African American Books with One Word Titles (List 1)
Explore our curated list of African American books with one-word titles. Discover powerful reads, from classics to contemporary works, celebrating Black voices and stories.
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Crave
by Darnella Ford
Sharply written, combining humor and subtley, "Crave" ascends in a heroic effort to touch those who have ever craved the need to be loved.
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Love
by Toni Morrison
The epitome of a group of women's ideals about love, fatherhood, and friendship, wealthy hotel owner Bill Cosey finds his life compromised by his troubled past and his feelings about a spellbinding woman named Celestial.
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Temptation
by Victoria Christopher Murray
Kyla and Jefferson Blake count their 16 years together as a wonderful blessing from God. Their marriage is passionate, their daughter is a joy, Jefferson's medial career is prospering and they have loyal friends. Kyla knows her newly divorced and lifelong friend, Jasmine, is desperately unhappy and no amount of prayer or encouragement seems to help. But what Kyla doesn't know is that Jasmine has a plan to move her life forward with the type of man she feels she should have married in the first place. A man like Jefferson. Alexis Ward, Kyla's, best friend, is single and successful and willing to wait for the right man for all the right reasons. But, when "Mr. Right," Dr. Brian Lewis, finally appears she finds herself facing a new challenge. Does she really have to walk away from what she believes in order to have a man in her life? As people who love God, Kyla, Jefferson and Alexis discover, each in their own way, what happens when they truly allow God to be first in their relationships. Full of contemporary characters who struggle to keep their strength, friendships and daily lives framed by the Word of God, Temptation is a novel no reader will soon forget.
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Joy
by Victoria Christopher Murray
Brutally attacked in her office by a stalker, Anya Mitchell, owner of a successful L.A. financial services company, finds her faith in God and her relationship with a loving fiancT shaken by the aftermath of the attack and the painful decisions she must make. By the author of Temptation. Reprint. 18,000 first printing.
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Sethe. Proud and beautiful, she escaped from slavery but is haunted by its heritage - from the fires of the flesh to the heartbreaking challenges to the spirit.
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Roots
by Alex Haley
It begins with a birth in 1750, in an African village; it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor whose children are a teacher, a Navy architect, an assistant director of the U.S. Information Agency, and an author. The author is Alex Haley. This magnificent book is his.
