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VPL - Black Excellence Day

To celebrate Black Excellence Day, VPL has put together a list of phenomenal Black writers. We are all fortunate to access these works and hold their truths in our hands and minds. Spanning genres and generations, these books exemplify excellence. For more information on Black Excellence Day 2023, visit https://blackexcellenceday.ca/. Get started with these titles carefully selected by the reading specialists at Vancouver Public Library. If you would like a personalized reading list, please use the Books Just for You service at https://www.vpl.ca/readnext.

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  • Science fiction; time travel, California, slave holders.
    Book, 1988Boston : Beacon Press, 1988, c1979.
  • Bildungsroman; family chronicle, Michigan, folklore, myth.
    Book, 1977New York : Knopf, 1977.
  • Nonfiction; African American women, sexism, feminism.
    Book, 2015New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
  • Historical fiction; Harlem, children of clergy, identity, culture conflict.
    Book, 2013New York : Vintage International, Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC 2013.
  • Historical fiction; reformatories, civil rights, Florida, boys and teenagers.
    Book, 2019New York : Doubleday, [2019]
  • Autobiography; political activism, prison abolition movement, political philosophy.
    Book, 2021Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books , 2021.
  • Autobiography; childhood, entertainers, 20th century.
    Book, 1970New York, Random House [1970, c1969]
  • Epic fantasy fiction; shape shifting, mercenary troops, monsters.
    Book, 2019[Toronto] : Bond Street Books, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, [2019]
  • Psychological fiction; women journalists, Jamaicans in London, online dating.
    Book, 2019New York : Scout Press, 2019.
  • Personal history; Baltimore, Howard University, history of race.
    Book, 2015New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015]
  • Autobiography; race and queerness, poets, power and vulnerability.
    Book, 2019New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019.
  • Domestic fiction; Hurricane Katrina, the rural poor, brothers and sisters.
    Book, 2011New York : Bloomsbury, 2011.
  • Psychological fiction; identity, Nigeria, metaphysics of mental illness.
    Book, 2018New York : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2018.
  • Fiction; babysitters, bloggers, race relations, Philadelphia.
    Book, 2019New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2019]
  • Magic realist fiction; family secrets, mothers and daughters, jealousy, best friends, imaginary places.
    Book, 2019[Toronto] : Hamish Hamilton, 2019.
  • Historical fiction; family chronicles, Ghana, slavery, sisters.
    Book, 2016[Toronto] : Bond Street Books, a division of Penguin Random House Limited, [2016]
  • Poetry; feminism, lesbianism, African American women.
    Book, 2020[New York] : Penguin Books, 2020.