[By Howard Rambsy]

1996 – The White Boy Shuffle by
Paul Beatty is published. 

1996 – Oprah Winfrey starts “Oprah’s Book Club,” featuring book for
her viewers to read and discuss. 

1996 – Oprah’s Book Club features Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon (1977) in October.

1997 – Oprah’s Book Club features Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying (1993) in
September. 

1997 – Paradise by Toni
Morrison is published. 

1998  – Oprah’s Book Club
features Toni Morrison’s Paradise (1997)
in January. 

1998 – Kevin Rodney directs How
Stella Got Her Groove Back based on Terry McMillan. Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs,
and Whoopi Goldberg star in the film. 

1998 – Oprah’s Book Club features Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) in May.  

1999 – The Intuitionist by
Colson Whitehead is published. 

2000 – Oprah’s Book Club features Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) in April. 

2000 – The Coldest Winter
Ever by Sister Souljah is published. 

2001 – John Henry Days by
Colson Whitehead is published. 

2002 – Colson Whitehead receives a MacArthur Fellowship.

2002 – Oprah’s Book Club features Toni Morrison’s Sula (1973)  in April. 

2002
–
Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones is
published.

2003
– Getting
Mother’s Body by Suzan-Lori Parks is published.

2003
– Love
by Toni Morrison is published.

2003
– The
Known World by Edward P. Jones is published.

2004
– Edward Jones is awarded the National
Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in for The Known World (2003).

2007
– Apex
Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead is published.

2008
– A
Father’s Law by Richard Wright is posthumously published.        

2008
– A
Mercy by Toni Morrison is published.

     
           

2009
– Sag
Harbor by Colson Whitehead is published.

       

2011 – Zone One by Colson
Whitehead is published. 

2011 – Salvage the Bones by
Jesmyn Ward is published. 

[Related: Timeline Series—African American Novel History]