To Get You Started
- Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
eBook for Harper Lee's sequel to beloved 1960 classic To Kill a Mockingbird.
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by ISBN: 9780062048745Publication Date: 2010-10-05Tom Franklin's narrative power and flair for characterization have been compared to the likes of Harper Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy.
Now the Edgar Award-winning author returns with his most accomplished and resonant novel so far—an atmospheric drama set in rural Mississippi.
- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Available as an digital audio book through the Sarasota County Public Library Overdrive.
Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.
The Hate U Give by ISBN: 9780062498533Publication Date: 2017-02-28If title not available through SCF Library online be sure and check your local public library.
After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
- On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
On the Come Up is Angie Thomas’s homage to hip-hop, the art that sparked her passion for storytelling and continues to inspire her to this day. It is the story of fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you; of the struggle to become who you are and not who everyone expects you to be; and of the desperate realities of poor and working-class black families. - Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
A collection of short stories explore what it is like to be young and black, centering on the experiences of black teenagers and emphasizing that one person's experiences, reality, and personal identity are different than someone else.
All American Boys by ISBN: 9781481463355Publication Date: 2015-09-29Available as a digital audio book.
In an unforgettable new novel two teens--one black, one white--grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension.
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.
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