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Fiction and Short Stories

Fiction, short fiction

Albert, Richard N. ed. From blues to bop: a collection of jazz fiction. New York, 1990.

Andrews, William, L ed. Classic fiction of the Harlem Renaissance. New York, 1994.

Armstrong, Richard. Sounder. New York, 1972. (Young adult)

Baker, Dorothy. Young man with a horn. New York, 1938.

Baldwin, James. Another country. New York, 1988.

Ellison, Ralph. The Invisible man. New York, 1980.

Fox, Paula. The Slave Dancer. New York, 1988 (Young adult)

Hesse, Karen. Letters from Rifka. New York, 1992. (Young adult)

Holmes, John Clellon. The Horn. New York, 1988.

Hughes, Langston. Not without laughter. Toronto, 1969.

Hill, Lawrence. Any known blood. 1997, Toronto.

Knopf, Marcy ed. The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance stories by women. .New Brunswick, 1993.

Kozhina, Elena Fedorovna. Through the burning steppe: a memoir of wartime Russia, 1942-1943. New York, 2000.

Lasky, Katheryn. True north: a novel of the Underground Railway. (Young adult)

Lyons, Mary. Letters from a slave girl: the story of Harriet Jacobs. New York, 1992. (Young Adult)

Matas, Carol. Sworn enemies. Toronto, 1993. (Young adult)

Myers, Walt Dean. Monster. New York, 1999. (Young adult)

Myers, Walt Dean. 145 street. New York, 2000. (Young adult)

Paulsen, Gary. Nightjohn. New York, 1993 (Young adult)

Paulsen, Gary. Sarny: a life remembered. New York, 1997. (Young adult)

Schmucker, Barbara. Runaway to Freedom: a story of the Underground Railway. New York, 1977. (Young Adult)

Toomer, Jane. Cane. London, 1975.

Walker, Alice. The color purple.. Toronto, 1982.

Woodson, Marian. If you come softly. New York, 1998. (Young adult)

Wright, Richard. Black Boy. New York, 1993.

Wright, Richard. Native Son. New York, 1998.

Wright, Richard. Rite of passage. New York, 1994.

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