Great African American Short Story Collections

1.
What Went Missing and What Got Found
What Went Missing and What Got Found 4.50 avg rating — 54 ratings
2.
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
by: ZZ Packer
3.88 avg rating — 7,777 ratings
3.
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self 4.06 avg rating — 5,036 ratings
4.
The Best of Simple: Stories
The Best of Simple: Stories 4.38 avg rating — 1,477 ratings
5.
All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories 3.82 avg rating — 2,386 ratings
6.
A Taste of Honey: Stories
A Taste of Honey: Stories 4.04 avg rating — 448 ratings
7.
Gorilla, My Love
Gorilla, My Love 4.11 avg rating — 2,311 ratings
8.
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women 4.08 avg rating — 2,489 ratings
9.
Lost in the City
Lost in the City 4.07 avg rating — 3,483 ratings
10.
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Short Stories
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Short Stories 4.01 avg rating — 3,360 ratings
11.
The Ways of White Folks
The Ways of White Folks 4.46 avg rating — 5,397 ratings
12.
Some Soul to Keep
Some Soul to Keep 4.52 avg rating — 1,758 ratings
13.
The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place 4.20 avg rating — 21,533 ratings
14.
Bloodchild and Other Stories
Bloodchild and Other Stories 4.35 avg rating — 26,122 ratings
15.
Homemade Love
Homemade Love 4.48 avg rating — 1,858 ratings
16.
Spunk: Selected Short Stories
Spunk: Selected Short Stories 4.17 avg rating — 457 ratings
17.
Rattlebone
Rattlebone 3.91 avg rating — 632 ratings
18.
Going to Meet the Man
Going to Meet the Man 4.37 avg rating — 8,159 ratings
19.
The Office of Historical Corrections
The Office of Historical Corrections 4.17 avg rating — 35,964 ratings
20.
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies 4.15 avg rating — 40,539 ratings
21.
The Matter Is Life
The Matter Is Life 4.53 avg rating — 1,178 ratings
22.
Let The Dead Bury Their Dead (Harvest American Writing Series)
Let The Dead Bury Their Dead (Harvest American Writing Series) 4.27 avg rating — 713 ratings
23.
Trouble No More
Trouble No More 3.71 avg rating — 38 ratings
24.
Free: And Other Stories
Free: And Other Stories 3.25 avg rating — 24 ratings
24.
Sarah Phillips
Sarah Phillips 3.65 avg rating — 255 ratings
26.
A Lucky Man
A Lucky Man 3.90 avg rating — 2,150 ratings
27.
The Portable Promised Land
The Portable Promised Land
by: Touré
4.13 avg rating — 211 ratings
28.
The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences
The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences 4.16 avg rating — 151 ratings
29.
Tales of the Out and the Gone
Tales of the Out and the Gone 3.57 avg rating — 205 ratings
30.
You Are Free
You Are Free 3.59 avg rating — 794 ratings
30.
Slapboxing with Jesus
Slapboxing with Jesus 3.72 avg rating — 490 ratings
32.
Get Down
Get Down 3.80 avg rating — 127 ratings
33.
Eight Men
Eight Men 3.98 avg rating — 849 ratings
34.
Half an Inch of Water
Half an Inch of Water 4.02 avg rating — 1,409 ratings
35.
A Piece of Mine: Stories
A Piece of Mine: Stories 4.53 avg rating — 1,216 ratings
36.
The Matter Is Life
The Matter Is Life 4.53 avg rating — 1,178 ratings
37.
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories 4.51 avg rating — 2,637 ratings
38.
Ghost Summer
Ghost Summer 4.20 avg rating — 2,340 ratings
39.
Flying Home and Other Stories
Flying Home and Other Stories 3.90 avg rating — 842 ratings
40.
Uncle Tom's Children
Uncle Tom's Children 4.13 avg rating — 3,357 ratings
41.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.23 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
42.
Water Street
Water Street 3.99 avg rating — 362 ratings
43.
Bloodline: Five Stories
Bloodline: Five Stories 4.04 avg rating — 439 ratings
43.
The Chronicles of a Crazy Chick
The Chronicles of a Crazy Chick 3.28 avg rating — 29 ratings
43.
God's Gym: Stories
God's Gym: Stories 3.67 avg rating — 93 ratings
43.
When Honeysuckles Fall: A Short Story Collection
When Honeysuckles Fall: A Short Story Collection 4.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
43.
The Short Stories
The Short Stories 4.36 avg rating — 697 ratings
43.
Homemade Love
Homemade Love 4.48 avg rating — 1,858 ratings
49.
All Stories are True: The Stories of John Edgar Wideman
All Stories are True: The Stories of John Edgar Wideman 4.07 avg rating — 104 ratings
49.
Some Soul to Keep
Some Soul to Keep 4.52 avg rating — 1,758 ratings
51.
Dr. King's Refrigerator: And Other Bedtime Stories
Dr. King's Refrigerator: And Other Bedtime Stories 3.50 avg rating — 189 ratings
52.
Elbow Room
Elbow Room 3.71 avg rating — 1,818 ratings
52.
Big Picture
Big Picture 3.89 avg rating — 94 ratings
52.
We Are Taking Only What We Need
We Are Taking Only What We Need 3.39 avg rating — 654 ratings
52.
Heads of the Colored People
Heads of the Colored People 4.11 avg rating — 7,906 ratings
52.
Friday Black
Friday Black 4.04 avg rating — 18,510 ratings
57.
Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns
Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns 4.14 avg rating — 768 ratings
57.
Unexpected Stories
Unexpected Stories 4.07 avg rating — 3,824 ratings
59.
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? 3.84 avg rating — 4,387 ratings
60.
I Got Somebody in Staunton: Stories
I Got Somebody in Staunton: Stories 3.39 avg rating — 114 ratings
60.
Damned If I Do
Damned If I Do 3.90 avg rating — 698 ratings
62.
This Strange New Feeling: Three Love Stories from Black History
This Strange New Feeling: Three Love Stories from Black History 3.95 avg rating — 56 ratings
63.
White Rat: Stories
White Rat: Stories 3.76 avg rating — 109 ratings
64.
Soulcatcher and Other Stories
Soulcatcher and Other Stories 3.95 avg rating — 115 ratings
65.
Let's Play White
Let's Play White 3.99 avg rating — 286 ratings
66.
Holding Pattern: Stories
Holding Pattern: Stories 3.69 avg rating — 42 ratings
67.
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States 3.98 avg rating — 750 ratings
68.
A Summer Tragedy
A Summer Tragedy 4.06 avg rating — 67 ratings
69.
Recurrence Plot: And Other Time Travel Tales
Recurrence Plot: And Other Time Travel Tales 3.86 avg rating — 87 ratings
70.
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas (Black Arts Movement Series)
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas (Black Arts Movement Series) 4.21 avg rating — 175 ratings
71.
Goodbye Sweetwater: New & Selected Stories
Goodbye Sweetwater: New & Selected Stories 4.46 avg rating — 54 ratings
72.
Ark of bones and other stories
Ark of bones and other stories 4.36 avg rating — 50 ratings
73.
Negro Tales
Negro Tales 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings
74.
The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas: Stories
The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas: Stories 4.04 avg rating — 82 ratings
75.
Moustapha's Eclipse
Moustapha's Eclipse 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
76.
White Boys: Stories
White Boys: Stories 4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings
77.
The Triumphs of Ephraim
The Triumphs of Ephraim 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
78.
Jesus and Fat Tuesday: And Other Short Stories
Jesus and Fat Tuesday: And Other Short Stories 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
79.
Squabble, And Other Stories
Squabble, And Other Stories 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
80.
Folks from Dixie
Folks from Dixie 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
81.
Insanity runs in our family
Insanity runs in our family 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
82.
The African in Me
The African in Me really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
83.
Fun & Games: Short Fictions
Fun & Games: Short Fictions 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
84.
The Beach Umbrella and Other Stories
The Beach Umbrella and Other Stories 3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
85.
Miss Muriel and Other Stories
Miss Muriel and Other Stories
by: Ann Petry
4.16 avg rating — 230 ratings
86.
Hue and Cry
Hue and Cry 4.12 avg rating — 323 ratings
87.
Laughing to Keep from Crying
Laughing to Keep from Crying 4.15 avg rating — 47 ratings
88.
Fever
Fever 3.81 avg rating — 141 ratings
89.
DAMBALLAH
DAMBALLAH 4.12 avg rating — 227 ratings
90.
Fifth Sunday
Fifth Sunday
by: Rita Dove
4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings
91.
Ancient, Ancient
Ancient, Ancient 3.88 avg rating — 162 ratings
92.
The Persimmon Trail and Other Stories
The Persimmon Trail and Other Stories 4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings
93.
The City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher
The City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher 4.24 avg rating — 50 ratings
94.
Driving Under the Cardboard Pines: And Other Stories
Driving Under the Cardboard Pines: And Other Stories really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
95.
In Old Plantation Days
In Old Plantation Days 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
96.
The Heart Of Happy Hollow: A Collection Of Stories
The Heart Of Happy Hollow: A Collection Of Stories 3.88 avg rating — 40 ratings
97.
Six Easy Pieces (Easy Rawlins #8)
Six Easy Pieces (Easy Rawlins #8) 4.13 avg rating — 2,479 ratings
98.
The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair
The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair 3.92 avg rating — 75 ratings
99.
In the Arms of Our Elders
In the Arms of Our Elders 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
100.
Counternarratives
Counternarratives 4.19 avg rating — 725 ratings
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