Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Books Product Reviews and Prices

Melissa Fay Greene - Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction

Melissa Fay Greene's celebrated nonfiction book takes place in the '70s in a rural Georgia town, where a poor and uneducated black man stands up to ...

3 reviews

"Thats the Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"
Reviewed by toiletoctopus on Jan 22, 2005
If you like history, this is a winner.

Claude Brown - Manchild in the Promised Land

The classic autobiography of growing up in Harlem in the fifties. From a life of mischief and encounters with gangs, drug pushers, and the police, ...

2 reviews

"Manchild Promised Land"
Reviewed by lonniepoole on May 18, 2005
The book is about a black man by the name of Claude Brown. Claude brown is a black young man who made it out of the black . . .

Richard Rodriguez - Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez

Hunger Of Memory is the story of a Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words ...

4 reviews

"Brown Power?"
Reviewed by lansky2000 on May 15, 2002
Rodriguez antagonizes many Hispanic readers though successfully prosecuting the case of the Spanish-American as a victim of genocide in 21st century America...

Alex Hailey - Autobiography of Malcolm X

An autobiography of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X.

16 reviews

"Why The Movie Isn't Enough"
Reviewed by bilavideo on Jul 7, 2005
This is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the Civil Rights movement from the trenches, not from the privileged suburbia that produced MLK.

Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

Ellison's classic 1952 novel is about a black man from the South who travels to New York City in the 1930s. He becomes involved with the Communist ...

13 reviews

"Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: Black Youth's Search For Identity, Truth & Freedom~"
Reviewed by jankp on Oct 24, 2012
"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe, nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms..."

Jamaica Kincaid - Autobiography of My Mother

Xuela, a childless Dominican woman in her 70s whose own mother died while giving birth to her, tells the story of a life filled with tragedy and ...

2 reviews

"Dispair and Lonliness"
Reviewed by mhardenbrook on Dec 31, 1999
This book is about the life long yearning for love that surrounded the daughter born to a mother who died at childbirth. . . .

Alan Paton - Cry, the Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation

Often called the most important South African novel, this is the story of love and courage in the face of injustice.

8 reviews

"Why Cry?"
Reviewed by tch7 on May 14, 2005
Mneh. It's nothing worth getting excited about. You might like it, but I didn't.

Colson Whitehead - John Henry Days: A Novel

On assignment for a travel Web site, J. Sutter, a young African-American freelance journalist, heads for West Virginia to cover the "John Henry Days" ...

2 reviews

"Colson Whitehead: A Star Is Born"
Reviewed by vollmann on Aug 1, 2003
Get in on one of America's finest young writers while he's still young.

Quincy Jones - Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones

In a no-holds-barred memoir, the legendary musician, producer, and arranger chronicles his rise from the mean streets of Chicago to the heights of ...

1 review

"Take a walk in his shoes. . ."
Reviewed by fjw123 on Jun 14, 2002
One of the most honest autobiographies that I've read. The chapters that his family, friends, and past wives write about him further allow you to truly know him.

Walter Mosley - Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned: The Socrates Forllow Stories

New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley introduces an "astonishing character" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) in this acclaimed collection of ...

1 review

"A complex and fascinating character"
Reviewed by Stephen_Murray on Jul 26, 2004
Excellent stories of a difficult redemption

John Howard Griffin and Robert (AFT) Bonazzi - Black Like Me: Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: "This is a ...

10 reviews

"2nd reading as good as the first"
Reviewed by ricsan on Nov 8, 2005
I read this book when I was in high school 28 years ago. It is one I've never forgotten. I think it's as great a portrayal . . .

$5 - $10

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Judith Ortiz Cofer - The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry

In lyrical language, Cofer recounts her experiences with the homesick Puerto Rican women who live in her building in Paterson, New Jersey.

$6

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Toni Morrison - Beloved

In 2006 the New York Times chose Toni Morrison's fifth novel from 1987, BELOVED, as the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years, beating ...

29 reviews

"True Story!"
Reviewed by sbunnell27 on Jan 13, 2004
Whats amazing about Toni Morrison's Beloved is this: its a true story. A woman named Garner does what Sethe does in the book. . . .

$6

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Jonathan Kozol - Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation/Cassettes

The New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Savage Inequalities reveals the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx--the ...

8 reviews

"Amazing Grace"
Reviewed by stefs13 on Dec 27, 2009
I would recommend this book to educators and social workers who need a better understanding of the obstacles that their children and their clients face.

$6

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Madison Smartt Bell - All Souls' Rising

A retelling of an episode of history--the rebellion of Haitian slaves against French plantation owners. Madison Smartt Bell employs a cast of ...

1 review

"A Graphic and Compelling Historical Fiction Novel on the Haitian Slave Rebellions"
Reviewed by chelledun on Feb 26, 2006
This is a fine place to start if you wish to learn more about the Haitian slave rebellions in an interesting and engaging novel.

$6

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