jacinda Townsend. Saint Monkey: A Novel Jesmyn Ward. Salvage the Bones Stephanie Powell Watts. No One is Coming to Save Us Colson Whitehead. The Underground Railroad Jacqueline Woodson. Another Brooklyn

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