African-American Inspirational, Mystery & Short Stories


Ready for something different? Try An African-American Inspirational, Mystery or Short-Story Anthology!

Inspirational Fiction:

Adams, Stacy Hawkins – Speak to My Heart, Nothing But the Right Thing, Watercolored Pearls

Benson, Angela – Abiding Hope, The Amen Sisters, Awakening Mercy

Beverly, Sonnie – Saved Folk in the House

Bible, Montre – Heaven Bound

Billings, Maxine – Measure of Faith, Test of Faith, Breaking Point, Time for Hope

Billingsley, Reshonda Tate – My Brother's Keeper, I Know I've Been Changed, Let the Church Say Amen, Everybody Say Amen, The Pastor's Wife

Bowen, Michele Andrea – Church Folk, Second Sunday, Holy Ghost Corner

Brooks, Kimberly – He's Fine – But is He Saved?

Ellis, Jamellah – That Faith, That Trust, That Love

Foster, Sharon Ewell – Ain't No River, Passing by Samaria, Riding through Shadows

Griggs, Vanessa Davis – Rose of Jericho
 
Jones, Patricia – Red on a Rose

Murray, Victoria – Joy, Temptation
 
Robinson, C. Kelly – Between Brothers

Thomas, Jacquelin – Prodigal Husband, Singsation

Mystery Fiction:

Bland, Eleanor – Dead Time, Done Wrong, Keep Still, See No Evil, Slow Burn, Tell No Tales

Carter, Charlotte – Coq Au Vin, Rhode Island Red

DeLoach, Nora – Mama Rocks the Empty Cradle, Mama Saves a Victim, Mama Solves a Murder, Mama Stalks the Past, Mama Stands Accused, Mama Traps a Killer

Edwards, Grace F. – If I Should Die, No Time to Die, Toast before Dying

Greer, Robert – Devil's Backbone, Devil's Hatband, Devil's Red Nickel

Haywood, Gar Anthony – It's Not a Pretty Sight, When Last Seen Alive, You Can Die Trying
 
Holton, Hugh – Criminal Element, The Devil's Shadow, The Left Hand of God, Red Lightning

Mickelberry, Penny – Keeping Secrets, Night Songs, Where to Choose

Mosley, Walter – Black Betty, Devil in a Blue Dress, Gone Fishin', A Little Yellow Dog, A Red Death, White Butterfly

Neely, Barbara – Blanche Among the Talented Tenth, Blanche Cleans Up, Blanche on the Lam, Blanche Passes Go

Walker, Blair – Don't Believe Your Lying Eyes, Hidden in Plain View, Up Jumped the Devil

Walker, Persia – Harlem Redux

Wesley, Valerie Wilson – Devil's Gonna Get Him, Easier to Kill, No Hiding Place, When Death Comes Stealing, Where Evil Sleeps

West, Chassie – Loss of Innocence, Sunrise

Wimberley, Darryl – Dead Man's Bay, A Rock and a Hard Place, Strawman's Hammock

Woods, Paula – Inner City Blues: A Charlotte Justice Novel, Stormy Weather: A Charlotte Justice Novel

Short Stories:

Allen, Angela – Dark Thirst

Austin, Doris Jean – Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience
 
Briscoe, Connie – You Only Get Better

Bell, Derrick – And We Are Not Saved, Faces at the Bottom of the Well, Gospel Choirs

Cooper, J. California – Future Has a Past: Stories, Homemade Love, Matter Is Life, Piece of Mine, Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime, Some Soul to Keep

Dance, Daryl Cumber – Honey Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor

Datcher, Michael – Raising Fences
 
Glasrud, Bruce – The African American West: A Century of Short Stories

Guitard, S. James – Chocolate Thoughts: Short Stories, Essays and Poetry from the Hearts and Minds of Real Black Men

Harris, E. Lynn, et al – Got to Be Real: Four Original Love Stories

Harris, Juliette (Editor ) – Tenderheaded: A Comb Bending Collection of Hair Stories
 
Hopkinson, Nalo – Mojo: Conjure Stories

Knopf, Marcy – The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women

Lincoln, Christine – Sap Rising

Major, Clarence – Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African American Short Stories

Massey, Brandon – Dark Dreams: A Collection of Horror and Suspense by Black Writers

Naylor, Gloria – Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to Present

Packer, Z.Z. – Drinking Coffe Elsewhere

Price-Thompson, Tracy – Proverbs for the People

Thomas, Brenda – Kiss the Year Goodbye

Thomas Jacquelin – Have a Little Faith

Turner, Nikki – Nikki Turner Presents Street Chronicles: Girls in the Game

Washington, Mary Helen – Memory of Kin: Stories about Family by Black Writers

Zane – Chocolate Flava: The Eroticnoir.com Anthology