1987 · Cincinnati
Beloved
Toni Morrison
The novel Morrison won the Nobel for, and the one that set the rules for how American literature had to talk about slavery from then on. Read it slow. Read it twice.
The LibraryThe Canon
Where to buy it
30 shops30 Black-owned bookshops in 17 states, all of them listings in this directory. 21 have a website that answered when we last checked and the rest are worth a phone call — an independent shop will order a title in for you whether or not it is on the shelf today. We are not claiming any of them has this book in stock right now, because we do not know that.
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The Canon
3 books
