I need some recommendations asap!
Great African American recommendations?
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 Purplelilac82 |
Great African American recommendations? |
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Posts: 6036 (07/19/2008 12:42 PM) |
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 butterflysnest |
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Posts: 132 (07/19/2008 1:09 PM) |
I like the books by J.J. Murray. They from the prospective of black females, mostly. They're kind of romantically based, too. The first one I read was
I'm your Girl.
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Purplelilac82 |
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Posts: 6040 (07/19/2008 1:29 PM) |
Thanks!
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mEEEEchelle |
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Posts: 2614 (07/20/2008 1:48 AM) |
I loved the Coldest Winter Ever, Love Frustration, The Fly Girl series and anything by E. Lynn Harris. Eric Jerome Dickey has some good ones, but he also has
some not so good ones. And if you like more erotic fiction I highly recommend Zane.
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imnotsayingitright |
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Posts: 23805 (07/20/2008 12:40 PM) |
I've never read it, but I've heard good things about What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day. And looking it up, I just realized that it was one of
Oprah's books, but that's not where I got the idea, lol.
http://www.amazon.com/What-Looks-Crazy-Ordinary-Oprahs/dp/038079487X/ref=dp_return_2?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books |
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barefootpixie |
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Posts: 250 (07/20/2008 12:53 PM) |
May not be what you're looking for, but I enjoyed Quicksand by Nella Larsen and Home to Harlem by Claude McKay. My favorite professor is a teeeeeeeeeny
little white woman who's so hardcore passionate about African American lit that she really influenced my taste as well.
She used to tell us funny stories about going to lit conferences and people would approach her and tell her that the British women's lit conference was in a different room, and she'd be like "no, I'm here for the African American lit conference" and people would be like "uh, wtf?" 
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Jloveandjlo |
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Posts: 3758 (07/20/2008 7:39 PM) |
True To The Game I, II and III
All of Michael Baisden's books (read Never Satisfied Last) THE COLDEST WINTER EVER! |
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kirkangel00 |
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Posts: 1021 (07/25/2008 9:02 PM) |
Mary Monroe:
God Don't Like Ugly, God Still Don't Like Ugly, The Upper Room, In Sheep's Clothing, Red Light Wives Omar Tyree: Flyy Girl Blair Underwood: Casanegra |
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lilnsyncmami |
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Posts: 4060 (08/02/2008 1:28 AM) |
I keep hearing that If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin is good. I haven't read it yet.
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shedevil185 |
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Posts: 854 (08/04/2008 7:44 PM) |
Read and loved these!
      
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raratwentyfour |
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Posts: 227 (08/04/2008 11:38 PM) |
Some old school options:
The Color Purple by Alice Walker 
Zora Neale Thurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God 
And, Maya Angelou's poetry |
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mEEEEchelle |
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Posts: 2750 (08/06/2008 4:48 AM) |
I second The Color of Water. And Song Yet Sung is also a great book by that author.
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harmnybunny |
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Posts: 13593 (08/31/2008 12:51 PM) |
Does Uncle Tom's Cabin count?
 The great American abolitionist novel... I'm reading it right now, a little melodramatic for my tastes but really
good.
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luvmintz31 |
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Posts: 1492 (09/03/2008 9:00 PM) |
The Color of Water
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Staargirly |
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Posts: 48 (11/24/2008 9:36 PM) |
Reading this now, Better Than I Know Myself by Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant. Pretty good so far.
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