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The Book Butterfly is dedicated to collecting and redistributing novels created by writers of African descent.

Novels

Novels created by writers of African descent

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Clotel by William Wells Brown

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Carolina Built by Kianna Alexander

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

Meridian by Alice Walker

Lone Women by Victor LaValle

The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley

Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter

Middle Passage by Charles Johnson

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson

Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange

Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham

While We Were Dating by Jasmine Guillory

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy

The Gosling Girl by Jacqueline Roy

Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Africaville by Jeffrey Colvin

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