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By Monica Ali
Scribner, June 2009
Using the intense, hot and multicultural environment of a London restaurant kitchen as a backdrop, the packed novel centers on a troubled chef.
By Biyi Bandele
Amistad, March 2009
Published originally in the U.K., the novel focuses on black African soldiers who fought in WWII, a story that until now has been severely overlooked.
By Michele Andrea Bowen
Grand Central, April 2009
The Essence best-selling Christian fiction author returns with her fourth novel about two souls searching for love, happiness and faith.
By Connie Briscoe
Grand Central, June 2009
Briscoe returns with her brand of love and life fiction in this anticipated sequel to Sisters & Lovers.
By Stephen L. Carter
Knopf, July 2009
What comes out when a former CIA head and Wall Street mogul is on his death bed? Secrets, foreign involvement and betrayal.
By Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Random House, July 2009
Once out of print, this debut novel by the award-winning author of The Pirate’s Daughter has been brought back to life and tells the story of three women living in the harsh yet beautiful paradise that is Jamaica.
By J. California Cooper
Doubleday, March 2009
The treasured writer continues to impart wisdom, joy and relatable struggles through the colorful characters who inhabit a Midwestern town from the dawn of the 20th century.
By Petina Gappah
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2009
Called a “rising star of Zimbabwean literature” by J.M. Coetzee, the lawyer-turned-writer has penned a debut short story collection that portrays the lives of characters not often seen as they struggle to survive under Robert Mugabe’s regime.
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I'm reading this collection of short stories now. It's refreshing and quite insightful to understand how blacks folks from other spaces view America.
Thanks Felicia for this tremendous list.
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I went through the list and I was glad to see Another Country by Baldwin, Song of Solomon by Morrison, and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez. I would put all three on my favorites list.
Right now I am reading A Mercy by Morrison and I just finished Dark Bargain by Lawerance Goldstone. Goldstone's book is about the writing of the Constitution and what "bargains" were part of the deal. I really liked this book because he put all the actors of this drama on stage in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. It just so happen that I finished Annette Gordon-Reeds, The Hemingses of Monticello not long ago which gave another dimension to the Dark Bargain.
I also have Eduardo Galena's Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone. I saw an interview on C-SPAN. His interviewer compared his work to Garbriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of of Solitude.
the baldwin choice,'another country', is great, however note part of it takes place in france. thehistorical significance is notable as well. baldwin completed the work while staying in william styron's guest house in conn. from autumn of 1960 till summer of 1961. at the same time styron was crafting, 'confessions of nat turnner." the period cemented their relationship.it's a perfect point in history for black americans to revisit this proflic writer given the blue smoke and mirrors manny are being trated to.
"An Elegy for Easterly" was very, very good. I bought it simply because of the Coetzee quote regarding the author and was far from disappointed. On that matter, anything by Coetzee is worth reading...
"A free man of color" Great writing, set in 1830's New Orleans...This book and the rest of the series got me reading fiction again!
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver