Novels and Stories

8 best books like Novels and Stories (Zora Neale Hurston): Weetzie Bat, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence, Wonder Woman, Volume 1: Blood, Linden Hills, Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays, The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, Notes from a Young Black Chef, The Warmest December

Weetzie Bat

Author	Francesca Lia Block
ISBN	0060736259

In 1989 Francesca Lia Block made a dazzling entrance into the literary scene with what would become one of the most talked-about books of the decade; Weetzie Bat. This poetic roller coaster swoop has a sleek new design to match its new sister and brother books, Goat Girls and Beautiful Boys. Rediscover...

What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

Author	Michele Filgate
ISBN	1982107340

*Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, The Week, and Elle.com*

Fifteen brilliant writers explore what we don’t talk to our mothers about, and how it affects us, for better or for worse.

As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started...

Wonder Woman, Volume 1: Blood

Author	Brian Azzarello
ISBN	1401235638

Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, has kept a secret from her daughter all her life – and when Wonder Woman learns who her father is, her life will shatter like brittle clay. The only one more shocked than Diana by this revelation? Bloodthirsty Hera – so why is her sinister daughter, Strife, so eager...

Linden Hills

Author	Gloria Naylor
ISBN	0140088296

A world away from Brewster Place, yet intimately connected to it, lies Linden Hills. With its showcase homes, elegant lawns, and other trappings of wealth, Linden Hills is not unlike other affluent black communities. But residence in this community is indisputable evidence of "making it." Although...

Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays

Author	James Baldwin
ISBN	1883011523

Though one of the giants of 20th-century American letters he's often been marginalized, relegated to the ghetto of writers about race. This perception of Baldwin solely as a black writer--and thus one whose interest lies primarily in the sociological or the documentary--undercuts the real importance...

The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader

Author	David Levering Lewis
ISBN	0140170367

What is a Renaissance? What makes up a Renaissance and how is it sustained? Is it artists, musicians, inventors, and other gifted people all thinking the same way and moving the same way? Or is it similar ideas expressed in different ways? The common goal that African-American people came together and...

Notes from a Young Black Chef

Author	Kwame Onwuachi
ISBN	1524732621

A groundbreaking memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, from the Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 honoree

By the time he was twenty-seven, Kwame Onwuachi had competed on Top Chef, cooked at the White House, and opened and closed one of the most talked about restaurants...

The Warmest December

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...