African American Historical Fiction

A Long Way From Home by Connie Briscoe (1999), HIS Briscoe

Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell (1992), FIC Campbell

The President’s Daughter by Barbara Chase-Riboud (1994), FIC Chase-Riboud

The House Behind the Cedars by Charles Chesnutt (2000), FIC Chesnutt

Stand the Storm by Breena Clarke (2008), HIS Clarke

The Bondwoman’s Narrative by Hannah Crafts (2002), HIS Crafts

Gabriel’s Story by David Anthony Durham (2001), HIS Durham

There is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden by Leon Forrest (2001), FIC Forrest

Abraham’s Well by Sharon Ewell Foster (2006), HIS Foster

Billy by Albert French (1993), FIC French

The Legend of Quito Road by Dwight Fryer (2006), FIC Fryer

The Knees of Gullah Island by Dwight Fryer (2008), FIC Fryer

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines (1971), FIC Gaines

Angel of Harlem: A Novel Based on the Life of Dr. Mary Chinn by Kuwanna Haulsey (2004), FIC Haulsey

Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill (2007), HIS Hill

Middle Passage by Charles Richard Johnson (1991), HIS Johnson

The Air Between Us by Deborah Johnson (2008), HIS Johnson

Gloryland by Shelton Johnson (2009), HIS Johnson

The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2003), HIS Jones

Do Lord Remember Me by Julius Lester (1984), FIC Lester

Cold Running Creek by Zelda Lockhart (2007), HIS Lockhart

Song Yet Sung by James McBride (2008), HIS McBride

Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987), FIC Morrison

A Mercy by Toni Morrison (2008), FIC Morrision

Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas (2005), FIC Nicholas

Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (2010), HIS Perkins

Never Too Late by Michael Phillips (2007), HIS Phillips

Flight to Canada by Ishmael Reed (1998), FIC Reed

The Ghost of Emmett Till: Based on Real Life Events by W. James Richardson (2005), FIC Richardson

Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange (1995), FIC Shange

Red River by Lalita Tademy (2007), HIS Tademy

John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead (2001), HIS Whitehead

Dessa Rose by Sherley Anne Williams (1999), HIS Williams