A Decade of Hit Books
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Harlem


Harlem Books

Harlem Shuffle (The Harlem Trilogy, #1)
Crook Manifesto (The Harlem Trilogy, #2)
Push
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
Passing
Invisible Man
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Harlem Rhapsody
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
Homegoing
The Blacker the Berry...
Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)
A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
Some Places More Than Others
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street (The Vanderbeekers, #1)
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Lists

City of Bones by Cassandra ClarePhoebe Unfired by Amalie JahnThe Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanDash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel CohnThe Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
YA books set in New York City
353 books — 91 voters
Push by SapphireThe Poet X by Elizabeth AcevedoHarlem Shuffle by Colson WhiteheadA Rage in Harlem by Chester HimesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Books Set in Harlem, NYC
173 books — 22 voters

Passing by Nella LarsenPlum Bun by Jessie Redmon FausetQuicksand by Nella LarsenTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonJonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston
Women of Harlem Renaissance
17 books — 6 voters
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonThe Promised Land by Nicholas LemannA Nation Under Our Feet by Steven HahnThe Southern Diaspora by James N. GregoryKrazy by Michael Tisserand
Canaan Bound: Nonfiction Books on America's Epic Great Migration
42 books — 3 voters

Roaming by Jillian TamakiMy New York Diary by Julie DoucetThis Beautiful, Ridiculous City by Kay SohiniIsla to Island by Alexis CastellanosFun Home by Alison Bechdel
Graphic Novels Set in New York
5 books — 2 voters
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. KonigsburgAll-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney TaylorHarriet the Spy by Louise FitzhughStuart Little by E.B. WhiteEloise by Kay Thompson
Children's Books set in New York City
570 books — 130 voters

Quotes Tagged “Harlem”

James Baldwin
“ In Harlem, Negro policemen are feared more than whites, for they have more to prove and fewer ways to prove it ”
― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
18 likes

Brendan Mathews
“ --and that if you gave them a dance floor and a full band to fuel them, they could do more than dance: they could fly. ....They did it without wings. ”
― Brendan Mathews, The World of Tomorrow
2 likes

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Videos Tagged “Harlem”

Paul Tough at the Building Hope Conference
Paul Tough at the Building Hope Conference
Author Tom DeWolf on Inheriting the Trade
Author Tom DeWolf on Inheriting the Trade
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Groups Tagged "Harlem"

Q&A with Persia Walker Join popular author Persia Walker in a lively discussion about BLACK ORCHID BLUES, the third of …more
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