By Howard Rambsy II Fiction 1990: Devil in a Blue Dress 1991: A Red Death 1992: White Butterfly 1994: Black Betty 1995: RL’s Dream 1996: A Little Yellow Dog 1997: Gone Fishin’ 1998: Blue Light 1999: Walkin’ the Dog 2001: Fearless Jones 2002: Bad Boy Brawly Brown 2003: Fear Itself 2004: Little Scarlet 2004: The … A Checklist of Walter Mosley’s books
By Howard Rambsy II 1919: The Conquest (1913) by Oscar Micheaux1951: Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright1970: Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965) by Chester Himes1974: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971) by Ernest Gaines1977: Roots by (1976) by Alex Haley1977: Black Samurai (1974) by Marc Olden1985: The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker1986: Native … 25 Novels Adapted to films and miniseries
Novels1999: The Intuitionist2001: John Henry Days2006: Apex Hides the Hurt2009: Sag Harbor2011: Zone One2016: The Underground Railroad2019: The Nickel Boys2021: Harlem Shuffle Nonfiction2003: The Colossus of New York: A City in 13 Parts2014: The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death Essays2001: “The Image”2001: “Lost and Found”2001: “I Worked at an Ill-Conceived Internet Start-Up and … A Checklist of Colson Whitehead’s works
By Howard Rambsy II Novels and short fiction1970: The Bluesy Eye1973: Sula1977: Song of Solomon1981: Tar Baby1983: “Recitatif” (short story)1987: Beloved1992: Jazz1997: Paradise2003: Love2008: A Mercy2012: Home2015: “Sweetness”2015: God Help the Child Nonfiction1992: Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination2008: What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction (edited by Carolyn C. Denard)2017: The … A Checklist of Toni Morrison’s works
By Howard Rambsy II 1936: Black Thunder by Arna Bontemps1966: Jubilee by Margaret Walker1971: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines1976: Flight to Canada by Ishmael Reed1976: Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley1979: Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Riboud1979: Kindred by Octavia Butler1980: Wild Seed by Octavia butler1981: The Chaneysville … A Checklist of Neo-Slave Narratives
By Howard Rambsy II Novels1973: Narc (Narc series as Robert Hawke)1974: Death of a Courier (Narc series as Robert Hawke)1974: Death List (Narc series as Robert Hawke)1974: The Delgado Killings (Narc series as Robert Hawke)1974: Kill the Dragon (Narc series as Robert Hawke)1974: Black Samurai (Black Samurai series)1974: The Golden Kill (Black Samurai series)1974: Killer … A Checklist of Marc Olden’s books
By Howard Rambsy II 1976: Patternmaster1977: Mind of My Mind1978: Survivor 1979: Kindred1980: Wild Seed1984: Clay’s Ark1987: Dawn1988: Adulthood Rites1989: Imago1989: Xenogenesis (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago)1993: Parable of the Sower1995: Bloodchild and Other Stories 1998: Parable of the Talents2000: Lilith’s Brood (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago)2005: Fledgling 2007: Seed to Harvest (Wild Seed, Mind … A Checklist of Octavia Butler’s books
By Howard Rambsy II 1953: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952) – National Book Award for Fiction1978: James Alan McPherson’s Elbow Room* (1977) – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1983: Alice Walker’s The Color Purple (1982) – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1983: Alice Walker’s The Color Purple (1982) – National Book Award for Fiction1988: Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) – … Award-winning fiction
By Howard Rambsy II Lists seem simple enough, right? They still have a long history in the study of African American literature and book in general. We are indebted to early collectors, bibliographers, librarians, list-makers such as Daniel Murray, Arthur Schomburg, Dorothy Porter, and countless others. Their catalogues and checklists were instrumental in shaping fields … Lists