African American Books with One Word Titles (List 2)
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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Genevieve
by Eric Jerome Dickey
Eric Jerome Dickey's boldly sensual new novel centres on what his fans love best - steamy romance and shocking betrayal. This is an edge-of-your-seat novel about a good man who loves his wife, genevieve, but finds himself drawn against his best intentions into an affair with his wife's sister. Both women have a mysterious and tragic past that raises the stakes even higher in this fast-paced novel. Genevieve hits all the crowd-pleasing notes that we have come to expect from a Dickey novel and it is delivered in a style that is sexy, raw humourous and thrilling.
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Sula
by Toni Morrison
In clear, dark, resonant language, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison brilliantly evokes not only a bond between two lives, but the harsh, loveless, ultimately mad world in which that bond is destroyed, the world of the Bottom and its people. Unabridged. 5 CDs.
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Mama
by Terry McMillan
Mildred Peacock, mother of five, black, and fed up with poverty and the jealous rampages of her husband, kicks him out to raise her kids on her own.
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Tumbling
by Diane Mckinney-whetstone
A beautiful and uplifting debut from one of the,most exciting voices in new black fiction.,.
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Misdemeanor
by Tanya Marie Lewis
Malena Dawson is a daddy's girl turned bittesweet, having internalized the loss of her father. She thrived on the love of God that her parents instilled in her from early on, however when she goes offto college she becomes someone that even she doesn't recognize, filling herselfwith shallow misconceptions of life, love and success. Then Grant Carpenter, a younger admirer from her childhood resurfaces in her life. Malena, unsure of the age difference and still struggling with the death of her father, yo-yo's between wanting and denying Grant. She ultimately pushes him away.Soon after, she finds her life an empty void spinning helplessly out of controlthat she realizes that no one can help her...except God.
