Popular African American Literature
In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator describes growing up in a Black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood," before retreating amid violence and confusion.
What is Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man?
This picture book, written by Kathleen Krull, is the story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
What is No Truth Without Ruth?
This professor received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at El Paso.
Who is Dr. Nikki Agee?
Voted #7, this story is about a livestock pig named and his friendship with a barn spider.
What is Charlotte's Web by E. B. White?
This novel will be adapted by Guillermo del Toro for Netflix. It will serve as a sequel, as well, in which Dr. Pretorius is on a quest to track down a certain creation.
What is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?
This novel follows Janie Crawford as she embarks on a journey of self-realization and personal growth, navigating the tumultuous terrain of relationships and social conventions in search of her own voice and agency.
What is Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God?
This children's book is written by Academy Award-winning actress, Julianne Moore, and focuses on a red-haired seven-year-old who has a loose tooth!
What is Freckleface Strawberry?
The newest member of ETWL received his Ph.D. from Purdue University.
Who is Dr. Mac Boyle?
Voted #1 by PBS, this novel's story is told by Jean Louise Finch and takes place during three years (1933–35) of the Great Depression in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. Nicknamed Scout, the narrator, who is six years old at the beginning of the book, lives with her older brother, Jeremy, and their widowed father, Atticus.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee?
Slated for a summer release, this fresh take on the classic horror franchise sees a group of friends being terrorized by a stalker who taunts them about a gruesome incident from their past.
What is I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan?
This novel tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre–Civil War South. As she time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is part of her own complicated familial history on a southern plantation, she becomes frighteningly entangled in the lives of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of Dana’s own ancestors, and the many people who are enslaved by him.
What is Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred?
The novel features the true story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother, and an ordinary American family's extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness of all people?
What is Amy Ellis Nutt's Becoming Nicole: The Inspiring Story of Transgender Actor-Activist Nicole Maines and Her Extraordinary Family?
This professor received her Ph.D. from Northern Arizona University.
Who Dr. Eun Hee Jeon?
Voted 12 by PBS, this novel, set during the Great Depression, focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work.
What is The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck?
Picked up by Amazon MGM Studios, this thriller is officially in production and it already has already cast its titular character. Anne Hathaway has reportedly signed onto the film to play the character of Lowen, a struggling writer who is approaching financial crisis and is given a once-in-a-career opportunity to finish a famed author’s successful series, but soon encounters chilling secrets that could unravel it all.
What is Verity by Colleen Hoover?
This novel concerns the events in the life of an American man living in Paris and his feelings and frustrations with his relationships with other men in his life, particularly an Italian bartender named Giovanni whom he meets at a Parisian gay bar
What is James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room?
This memoir discusses the Appalachian values of the author's family from Kentucky and the socioeconomic problems of the author's hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where the author's mother's parents moved when they were young.
What is Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by Vice President JD Vance?
This professor received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia?
Who is Dr. Cathy Parisian?
Voted #24 by PBS, This post-apocalyptic, dark fantasy novel about a deadly pandemic of weaponized influenza and its aftermath, in which some of the few surviving humans gather into factions that are each led by a personification of either good or evil and seem fated to clash with each other.
What is The Stand by Stephen King?
With production wrapping on the TV adaption this novel, the miniseries is set to air in early 2025. Starring Brittany Snow as Sophie O'Neil, with Malin Akerman and Dermot Mulroney as Margo and Jed Banks, the series is set to largely follow the original plot, which offers storylines of obsession, seduction, and murder.
What is The Hunting Wives by May Cobb?
This American newspaper comic strip, created and written by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by Jorge Longarón ran from January 18, 1970, to February 17, 1974 and was notable for featuring one of the first African-American women as the title character in a comic strip.
What is Friday Foster?
This novel follows the unfolding of a school shooting, including the events leading up to the incident and the aftermath of the incident.
What is Nineteen Minutes is by Jodi Picoult?
This professor received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro?
Who are Dr. Zachary Laminack?
Voted last, coming in at 100, this novel by a Venezuelan author was first published in 1929. It is described as "possibly the most widely known Latin American novel." This regionalist novel deals with the confrontation between civilization and the barbaric aspects of the rural environment and its inhabitants.
What is Doña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos?
Already starring Sydney Sweeney (playing the titular housemaid, Millie), Amanda Seyfried and It Ends With Us star Brandon Sklenar (playing the wealthy couple, Nina and Andrew), with Paul Feig of on board to direct, fans are no doubt eager to see how this stellar cast and crew bring to life the viral story of a struggling woman making a fresh start as a housemaid, who soon discovers the family secrets of her upscale bosses which prove far more dangerous than her own.
What is Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid?