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10 best books like Long Division (Kiese Laymon): Men We Reaped, Heads of the Colored People, Salvage the Bones, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, The Water Dancer, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, Lord of Misrule, Pym, Friday Black, The White Card: A Play

Men We Reaped
AuthorJesmyn Ward
'...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came to get the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.' Harriet Tubman

In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men in her life, to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in...
Heads of the Colored People
AuthorNafissa Thompson-Spires
ISBN1501167995
Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era.

A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity...
Salvage the Bones
AuthorJesmyn Ward
ISBN1608195228
Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction

A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers...
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
AuthorDanielle Evans
ISBN1594487693
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self offers a bold new perspective on the experience of being young and African-American or mixed-race in modern-day America. In each of her stories, Danielle Evans explores the non-white American experience with honesty, wisdom, and humor. They are striking in...
The Water Dancer
AuthorTa-Nehisi Coates
ISBN0399590595
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme:...
A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
AuthorVictor LaValle
ISBN0525508805
What if America's founding ideals finally became reality? A future of peace, justice, and love comes to life in original speculative stories that challenge oppression and embrace inclusiveness--from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, and more.

For many Americans, imagining a bright...
Lord of Misrule
AuthorJaimy Gordon
ISBN0929701836
A brilliant novel that captures the dusty, dark, and beautiful world of small-time horse racing, where trainers, jockeys, grooms and grifters vie for what little luck is offered at a run-down West Virginia track .

Tommy Hansel has a plan: run four horses, all better than they look on paper,...
Pym
AuthorMat Johnson
ISBN0812981588
Recently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes has just made a startling discovery: the manuscript of a crude slave narrative that confirms the reality of Edgar Allan Poe’s strange and only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Determined to seek out Tsalal, the...
Friday Black
AuthorNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
ISBN1328911241
In the stories of Adjei-Brenyah’s debut, an amusement park lets players enter augmented reality to hunt terrorists or shoot intruders played by minority actors, a school shooting results in both the victim and gunman stuck in a shared purgatory, and an author sells his soul to a many-tongued god.

Adjei-Brenyah's...
The White Card: A Play
AuthorClaudia Rankine
ISBN1555978398
A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of Citizen

The White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters' disagreements,...
The Sojourn
AuthorAndrew Krivak
ISBN1934137340
The Sojourn is the story of Jozef Vinich, who was uprooted from a 19th-century mining town in Colorado by a family tragedy and returns with his father to an impoverished shepherd’s life in rural Austria-Hungary. When World War One comes, Jozef joins his adopted brother as a sharpshooter in the Kaiser’s...
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
AuthorDamon Young
ISBN0062898221
From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be Black (and male) in America.

For Damon Young, existing while...
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