Black Authors

Great reads by Black authors.

Updated January 14, 2025
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Out there screaming : an anthology of new Black horror
Peele, Jordan
Paper Book
The New York Times BestsellerJordan Peele, the visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us and Nope, curates this anthology of brand new stories of Black horror. Exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but also the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our world.'A glorious showcase...
Also available in eBook format.

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L'autre moitiĂŠ de soi
Bennett, Brit, author.
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo, winner...

Des jumelles inseparables choisissent de vivre dans deux mondes etrangers : celui des Blancs et celui des Noirs.

Aussi disponible en format numerique et large vision.

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Between the world and me
Coates, Ta-Nehisi.
Ebook
Winner, Kirkus Prize for Non-Fiction, 2015 In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one, written on flesh: it is the story of the black body, exploited to create the...
Also available in Audiobook, eBook, eAudiobook and Large Print formats.

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The vanishing half
Bennett, Brit
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo, winner...
Also available in eBook, eAudiobook and Large Print formats.

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La plus secrète mémoire des hommes : roman
Mbougar Sarr, Mohamed
Paper Book
THE GLOBAL LITERARY QUEST BESTSELLER 'A masterpiece' The Times 'The style as well as the sweep is Bolaño-esque' Observer Paris, 2018. Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer, discovers a legendary book titled The Labyrinth of...

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In the Upper Country: A Novel
Thomas, Kai
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD COSMOPOLITAN'S 10 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF 2023 'Fresh and propulsive . . . a veneration of those whose tales are...

Also available in eBook, eAudiobook and Large Print formats.

Canadian author.

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Une cole?re noire : lettre a? mon fils
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Ebook
Winner, Kirkus Prize for Non-Fiction, 2015 In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one, written on flesh: it is the story of the black body, exploited to create the...

« Voila ce qu'il faut que tu saches : en Amerique, la destruction du corps noir est une tradition, un heritage. Je ne voudrais pas que tu te couches dans un reve. Je voudrais que tu sois un citoyen de ce monde beau et terrible a la fois, un citoyen conscient. J'ai decide de ne rien te cacher. ». Dans cette lettre adressée a son fils de 15 ans, Ta-Nehisi Coates revient sur la condition de l'homme noir aux Etats-Unis. Une ode a l'humanite, un cri de colere contre ce mal qui gangrene la societe americaine depuis des siecles.

Aussi disponible en format numerique.

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The Most Secret Memory of Men: A Novel
Mbougar Sarr, Mohamed
Paper Book
THE GLOBAL LITERARY QUEST BESTSELLER 'A masterpiece' The Times 'The style as well as the sweep is Bolaño-esque' Observer Paris, 2018. Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer, discovers a legendary book titled The Labyrinth of...

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Queenie : a novel
Carty-Williams, Candice
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Brilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking' Jojo...

Also available in eBook and Audiobook formats.

Aussi disponible en format numerique.


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