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A list of black authored books our staff picked for Staff Picks this year: Black Authored Staff Picks Browse All See all items The Nickel Boys: A Novel Colson Whitehead Current price: $16.00 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida ... The Sellout: A Novel Paul Beatty Current price: $17.00 Winner of the 2016 Man Booker PrizeWinner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction ... Golden Child: A Novel Claire Adam Current price: $17.00 A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and love ... Behold the Dreamers: A Novel Imbolo Mbue Current price: $18.00 A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy ... Friday Black Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Current price: $18.99 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice.”—New York Times Book Review ... Discounted An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Tayari Jones Previous price: $18.99 Current price: $16.99 A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR * TIME * BUSTLE * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * AMAZON.COM ... Discounted Homegoing Yaa Gyasi Previous price: $18.00 Current price: $16.95 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE • WINNER OF THE PEN / HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION • Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. ... The Mothers: A Novel Brit Bennett Current price: $17.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught.” –The New York Times Book Review ... Queenie Candice Carty-Williams Current price: $16.00 *SOON TO BE A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES* *ONE of NPR’s and TIME’s BEST BOOKS of the YEAR * NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of the YEAR by WOMAN’S DAY, NEWSDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BUSTLE, and BOOK RIOT!* ... My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel Oyinkan Braithwaite Current price: $17.00 ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • “A taut and darkly funny contemporary noir that moves at lightning speed, it’s the wittiest and most fun murder party you’ve ever been invited to.” ... Saving Ruby King Catherine Adel West Current price: $27.99 Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by Ms. Magazine, USA Today Book Riot, The Rumpus, Library Journal, PureWow, The Every Girl, Parade and more. ... Staff Pick Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Vintage International) Toni Morrison Current price: $17.00 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. ... The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) Brit Bennett Current price: $27.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ... Staff Pick The Death of Vivek Oji: A Novel Akwaeke Emezi Current price: $27.00 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ... Staff Pick Pet Akwaeke Emezi Current price: $11.99 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME ... All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto George M. Johnson Current price: $18.99 In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. A New York Times Bestseller! ...
The Nickel Boys: A Novel Colson Whitehead Current price: $16.00 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida ...
The Sellout: A Novel Paul Beatty Current price: $17.00 Winner of the 2016 Man Booker PrizeWinner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction ...
Golden Child: A Novel Claire Adam Current price: $17.00 A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and love ...
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel Imbolo Mbue Current price: $18.00 A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy ...
Friday Black Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Current price: $18.99 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice.”—New York Times Book Review ...
Discounted An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Tayari Jones Previous price: $18.99 Current price: $16.99 A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR * TIME * BUSTLE * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * AMAZON.COM ...
Discounted Homegoing Yaa Gyasi Previous price: $18.00 Current price: $16.95 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE • WINNER OF THE PEN / HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION • Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. ...
The Mothers: A Novel Brit Bennett Current price: $17.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught.” –The New York Times Book Review ...
Queenie Candice Carty-Williams Current price: $16.00 *SOON TO BE A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES* *ONE of NPR’s and TIME’s BEST BOOKS of the YEAR * NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of the YEAR by WOMAN’S DAY, NEWSDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BUSTLE, and BOOK RIOT!* ...
My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel Oyinkan Braithwaite Current price: $17.00 ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • “A taut and darkly funny contemporary noir that moves at lightning speed, it’s the wittiest and most fun murder party you’ve ever been invited to.” ...
Saving Ruby King Catherine Adel West Current price: $27.99 Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by Ms. Magazine, USA Today Book Riot, The Rumpus, Library Journal, PureWow, The Every Girl, Parade and more. ...
Staff Pick Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Vintage International) Toni Morrison Current price: $17.00 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. ...
The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) Brit Bennett Current price: $27.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ...
Staff Pick The Death of Vivek Oji: A Novel Akwaeke Emezi Current price: $27.00 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ...
Staff Pick Pet Akwaeke Emezi Current price: $11.99 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME ...
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto George M. Johnson Current price: $18.99 In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. A New York Times Bestseller! ...