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5 books

Fiction

Jazz

Toni Morrison

A Harlem love triangle unfolds through a shifting narrative shaped by musical improvisation.

Fiction

Passing

Nella Larsen

A reunion between two childhood acquaintances unsettles the social boundaries each has learned to navigate.

Picture book

Tar Beach

Faith Ringgold

A child flying above a Harlem rooftop turns the city into a map of wishes for her family.

Memoir

The Big Sea

Langston Hughes

Hughes remembers childhood, travel, and the artists and arguments around the Harlem Renaissance.

Poetry

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

An expansive collection follows Hughes across vernacular forms, music, and political imagination.