The list below comprises the books that make up the “100 Novels Project.” The list of books ranges from Southern, Protest, Feminist, Neo-Slave Narratives, and Street literature.
- Go Tell It on The Mountain James Baldwin 1953
- The Salt Eaters Toni Cade Bambara 1980
- The White Boy Shuffle Paul Beatty 1996
- The Chaneysville Incident David Bradley 1981
- Maud Martha Gwendolyn Brooks 1993
- Clotel: or, the President’s Daughter William Wells Brown 1853
- Kindred Octavia Butler 1979
- Parable of the Sower Octavia Butler 1993
- Parable of the Talents Octavia Butler 1998
- Patternmaster Octavia Butler 1976
- Brothers and Sisters Bebe Moore Campbell 1994
- House Behind the Cedars Charles Waddell Chesnutt 1900
- The Marrow of Tradition Charles Waddell Chesnutt 1901
- Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat 1994
- Blake; Or, The Huts of America Martin R. Delany 1859
- Dhalgren Samuel Delany 1975
- The Heroic Slave Frederick Douglass 1852
- The Quest of the Silver Fleece W.E.B. DuBois 1911
- The Fanatics Paul Laurence Dunbar 1901
- The Sport of the Gods Paul Laurence Dunbar 1902
- Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 1952
- Erasure Percival Everett 2001
- The Walls of Jericho Rudolph Fisher 1928
- Hope’s Highway Sarah Lee Brown Fleming 1918
- There is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden Leon Forrest 1973
- Two Wings to Veil My Face Leon Forrest 1983
- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Ernest Gaines 1971
- A Lesson Before Dying Ernest Gaines 1993
- The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist Sutton E. Griggs. 1905
- Imperium in Imperio Sutton E. Griggs. 1899
- Roots Alex Haley 1976
- If He Hollers Let Him Go Chester Himes 1945
- Contending Forces Pauline E. Hopkins 1900
- Not Without Laughter Langston Hughes 1930
- Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 1937
- Middle Passage Charles Johnson 1990
- Oxherding Tale Charles Johnson 1982
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson 1912/1927
- The Known World Edward P. Jones 2003
- Corregidora Gayl Jones 1975
- Eva's Man Gayl Jones 1976
- The Healing Gayl Jones 1998
- Mosquito Gayl Jones 1999
- Leaving Atlanta Tayari Jones 2002
- And Then We Heard the Thunder John Oliver Killens 1962
- The Cotillion: or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd John Oliver Killens 1971
- Annie John Jamaica Kincaid 1985
- Quicksand Nella Larsen 1928
- Black Water Rising Attica Locke 2009
- Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar Clarence Major 1988
- Brown Girl, Brownstones Paule Marshall 1959
- Home to Harlem Claude McKay 1928
- Getting to Happy Terry McMillan 2010
- How Stella Got Her Groove Back Terry McMillan 1996
- Waiting to Exhale Terry McMillan 1992
- Conquest: The Story of A Negro Pioneer Oscar Micheaux 1913
- Beloved Toni Morrison 1987
- The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison 1970
- Jazz Toni Morrison 1992
- Love Toni Morrison 2003
- A Mercy Toni Morrison 2008
- Paradise Toni Morrison 1997
- Song of Solomon Toni Morrison 1977
- Sula Toni Morrison 1973
- Tar Baby Toni Morrison 1981
- Devil in a Blue Dress Walter Mosley 1990
- Mama Day Gloria Naylor 1988
- The Women of Brewster Place Gloria Naylor 1982
- Getting Mother's Body Suzan-Lori Parks 2003
- The Street Ann Petry 1946
- Flight to Canada Ishmael Reed 1976
- Mumbo Jumbo Ishmael Reed 1972
- Black No More George Schuyler 1931
- Caucasia Danzy Senna 1998
- Some Sing, Some Cry Ntozake Shange 2010
- Mama Black Widow Iceberg Slim 1969
- Trick Baby Iceberg Slim 1967
- The Coldest Winter Ever Sister Souljah 2000
- A Charleston Love Story of Hortense Vancross Theophilus Gould Steward 1899
- Cane Jean Toomer 1923
- The Color Purple Alice Walker 1982
- Meridian Alice Walker 1976
- The Third Life of Grange Copeland Alice Walker 1970
- Jubilee Margaret Walker 1966
- The Living Is Easy Dorothy West 1948
- Apex Hides the Hurt Colson Whitehead 2007
- The Intuitionist Colson Whitehead 1999
- John Henry Days Colson Whitehead 2001
- Sag Harbor Colson Whitehead 2009
- A Glance Away John Edgar Wideman 1967
- Philadelphia Fire John Edgar Wideman 1990
- Sent for You Yesterday John Edgar Wideman 1983
- Dessa Rose Sherley Anne Williams 1986
- The Man Who Cried I Am John A. Williams 1967
- Our Nig Harriet E. Wilson 1859
- A Father's Law Richard Wright 2008
- Lawd Today Richard Wright 1963
- Native Son Richard Wright 1940
- The Outsider Richard Wright 1953
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