Books like The whiskey of our discontent by Quraysh Ali Lansana

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.

Between the World and Me is a memoir‑essay in letter form, where Ta‑Nehisi Coates addresses his teenage son about the history, violence, and ongoing reality of being Black in America.

Two lifelong friends, Nel and Sula, navigate friendship, betrayal, and the changing landscapes of Medallion, Ohio, as they grow into very different women.

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.

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).

In the aftermath of the Revolution, disgraced spy Ethan Saunders is hired by Alexander Hamilton to locate a missing war veteran, while Joan Maycott ventures west to earn a living through whiskey distillation—both stories collide amid political intrigue and frontier hardship.

Seventeen‑year‑old Jessilyn Harney, orphaned on her 1885 homestead, cuts her hair and assumes a boy’s identity to trek across the West in pursuit of her outlaw brother, while starving and surrounded by danger.

In Ohio’s Lake Erie community, the Whiskey Island Saloon, run by the Donaghue sisters, hides a family mystery that resurfaces when a violent act forces two reluctant allies to uncover a long‑hidden murder.

Two friends, Pearl and Hallie, flee the rough town of Whiskey Bend with Mary after a violent assault, seeking safety and a new life on the frontier.

A quiet, powerful tale of Henry Townsend, a former slave who rises to become a plantation owner in antebellum Virginia, and the turbulent world of his estate and the wider South as slavery persists and challenges surface.

"Poet, activist, and essayist June Jordan is a prolific, significant American writer who pushed the limits of political vision and moral witness, traversing a career of over forty years. With poetry, prose, letters, and more, this reader is a key resource for understanding the scope, complexity, and novelty of this pioneering Black American writer. From "Poem about Police Violence": Tell me something what you think would happen if everytime they kill a black boy then we kill a cop everytime they kill a black man then we kill a cop you think the accident rate would lower subsequently?. I lose consciousness of ugly bestial rabid and repetitive affront as when they tell me 18 cops in order to subdue one man 18 strangled him to death in the ensuing scuffle (don't you idolize the diction of the powerful: subdue and scuffle my oh my) and that the murder that the killing of Arthur Miller on a Brooklyn street was just a "justifiable accident" again (again) People been having accidents all over the globe so long like that I reckon that the only suitable insurance is a gun"--