Discussion Guides

Discussions Guides for books by and about African-Americans focusing on African-American Literature, African-American books and African-American authors.

4 Guys and Trouble by Marcus Major

And on the Eighth Day She Rested by JD Mason

Bailey’s Cafe by Gloria Naylor

Bittersweet by Freddie Johnson, III

Black Boy by Richard Wright

Between Lovers by Eric Jerome Dickey

Breathing Room by Patricia Elam

By the Light of My Father’s Smile by Alice Walker

Cane River by Lalita Tademy

Child of God by Lolita Files

Color of Justice by Gary Hardwick

Day Late and a Dollar Short, A by Terry McMillan

Drama High Keep It Moving by L. Divine

Douglass’ Women by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Emperor of Ocean Park, The by Stephen L. Carter

Fall of Rome, The by Martha Southgate

Family by J. California Copper

Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Hand I Fan With, The by Tina McElroy Ansa

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

I Wish I Had a Red Dress by Pearl Cleage

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Justus Girls, The by Slim Lambright

Keep It Movin’ by L. Devine

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Lesson Before Dying, A by Ernest J. Gaines

Living Blood, The by Tananrive Due

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor

Meeting of the Waters by Kim McLarin

My Soul to Keep by Tananrive Due

Native Son by Richard Wright

A New Kind of Bliss by Bettye Griffin

Obsessed by Devon Scott

An Ordinary Woman by Donna Hill

Orange Mint and Honey by Carleen Brice

Practicing What You Preach by Vanessa Griggs

A Price to Pay by Angela Winters

Push by Sapphire

Raising Fences by Michael Datcher

Resurrecting Mingus by Jenoyne Adams

Sugar by Bernice McFadden

Tempest Rising by Dian McKinney-Whetstone

The Women and Men of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

This Bitter Earth by Bernice L. McFadden

True Lies by Margaret Johnson-Hodge

Tumbling by Dianne McKinney-Whetstone

View Park by Angela Winters

Wake of the Wind, The by J. California Copper

Warmest December, The by Bernice L. McFadden

The Way We Roll by Stephanie Perry Moore

What You Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell

Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell