Reading the Classics

Books to read eventually, sooner rather than later, but certainly by 2020:

1. Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
2. The Garies and Their Friends by Frank J. Webb
3. Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson
4. Clotel, or The President's Daughter by William Wells Brown
5. Iola Leroy by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
6. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
7. The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt
8. Imperium in Imperio by Sutton E. Griggs
9. Dred: A Tale of a Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe
10. Contending Forces by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
11. A Voice from the South by Anna Julia Cooper
12. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
13. Southern Horrors by Ida B. Wells
14. Isa, A Pilgrimage by Caroline Chesebro
15. Presbyterian Pioneers in Congo by William Henry Sheppard
16. Winona by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
17. Clarence and Corinne by A.E. Johnson
18. Blake or, The Huts of America by Martin R. Delany
19. Dust Tracks on the Road by Zora Neale Hurston
20. Home to Harlem by Claude McKay
21. Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset
22. Quicksand by Nella Larson
23. Homespun Heroines and other Women of Distinction by Hallie Q Brown
24. The Goodness of St Rocque by Alice Dunbar Johnson
25. The Curse of Caste by Julia C. Collins
26. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by Ellen Craft
27. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup
28. On Our Own Ground by William Apess
29. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, by Himself
30. Cane by Jean Toomer
31. The Street by Ann Petry
32. The Living is Easy by Dorothy West
33. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
34. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
35. American Hunger by Richard Wright
36. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
37. Strange Fruit by Lillian E. Smith
38. Oreo by Fran Ross
39. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
40. Beloved by Toni Morrison
41. Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
42. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
43. The Known World by Edward P. Jones
44. Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
45. The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
46. The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley
47. The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
48. Erasure by Percival Everett
49. And This Too Shall Pass by E. Lynn Harris
50. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
51. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
52. Homemade Love by J. California Cooper
53. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide by Ntozake Shange
54. The Wedding by Dorothy West
55. How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan
56. Magic City by Jewell Parker Rhodes
57. The Color of Water by James McBride
58. Another Country by James Baldwin
59. Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans
60. The Sellout by Paul Beatty