A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You – Amy Bloom
A Lesson Before Dying – Ernest J. Gaines
A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry
A Thousand Acres – Jane Smiley
Annie Allen – Gwendolyn Brooks
Black, White, and Jewish – Rebecca Walker
Brown Girl Dreaming – Jacqueline Woodson
Collected Poems – Robert Hayden
Coming Through Slaughter – Michael Ondaatje
Crooked Hearts – Robert Boswell
Dear John, Dear Coltrane – Michael S. Harper
Edinburgh – Alexander Chee
Finding a Girl in America – Andre Dubus
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
Heaven – Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Heavy – Kiese Laymon
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
Late Wife – Claudia Emerson
Linden Hills – Gloria Naylor
Lost in the City – Edward P. Jones
Love Medicine – Louise Erdrich
Set This House on Fire – William Styron
Silk – Alessandro Baricco
Soul Kiss – Shay Youngblood
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh – John Lahr
The Death and Life of Great American Cities – Jane Jacobs
The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
The Intuitionist – Colson Whitehead
The Lover – Marguerite Duras
The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
The Paris Wife – Patricia McLain
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
Trumpet – Jackie Kay
Truth & Beauty – Ann Patchett
Two Trains Running – August Wilson
White Swan, Black Swan – Adrienne Sharp
Wonder Boys – Michael Chabon