Books like 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.
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Erasure
Thelonious Ellison, a Black experimental novelist told his work is not Black enough, writes a grotesque parody of a ghetto novel under a pseudonym, and it becomes a bestseller.
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.
Who Is Maud Dixon?
Florence Darrow, a young publishing assistant desperate to be a writer, lands a job working for Maud Dixon, the anonymous author of a bestselling debut, and follows her to Morocco to research the next novel, where things go badly wrong.
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.
Yellowface
When her more successful friend dies, a struggling white novelist steals the unfinished manuscript about Chinese labourers in World War I, publishes it as her own, and lives in fear of being found out online.
Ace of Spades
At Niveus Academy, an elite private school, the only two Black students, Devon, a quiet musician, and Chiamaka, the ambitious head girl, are targeted by an anonymous texter called Aces who begins exposing their secrets to the whole school.
Night Film
When the daughter of Stanislas Cordova, a reclusive director of cult horror films, is found dead in a Manhattan warehouse, Scott McGrath, a journalist whose career Cordova once wrecked, starts digging into the family and the legends around their estate.
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.
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.
Blanche on the Lam
Sentenced to thirty days for bouncing cheques, Blanche White, a Black domestic worker, slips out of the courthouse and hides as the new maid for a wealthy white family at their summer house in North Carolina, just before a body turns up.
The Changeling
Apollo Kagwa, a used-book dealer in New York, has just become a father when his wife, Emma, begins insisting that their baby is not their baby, and an act he cannot comprehend sends him across the city, and into its fairy tales, to find out why.