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3. Nella Larsen’s story follows the complexfriendship between Irene and Clare who areboth Black but can pass for white, and howboth of their lives are shaped by this.5. Ann Petry’s 1946 debut novel was the first novelby a Black woman to sell over one million copies.
6. This is James Welch’s first novel, publishedin 1974, which takes place on the Fort BelknapNative American reservation in Montana.
9. Jamaica Kincaid’s coming-of-age story of agirl growing apart from her mother in Antigua.
10. This Pulitzer Prize-winning Toni Morrisonnovel tells the story of Sethe, who escapedslavery but is now haunted by the ghost of hernameless baby whose tombstone reads __.
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1.Written by Alice Walker, this novel won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted into a film starring Oprah Winfrey.
2. Claude McKay wrote one of the earliest African American queer fiction stories covering radical politics, racial identity and sexual preference called “Romance in _,” a city in France, in 1933, but the novel was only just published posthumously in 2020.
4. Octavia E. Butler’s classic novel looks at the practice of slavery in the American South from the perspective of a time traveling Black woman from the 1970s.
7. Angie Cruz wrote this novel inspired by her mother’s story about 15-year-old Ana, who marries and immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic in the hopes that it will allow her family to eventually immigrate too.
8. This Sandra Cisneros novel tells the story of 12-year-old Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago in a house on __ street.