Springfield-Greene County Library District
Springfield, Missouri
BOOKLISTS
 

African American Fiction

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72 Hour Hold: A Novel
by Bebe Moore Campbell
Fed up with the mental health community and desperate to save her daughter, who is suffering from bipolar disorder, Keri enlists the assistance of the Program, an illegal group of radicals who have rejected the established psychiatric system.
A Love of My Own
by E. Lynn Harris
As a band of close-knit characters (old and new) navigates life's challenges and tries to find their place in the world, each person goes on a journey of the heart in search of the one thing everyone wants: a love of their own.
Babylon Sisters: A Novel
by Pearl Cleage
Enjoying a close relationship with her daughter, Phoebe, Catherine Sanderson has kept only one secret--the identity of Phoebe's father--until Phoebe embarks on her own search for her paternity, bringing her real father back into their lives.
Boss Lady
by Omar Tyree
Hollywood celebrity Tracy Ellison's personal assistant and cousin, Vanessa, oversees the trials and tribulations of a film production about Tracy's life.
Genevieve
by Eric Jerome Dickey
Drawn into an affair with his sister-in-law in spite of his love for his wife, a man finds his choices further complicated by the mysterious and tragic past shared by both women.
Gimme an O!
by Kayla Perrin
Despite her success in her chosen field, sex therapist Lecia Calhoun cannot get her own love life together, until she meets Anthony Beals, the NFL's hottest quarterback, who blames Lecia for ruining his own romantic relationship.
How Stella Got Her Grove Back
by Terry McMillan
Presents a humorous novel about a woman who unexpectedly finds love but who just might be losing her mind.
Riding Through Shadows
by Sharon Ewell Foster
Follows Shirly Ferris as she grows up in the tumultuous 1960s, witnessing her mother's instability and the death of her father in Vietnam, through the 1980s, when Shirley raises her own children as a single mother.
Some People, Some Other Place
by J. California Cooper
A multigenerational saga chronicles the intertwined lives of the multi-ethnic residents of Dream Street in a town called Place, following one family from the Deep South of 1895, to rural Oklahoma and the industrial Midwest.
The Good House
by Tananarive Due
Working to rebuild her law practice after her son commits suicide, Angela Toussaint journeys to the family home where the suicide took place, hoping for answers, and discovers an evil force that is driving locals to acts of violence.