American Literature Books by BIPOC Authors
- American Literature, Contemporary Romance, Fiction, Romance
- Publication Year: 2025
Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her...
- by Anita Desai
- American Literature, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
From “world-class writer” (The Washington Post) and three-time Booker finalist Anita Desai, an exquisitely written stunning exploration of love, place, memory, history, and the secrets between a mother and her...
- American Literature, Fiction, Friendship Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A mesmerizing tale of love and courage, and a sweeping exploration of how profoundly we are shaped by those we meet when we are young, set against three transformative decades...
- by Tommy Orange
- American Literature, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three...
- American Literature, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Iranian-American multimillionaires Ali and Homa Milani have it all—a McMansion in the hills of Los Angeles, a microwaveable snack empire, and four spirited daughters. There’s Violet, the big-hearted aspiring model;...
- American Literature, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Satire
- Publication Year: 2024
James is a brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that...
- by Tania James
- American Literature, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero’s quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that...
- American Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Fiction, Folklore Fiction, Horror Fiction, Native American Literature, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2023
In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of...
- by Tommy Orange
- American Literature, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2018
A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not...
- by Marlon James
- American Literature, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2015
A “thrilling, ambitious . . . intense” (Los Angeles Times) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s, from the author of Black Leopard, Red...
- by Toni Jensen
- American Literature, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Native American Literature, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2010
For the characters we meet in Toni Jensen’s stories, the past is very much the present. Theirs are American Indian lives off the reservation, lives lived beyond the usual boundaries...
- American Literature, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2006
Told in spellbinding and mythic prose, House of Many Gods by Kiana Davenport is a deeply complex and provocative love story set against the background of Hawaii and Russia. Interwoven...
- American Literature, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2006
Rodeo cowboy Joe Willie Wolfchild, riding an explosive bull called See Four and moments away from becoming World Champion, suffers a devastating accident. His parents and grandparents use all their...