Collection: Classics

In Suriname, off the northeastern coast of South America, Grandma Bee has many children who have given her many more grandchildren. They are all a mix...

A poignant and powerful story of the American South in the 1960s and of one woman who risks her life for the people she loves...

A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person...

The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet   In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship,...

A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a black youth on death row for a...

An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials   The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass's Narrative powerfully...

The National Book Award-winning novel--and contemporary classic--that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor "[A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the realities of...