Lit By Us

A Black-owned bookstore that highlights and amplifies literature by black and brown people.

 

 

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These Ghosts Are Family
The Star Side of Bird Hill
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
The Other Black Girl
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
2020* the Year of the Asterisk: American Essays
Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood
Blackout
Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora
Brown Girl Dreaming Heavy: An American Memoir The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (Anniversary)
Lit By Us

Black Memoirs

Citizen: An American Lyric Rain For Under Watered Roses like You and I January Children
Lit By Us

Poets Dripped in Blackness

Kindred (Anniversary)
Homegoing
Half of a Yellow Sun
Going to Meet the Man: Stories
Krik? Krak!
The Star Side of Bird Hill
Things Fall Apart
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
The World Doesn't Require You: Stories
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Dear Martin
Black Girl Magic: A Poem
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History
Woke Baby
Princess Hair
For those who stare at the moon
Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World
Bedtime Bonnet
A is for Activist
Antiracist Baby Board Book
Our Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy
The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
Closing The Racial Wealth Gap: 7 Untold Rules for Black Prosperity and Legacy
Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny
Assata: An Autobiography
The Crossover: A Newbery Award Winner
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Hate U Give: A Printz Honor Winner
Monster
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Women of Brewster Place
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
A Raisin in the Sun (Anniversary Rev)
Roots: The Saga of an American Family