African Americans -- Fiction books

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel is a work of political and didactic fiction that foregrounds slavery as its…

The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills

John Trotwood Moore

The Bishop of Cottontown is a Southern‑set novel that weaves together the lives of cotton‑mill workers,…

A Black Adonis

Linn Boyd Porter

A Black Adonis is a turn‑of‑the‑century work of African‑American fiction that opens with a reflective, almost…

Lady Luck

Hugh Wiley

The novel opens in a bustling Memphis train station, where the narrator, a street‑wise figure who calls…

Cane

Jean Toomer

Cane is a modernist work that blends poetry, short story, and drama to portray the lives of African‑American…

The Conjure Woman

Charles W. Chesnutt

The work is a Southern‑state narrative that blends domestic travel with a folk‑tale about a haunted vineyard.

Peculiar: A Tale of the Great Transition

Epes Sargent

The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel

W. E. B. Du Bois

The Marrow of Tradition

Charles W. Chesnutt

Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter

F. Colburn Adams

Black no more: Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940

George S. Schuyler

The House Behind the Cedars

Charles W. Chesnutt

Manuel Pereira; Or, The Sovereign Rule of South Carolina

F. Colburn Adams

The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays

Charles W. Chesnutt

Samantha Among the Colored Folks: "My Ideas on the Race Problem"

Marietta Holley

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' Edition

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fire!!: A quarterly devoted to the younger Negro artists, Volume 1, Number 1

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue A Tale of the Mississippi and the South-west

Oliver Optic

The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races

Oscar Micheaux

E. K. Means Is This a Title? It Is Not. It Is the Name of a Writer of Negro Stories, Who Has Made Himself So Completely the Writer of Negro Stories That His Book Needs No Title

E. K. Means

La case de l'oncle Tom; ou, vie des nègres en Amérique

Harriet Beecher Stowe