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By Howard Rambsy II<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1936: Black Thunder<\/em> by Arna Bontemps
1966: Jubilee <\/em>by Margaret Walker
1971: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman<\/em> by Ernest Gaines
1976: Flight to Canada<\/em> by Ishmael Reed
1976: Roots: The Saga of an American Family<\/em> by Alex Haley
1979: Sally Hemings<\/em> by Barbara Chase-Riboud
1979: Kindred <\/em>by Octavia Butler
1980: Wild Seed<\/em> by Octavia butler
1981: The Chaneysville Incident<\/em> by David Bradley
1982: Oxherding Tale<\/em> by Charles Johnson
1986: Dessa Rose<\/em> by Sherley Anne Williams
1987: Beloved <\/em>by Toni Morrison
1989: Echo of Lions<\/em> by Barbara Chase-Riboud
1990: Middle Passage<\/em> by Charles Johnson
1991: Family <\/em>by J. California Cooper
1991: The Gilda Stories<\/em> by Jewelle Gomez
1994: Fragments of the Ar<\/em>k by Louise Meriwether
1994: In Search of Sale Factor<\/em> by J. California Cooper
1994: The President’s Daughter<\/em> by Barbara Chase-Riboud
1995: The Longest Memory<\/em> by Fred D’Aguiar
1995: The Price of a Child<\/em> by Lorene Cary
1997: Feeding the Ghosts<\/em> by Fred D’Aguiar
1998: The Wake of the Wind<\/em> by J. California Cooper
2001: Cane River <\/em>by Lalita Tademy
2001: The Wind Done Gone<\/em> by Alice Randall
2003: The Known World<\/em> by Edward P. Jones
2006: Unburnable <\/em>by Marie-Elena John
2007: The Book of Negroes<\/em> (Someone Knows My Name<\/em>) by Lawrence Hill
2008: A Mercy<\/em> by Toni Morrison
2009: The Book of Night Women<\/em> by Marlon James
2012: Freeman<\/em> by Leonard Pitts, Jr.
2013: The Good Lord Bird<\/em> by James McBride
2014: The Coming<\/em> by Daniel Black
2014: Song of the Shank<\/em> by Jeffery Renard Allen
2016: The Underground Railroad<\/em> by Colson Whitehead
2016: Homegoing <\/em>by Yaa Gyasi
2018: Washington Black<\/em> by Esi Edugyan
2019: The Water Dancer<\/em> by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2020: Cane Warriors<\/em> by Alex Wheatle
2021: The Prophets<\/em> by Robert Jones, Jr.
2022: Yonder <\/em>by Jabari Asim
2023: Let Us Descend<\/em> by Jesmyn Ward
2024: James <\/em>by Percival Everett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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