The Black Experience in Fiction
Compiled and maintained by Barbara Perkins, Carla Morgan, and John Harvey. Last update: December 2002.
Please note: not all of the authors listed here are black authors. Many works are listed due to their historical or literary significance, such as To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, or the works of South African author Nadine Gordimer.
Click on the first letter of the author’s last name, or scroll down to browse. To check on the availability of a title, please go to our catalog page.
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| Chinua Achebe |
- Anthills of the Savannah
- Arrow of God
- A Man of the People
- Things Fall Apart
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| Ama Ata Aidoo |
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| Rochelle Alers |
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| Jeffery Renard Allen |
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| Robert L. Allen |
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| Robin Hampton Allen |
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| Raymond Andrews |
- Appalachee Red
- Baby Sweet’s
- Jessie and Jesus; and Cousin Claire
- Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee
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| Vicki L. Andrews |
- Lighter Shade of Brown
- Midnight Peril
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| Robert Antoni |
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| Tina McElroy Ansa |
- Baby of the Family
- The Hand I Fan With
- Ugly Ways
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| Michael Baisden |
- The Maintenance Man
- Men Cry in the Dark
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| Calvin Baker |
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| James Baldwin |
- Another Country
- Early Novels and Stories
- Giovanni’s Room
- Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Going to Meet the Man
- If Beale Street Could Talk (YA)
- Just Above My Head
- Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone
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| John Ball |
- Cop Cade
- Eyes of Buddha
- In the Heat of the Night
- Johnny Get Your Gun
- Police Chief
- Rescue Mission
- Then Came Violence
- The Van
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| Toni Cade Bambara |
- Gorilla, My Love
- The Sea Birds Are Still Alive
- The Salt Eaters
- Those Bones Are Not My Child
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| Imamu Amiri Baraka |
- The Fiction of Le Roi Jones
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| Steven Barnes |
- Blood Brothers
- Firedance
- Iron Shadows
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(with Larry Niven)
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- The Barsoom Project
- Beowulf’s Children
- The California Voodoo Game
- Dream Park
- The Legacy of Heorot
- Saturn’s Race
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| W.E. Barrett |
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| Paul Beatty |
- The White Boy Shuffle
- Tuff
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| Francis Bebey |
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| Madison Smartt Bell |
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| Bertrice Berry |
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| Charlene A. Berry |
- Cajun Heat
- Love’s Deception
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| Venise Berry |
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| Eleanor Taylor Bland |
- Slow Burn
- Gone Quiet
- Done Wrong
- See No Evil
- Keep Still
- Tell No Tales
- Scream in Silence
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| Elizabeth Atkins Bowman |
- White Chocolate
- Dark Chocolate
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| Dionne Brand |
- At the Full and Change of the Moon
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| Connie Briscoe |
- Big Girls Don’t Cry
- Sisters and Lovers
- A Long Way from Home
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| John Gregory Brown |
- The Wrecked, Blessed Body of Shelton LaFleur
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| Linda Beatrice Brown |
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| Rosellen Brown |
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| Linda McKeever Bullard |
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| Anita Richmond Bunkley |
- Balancing Act
- Black Gold
- Emily, the Yellow Rose
- Girlfriends
- Sisters
- Starlight Passage
- Wild Embers
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| Ron Burns |
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| LeVar Burton |
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| Octavia Butler |
- Adulthood Rites
- Clay’s Ark
- Dawn
- Imago
- Kindred (YA)
- Lilith’s Brood
- The Parable of the Sower
- The Parable of the Talents
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| Bebe Moore Campbell |
- Brothers and Sisters
- Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine
- Singing in the Comeback Choir
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| Viveca Carlysle |
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| Lorene Cary |
- The Price of a Child
- Pride
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| Colin Channer |
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| Barbara Chase-Riboud |
- Echo of Lions
- The President’s Daughter
- Sally Hemings
- Valide
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| Alice Childress |
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| Beverly Clark |
- A Love to Cherish
- Bound by Love
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| Pearl Cleage |
- What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
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| Michelle Cliff |
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| William Cobb |
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| Evelyn Coleman |
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| Thomas H.Cook |
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| Clarence Cooper |
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| J. California Cooper |
- Family
- The Future Has a Past
- Homemade Love
- In Search of Satisfaction
- The Matter Is Life
- A Piece of Mine
- Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime
- Some Soul to Keep
- The Wake of the Wind
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| Sheila Copeland |
- Chocolate Star
- Princess Sister
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| Joe Cottonwood |
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| Francine Craft |
- Lyrics of Love
- Star Crossed
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| Fred D’Aguiar |
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| David Dalton |
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| Edwidge Danticat |
- Breath, Eyes, Memory
- The Farming of Bones
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| Christopher Darden |
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| Janice Daugharty |
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| Thulani Davis |
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| Virginia DeBerry |
- Far from the Tree
- Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You Made
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| Claire de Duras |
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| Samuel R. Delany |
- Flight from Nevèrÿon
- Neveryóna
- Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
- Tales of Nevèrÿon
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| Nora DeLoach |
- Mama Stalks the Past
- Mama Rocks the Empty Cradle
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| Eric Jerome Dickey |
- Friends and Lovers
- Sister, Sister
- Milk in My Coffee
- Cheaters
- Liar’s Game
- Sweet St. Louis
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| E.L.Doctorow |
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| Rita Dove |
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| Sharon M. Draper |
- Forged by Fire (YA)
- Tears of a Tiger (YA)
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| Allen Drury |
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| Tananarive Due |
- The Black Rose
- My Soul to Keep
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| Henry Dumas |
- Goodbye Sweetwater
- Rope of Wind and Other Stories
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| Natalie Dunbar |
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| Grace F. Edwards |
- A Toast Before Dying
- If I Should Die
- No Time to Die
- Do or Die
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| Louis Edwards |
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| Ralph Ellison |
- Flying Home and Other Stories
- Invisible Man
- Juneteenth
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| Loren D. Estleman |
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| Percival L. Everett |
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| Ann Fairbairn |
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| Jessie Redmon Fauset |
- Comedy, American Style
- The Chinaberry Tree
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| Lolita Files |
- Scenes from a Sistah
- Getting to the Good Part
- Blind Ambitions
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| Sharon Flake |
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| Bette Ford |
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| Gwynne Forster |
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| Sharon Ewell Foster |
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| Albert French |
- Billy
- I Can’t Wait on God
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| Jack Fullen |
- The Best of Jackson Payne
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| Ernest Gaines |
- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Bloodline
- Catherine Carmier
- A Gathering of Old Men
- In My Father’s House
- A Lesson Before Dying
- Of Love and Dust
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| LaFlorya Gauthier |
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| Roberta Gayle |
- Something Old, Something New
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| Nelson George |
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Rebecca T.Godwin
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Marita Golden
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- And Do Remember Me
- The Edge of Heaven
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| Nadine Gordimer |
- My Son’s Story
- None to Accompany Me
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| Sandra Lee Gould |
- Faraday’s Popcorn Factory
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| Shirley Ann Grau |
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| Robert Greer |
- The Devil’s Red Nickel
- The Devil’s Hatband
- The Devil’s Backbone
- Limited Time
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Gay G. Gunn
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- Everlastin’ Love
- Pride and Joi
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Rosa Guy
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- And I Heard a Bird Sing (YA)
- Disappearance (YA)
- Edith Jackson (YA)
- Measure of Time
- A Mirror of Her Own (YA)
- Music of Summer (YA)
- My Love, My Love; or The Peasant Girl
- New Guys Around the Block (YA)
- Ruby (YA)
- The Sun, the Sea, a Touch of Wind
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Shirley Hailstock
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- Clara’s Promise
- Opposites Attract
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Alex Haley
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- A Different Kind of Christmas
- Queen
- Mama Flora’s Family
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Barbara Hambly
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- A Free Man of Color
- Fever Season
- Graveyard Dust
- Sold Down the River
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Virginia Hamilton
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- A Little Love (YA)
- Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (YA)
- A White Romance (YA)
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Gary Hardwick
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- Supreme Justice
- Cold Medina
- Double Deal
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E. Lynn Harris
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- And This Too Shall Pass
- If This World Were Mine
- Invisible Life
- Just As I Am
- Abide with Me
- Not a Day Goes By
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David Haynes
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- All American Dream Dolls
- Right by My Side (YA)
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Melinda Haynes
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Gar Anthony Haywood
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- Bad News Travels Fast
- Going Nowhere Fast
- It’s Not a Pretty Sight
- When Last Seen Alive
- You Can Die Trying
- All the Lucky Ones Are Dead
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Lorri Hewett
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Donna Hill
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- Scandalous
- Indiscretions
- Pieces of Dreams
- If I Could
- Quiet Storm
- Temptation
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Reginald Hill
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- Blood Sympathy
- Born Guilty
- Singing the Sadness
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Chester Himes
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Paul Hond
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William H. Hooks
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- A Flight of Dazzle Angels (YA)
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Langston Hughes
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- The Best of Simple
- The Return of Simple
- Not Without Laughter
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Marsha Hunt
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Nora Zeale Hurston
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- Novels and Stories
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Complete Stories
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Brian Jackson
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- The View from Here
- Walking Through Mirrors
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Sheneska Jackson
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- Blessings
- Caught Up in the Rapture
- Li’l Mama’s Rules
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Sandra Jackson-Opoku
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- The River Where Blood Is Born
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Yolonda Joe
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- He Say She Say
- Bebe’s By Golly Wow
- This Just In
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Charles Richard Johnson
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Guy Johnson
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- Standing at the Scratch Line
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Gayl Jones
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- Corregidora
- Eva’s Man
- The Healing
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Jackie Kay
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Barbara Keaton
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Elmer Kelton
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Jamaica Kincaid
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- Annie John (YA)
- At the Bottom of the River
- The Autobiography of My Mother
- Lucy
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Marcia King-Gamble
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Sandra Kitt
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- All Good Things
- The Color of Love
- Love Everlasting
- Significant Others
- Between Friends
- Family Affairs
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David Klass
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Andrew Klavan
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Jackie French Koller
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- A Place to Call Home (YA)
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Florence Ladd
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Jake Lamar
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- The Last Integrationist
- Close to the Bone
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Kathryn Lasky
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Kristin Hunter Lattany
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- The Lakestown Rebellion
- The Survivors
- Kinsfolks
- Do Unto Others
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Harper Lee
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Julius Lester
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- Do Lord Remember Me
- Othello (YA)
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Robert Lipsyte
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Benilde Little
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Richard A.Lupoff
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- The Bessie Blue Killer
- The Sepia Siren Killer
- The Cover Girl Killer
- The Silver Chariot Killer
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Mary Lyons
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