Books like Black No More
When a Black doctor invents a treatment that turns Black people white, Max Disher, a Harlem insurance clerk, is among the first to take it, and heads south to win the white woman who once snubbed him.
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Mumbo Jumbo
In 1920s America a craze called Jes Grew sets people dancing, and PaPa LaBas, a Harlem houngan, races to find its lost sacred text before the Wallflower Order, an ancient society defending Western civilisation, can destroy it.
The Sellout
A Black farmer in Dickens, a Los Angeles neighbourhood that has been quietly wiped off the map, sets out to put it back, by reinstating slavery and segregating the local school.
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
A young Black man named Not Sidney Poitier, raised with a fortune and Ted Turner as guardian, stumbles through a life that keeps replaying the plots of Sidney Poitier's films.
Black Buck
Darren Vender, a twenty-two-year-old barista in a Manhattan Starbucks, is talked into joining a tech startup's sales team by its chief executive, and becomes the only Black salesman in the building.
The Other Black Girl
Nella Rogers, the only Black editorial assistant at a Manhattan publishing house, is thrilled when Hazel joins the office, until anonymous notes start appearing on her desk telling her to leave.
Colored Television
Jane, a mixed-race novelist in Los Angeles, has spent ten years on a serious book about mixed-race America, and broke and house-sitting for a famous friend, she decides to try selling a television show instead.
Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry, a hard-drinking, womanising college football hero, is pushed into the ministry and finds that preaching suits his appetites.
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China
The complete fiction of Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature, from A Madman's Diary to the story of Ah-Q, a village labourer who turns every humiliation into a victory.
The Trees
When white men in Money, Mississippi, start turning up dead beside the body of a Black man who resembles Emmett Till, two state detectives arrive in a furious dark comedy about a century of lynching.
Invisible Man
A nameless Black narrator, living underground in a hole lit by stolen electricity, tells how he went from a Southern college to Harlem and a political brotherhood, and came to see himself as invisible.
Passing
Irene Redfield, a doctor's wife in Harlem, runs into her childhood friend Clare Kendry in a Chicago hotel and learns that Clare has been passing as white, married to a white man who knows nothing of her past.
The Time Regulation Institute
Hayri İrdal, a man of no particular ability, tells how he came to help run an institute devoted to setting all the clocks of Istanbul to the same time.