Books like Divine days by Leon Forrest

Alice Walker's 1982 novel, The Color Purple, won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, exploring the lives of black women in the South and their experiences of abuse and struggle for independence.

Zora Neale Hurston’s Pulitzer‑winning novel follows Janie Crawford’s journey of self‑discovery and empowerment, mapping her search for love, independence, and identity against the backdrop of the African‑American South during the early 20th century.

In New York’s toughest streets, Winter—gifted, street‑savvy daughter of a Brooklyn drug dynasty—uses her wit and allure to survive a volatile winter of crime and ambition.

Richard Wright’s autobiographical memoir chronicles his growth from childhood to adulthood while confronting the harsh realities of segregation in the Jim Crow South.

A Black man's journey through racism, identity and activism in 1940s Harlem, culminating in a revelatory escape from the streets to self-knowledge.

Bigger Thomas, a 20-year-old black youth in poverty on Chicago's South Side, becomes embroiled in a brutal murder and must face the consequences of his violent actions in Richard Wright's novel 'Native Son' (1940).

African-American fiction

Jack and Annie journey back 2,000 years to ancient China in a magic treehouse, racing to recover a legendary text before the Dragon King burns the Imperial Library.

Toni Morrison’s adult novel follows black fashion model Jadine Childs and fugitive lover, Son, as their love story weaves through the Caribbean, Manhattan and the deep South, confronting race, loyalty, ambition and crime.

Mama Day follows Ophelia and George as they navigate love and cultural differences while witnessing the fading Gullah culture on Georgia’s sea islands, a story that echoes themes of family, heritage, and female independence.

Ralph Ellison’s 13 unpublished short stories, written 1937‑1954, draw on his early life and present vivid African‑American experiences.

In 2012, a wave of deaths claims the world’s top astrophysicists, astronomers, and mathematicians—only to discover they are alive, held captive by alien forces. A 16‑year‑old with rare gifts must rally the scientists and their loved ones to fight evil and save Earth.

Chauncey Greer, an African‑American entrepreneur in Atlanta, rekindles his love of music and confronts homophobia within his church as he navigates love, faith, and identity.

A teenage girl named Teresa encounters the ghost of Brother Rush, who guides her through her family's hidden past and helps her see the true meaning of her struggles.

Following the dates of the calendar year, Galeano resurrects the heroes and heroines who have fallen off the historical map, but whose lives remind us of our darkest hours and sweetest victories. "Galeano's new book is his richest and most poetic yet, a joyous calendar of the sacred and the damned, a book of inspiration for those fighting tyranny, greed, and amnesia Unfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Galeano's new work has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that day of the calendar year. Each entry resurrects the heroes and heroines who have fallen off the historical map, but whose lives remind us of our darkest hours and sweetest victories. Among many others, you will discover the Brazilians who held a "smooch in" to protest a dictatorship that banned kisses that "undermined public morals" and learn of the day Mexico invaded the United States, the "sacrilegious" women who had the effrontery to marry each other in a church in 1901, and Abdul Kassem Ismael, the grand vizier of Persia, who kept books safe from war by creating a walking library, 117,000 books aboard four hundred camels, forming a mile-long caravan. Beautifully translated by Galeano's longtime collaborator, Mark Fried, Children of the Days is a great humanist treasure that shows us how to live and how to remember. It awakens the best in us."--