Juneteenth

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Juneteenth

Juneteenth commemorates the day the last enslaved people were emancipated in the United States on June 19, 1865. This list honors the holiday featuring historical fictional books based around slavery.

1 The Book Of Negroes

Lawrence Hill

2 The Known World

Edward P. Jones

3 Sugar

Bernice L. McFadden

4 The Long Song

Andrea Levy

5 The Color Purple

Alice Walker

6 The Confessions of Nat Turner: A Novel

William Styron

7 The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

8 Twelve Years A Slave: illustrated Original Edition With Bonus of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Solomon Northup

9 The Sweetness of Water

Nathan Harris

10 Beloved

Toni Morrison

11 Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

12 Juneteenth

Ralph Ellison

13 Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

14 The Book of Night Women

Marlon James

15 The Water Dancer

Ta-Nehisi Coates

16 Cane River

Lalita Tademy

17 The Kitchen House

Kathleen Grissom

18 The Invention of Wings

Sue Monk Kidd

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