Linden Hills
10 best books like Linden Hills (Gloria Naylor): Paradise, Possessing the Secret of Joy, In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women, Middle Passage, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, Rainbow Boys, The Street, Jubilee, Disappearing Acts
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 0452280397 |
"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary work from a storyteller. Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paradise opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black...
| Author | Alice Walker |
| ISBN | 0671789457 |
Possessing the Secret of Joy is the story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life in North America. As a young woman, a misguided loyalty to the customs of her people led her to voluntarily submit to the tsunga's knife and be genitally mutilated (pharoanoically circumcised)....
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
| Author | Alice Walker |
| ISBN | 0156028638 |
The stories are fantastic, almost too much so. Each story plunges you into a fully realized world of characters and circumstances, the kind of world that could propel an entire novel. And Walker is so good at making these character breathe for us, so good at making their concerns and lives vital to the...
| Author | Charles R. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0684855887 |
It is 1830. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible rogue, is desperate to escape unscrupulous bill collectors and an impending marriage to a priggish schoolteacher. He jumps aboard the first boat leaving New Orleans, the Republic, a slave ship en route to collect members of a legendary...
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
| Author | Alice Walker |
| ISBN | 0156028646 |
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear...
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
| Author | Glory Edim |
| ISBN | 0525619771 |
An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature.
Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That...
| Author | Alex Sanchez |
| ISBN | 0689857705 |
Jason Carrillo is a jock with a steady girlfriend, but he can't stop dreaming about sex...with other guys. Kyle Meeks doesn't look gay, but he is. And he hopes he never has to tell anyone -- especially his parents. Nelson Glassman is "out" to the entire world, but he can't tell the boy he loves that he wants...
| Author | Ann Petry |
| ISBN | 0395901499 |
The Street tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. Originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork, The Street was...
| Author | Margaret Walker |
| ISBN | 0395924952 |
A 50th anniversary edition of Margaret Walker's best-selling classic with a foreword by Nikki Giovanni
Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and one of his black slaves. Vyry bears witness to the South’s antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its...
| Author | Terry McMillan |
| ISBN | 0451209133 |
He was tall, dark as bittersweet chocolate, and impossibly gorgeous, with a woman-melting smile. She was pretty and independent, petite and not too skinny, just his type. Franklin Swift was a sometimes-employed construction worker, and a not-quite-divorced daddy of two. Zora Banks was a teacher,...
| Author | Bernice L. McFadden |
| ISBN | 0452282918 |
Buoyed by the lyrical, redemptive voice that distinguished McFadden's acclaimed debut novel, this new book tells the powerful, deeply moving story of one family and the alcoholism and abuse that marked their lives forever. Moving fluidly between the past and the present - between a young girl choosing...
