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2023 (Fiction)
Demon Copperhead:
Click to search this book in our catalog   Barbara Kingsolver

Publishers Weekly The family of West Texas born-and-raised Cassidy Drake, who’s 13 and reads as white, ...More

2023 (Nonfiction)
His Name Is George Floyd (Pulitzer Prize Winner): One Mans Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Click to search this book in our catalog   Robert Samuels

Book list We saw him die. We say his name. Yet how well do we know George Floyd, whose death in Minneapolis p...More

2023 (Biography)
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Click to search this book in our catalog   Beverly Gage

Book list Jack, June, Quint, Dirk, and Rover are back for another post-monster apocalypse adventure. With Bla...More

 
2022 (Fiction)
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
 Joshua Cohen

Publishers Weekly Cohen’s stinging comedy (after the collection Attention) explores Jewish identity and...More

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2022 (Nonfiction)
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City
 Andrea Elliott

Publishers Weekly “A child’s homelessness is hidden,” writes New York Times investigative r...More

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2022 (Biography)
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artists Memoir of the Jim Crow South
 Winfred Rembert

Book list This is a book like no other, from Winfred Rembert’s unique and uniquely powerful autobiograp...More

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2021 (Fiction)
The Night Watchman:
Click to search this book in our catalog   Louise Erdrich

Kirkus In this unhurried, kaleidoscopic story, the efforts of Native Americans to save their lands from being...More

2021 (Nonfiction)
Wilmingtons Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
Click to search this book in our catalog   David Zucchino

Library Journal In the late 1890s, Wilmington, NC, was a successful mixed-race community with a strong Africa...More

2021 (Biography)
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Click to search this book in our catalog   Les Payne

Kirkus Comprehensive, timely life of the renowned activist and his circuitous rise to prominence.Pulitzer Pri...More

 
2020 (Fiction)
The Nickel Boys
 Colson Whitehead

Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More

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2020 (Nonfiction)
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
 Greg Grandin

Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More

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2020 (Biography)
Sontag: Her Life and Work
 Benjamin Moser

Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More

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2019
The Overstory
Click to search this book in our catalog   Richard Powers

Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More

2019
Amity and Prosperity
Click to search this book in our catalog   Eliza Griswold

Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More

2019
The New Negro
Click to search this book in our catalog   Jeffery C. Stewart

Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More

 
2018
Less
 Andrew Sean Greer

Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More

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2017
The Underground Railroad
 Colson Whitehead

Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More

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2016
The Sympathizer
 Viet Thanh Nguyen

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2015
All the Light We Cannot See
Click to search this book in our catalog   Anthony Doerr

Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More

2014
The Goldfinch: A Novel
Click to search this book in our catalog   Donna Tartt

Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More

2013
The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel
Click to search this book in our catalog   Adam Johnson

Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More

 
2011
A Visit from the Goon Squad
 Jennifer Egan

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2010
Tinkers
 Paul Harding

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2009
Olive Kitteridge:
 Elizabeth Strout

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2008
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Click to search this book in our catalog   Junot Diaz

Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More

2007
The Road
Click to search this book in our catalog   Cormac McCarthy

Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More

2006
March
Click to search this book in our catalog   Geraldine Brooks

Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More

 
2005
Gilead: A Novel
 Marilynne Robinson

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