Black Voices & Culture - adults

Updated July 2, 2026
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An American marriage : a novel
Jones, Tayari
Paper Book
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION One of the most anticipated novels of 2018 according to Entertainment Weekly * Goodreads * Esquire * Elle * Cosmopolitan *BBC * Huffington Post * Bustle * Southern Living *...

Adult Fiction

Bluebird, bluebird : a novel
Locke, Attica
Paper Book
A thrilling novel about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire. "In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it." --Ann Patchett ...

Adult Fiction

Harlem shuffle : a novel
Whitehead, Colson
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST FOR FICTION * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR FICTION * NAACP IMAGE AWARD FINALIST FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK--FICTION From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, a gloriously...

Adult Fiction

The underground railroad : a novel
Whitehead, Colson
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. One of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of...

Adult Fiction

The vanishing half
Bennett, Brit
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * NPR * PEOPLE * TIME MAGAZINE * VANITY FAIR * GLAMOUR * BARACK OBAMA New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century...

Adult Fiction

The wedding
West, Dorothy
Paper Book
In her final novel, "a beautiful and devastating examination of family, society and race" (The New York Times), Dorothy West offers an intimate glimpse into the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's Black bourgeoisie on Martha's Vineyard...

Adult Fiction


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