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A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
From the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde is an epic love story one hundred years in the making...
Last Stop from Innocence by Takerra Allen
A nostalgic tale of first love, first loss, and the budding womanhood of a Black girl in the '90s.
By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register by Piper Huguley
The incredible untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves, rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America's most famous wedding dresses of all time for Jackie Kennedy.
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become?
Hell of a Book: A Novel by Jason Mott
In Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and more urgent: Mott’s novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour.
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Inspired by true events and brimming with hope, Take My Hand is a stirring exploration of accountability and redemption.
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, Kenny, and Byron, Kenny's older brother, who at thirteen is an "official juvenile delinquent."
The Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
Called “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this “fully immersive” (Lisa Wingate, #1 bestselling author of Before We Were Yours) story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia.
Through the Storm by Beverly Jenkins
Beginning in 1864, Through the Storm chronicles the tumultuous lives of onetime lovers Raimond Le Veq and Sable Fontaine.
The Iron Collar by Susan D. Peters
Read as Detectives try to catch a murderer who is not who or what they appear to be, but everything that makes a psychopath need to kill.
Reel by Kennedy Ryan
It’s easier to place in general fiction because, while it definitely has romance elements, it also has deep historical roots. Kennedy Ryan draws much of her inspiration for the story from the lives of those who lived during the set time of the story to be told.