The Haunting of Rookward House by Darcy Coates | Goodreads
These are my guilty pleasures. Not exactly reading Proust in French
[[did that in college) now it's the fun stuff!
A big fan of architecture. Alden Dow studied with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin.
The Murder of Cleopatra - Pat Brown - Prometheus Books 2013
Subtitled: History's Greatest Cold Case.
Did Octavian dispatch Cleopatra and put out the suicide story for his own benefit? History is written by victors. The story is speculative but interesting.
Black Moses - Alain Mabanckou
A clever 1970s Congolese take on Oliver Twist.
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They Called Us Exceptional....Other Lies That Raised Us - Prachi Gupta
The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Emezi
Thr tagline of this novel is: What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew? Not even 30 pages in...and I'm shattered.
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Half an Inch of Water: Stories - Percival Everett
The fiction master returns with a collection of offbeat stories set in the American West.
Josephine Baker's Last Dance - Sherry Jones
The French music-hall queen/WWII Résistance spy/civil rights icon gets the historical fiction treatment.
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Pym - Mat Johnson
A fired literature professor goes on a wild quest through Antarctica to uncover the Black roots of Poe's only novel.
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks - Jeanne Theoharis
She was not some hapless, unwitting seamstress who one day got tired on a Jim Crow bus but a fierce, tireless civil rights tactician and organizer many years before her storied arrest and for decades afterward. This biography explodes the myths and illuminates her life and work.
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Didn't We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston - Gerrick Kennedy
This author does a fantastic job of nailing the essence of what made the world fall in love with Whitney--and explores why that same world tore her down with glee in her darkest hours. Recommended.
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The Housing Lark - Sam Selvon
A group of Caribbean immigrants comically plot to buy a house together in repressive, racist 1960s London.
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In West Mills - De'Shawn Charles Winslow
A four-decade-spanning saga of the loves and secrets of an independent, hard-living, outspoken woman in rural North Carolina.
A Haunting on the Hill
Book review: Elizabeth Hand's 'A Haunting on the Hill' honors Shirley Jackson : NPR
Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life - Jonathan Gould
Exhaustive and long-overdue.
Where The Dead Wait...Ally Wilkes
Where the Dead Wait | Book by Ally Wilkes | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster [[simonandschuster.com)
Slave Old Man - Patrick Chamoiseau
The title character engages in a lyrical battle with nature--namely a hound on his trail--as he escapes his bondage in Martinique.
Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation - Imani Perry
A critical analysis of the concept of patriarchy in global culture from the Enlightenment to the present.
Black Deutschland - Darryl Pinckney
A gay, Black American man goes on a quest to escape his past and find love and fulfillment in 1980s Berlin.
The Changeling - Victor LaValle
Myth, phantasmagoria and social commentary collide in this horror fable set in late-20th-century outer-borough New York.
Decent People - De'Shawn Charles Winslow
A small-town triple homicide lays bare all manner of secrets and evasions.
The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar- Robin R. Means Coleman, Ph.D. and Mark R. Harris
A must for fans of Black film and horror nerds alike. Encyclopedic, engrossing and mordantly funny.
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