[Compiled By Kenton Rambsy]
The following list showcases novels in our “100 Novels Project” and their corresponding Wikipedia pages. Out of 100 novels in our project, 49 novels have Wikipedia pages of some sort.
We have organized the novels into three categories and by chronological order: Extensive, General, and Limited Overviews:
- Extensive overviews offer publication information, plot summaries, character lists, references to pop culture and criticism (such as TV, Movie adaptations, etc.) as well as major motifs.
- General overviews provide a general plot summary and, sometimes, historical information concerning the novel as well as critical reception.
- Limited overviews provide publication information and a short/concise summary of the novel.
Extensive Wikipedia Overviews
1900s
• The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) James Weldon Johnson
1940s
• Native Son (1940) Richard Wright
1950s
• Invisible Man (1952) Ralph Ellison
• Go Tell It on The Mountain (1953) James Baldwin
1980s
• The Color Purple (1982) Alice Walker
• Beloved (1987) Toni Morrison
General Wikipedia Overviews
1850s
• The Heroic Slave (1852) Frederick Douglass
• Clotel: or, the President’s Daughter (1853) William Wells Brown
1900s
• The Marrow of Tradition (1901) Charles Waddell Chesnutt 1920s
• Cane (1923) Jean Toomer
1930s
• Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) Zora Neale Hurston
1950s
• The Outsider (1953) Richard Wright
• Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) Paule Marshall
1970s• The Bluest Eye (1970) Toni Morrison
• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971) Ernest Gaines
• Mumbo Jumbo (1972) Ishmael Reed
• Sula (1974) Toni Morrison
• Dhalgren (1975) Samuel Delany
• Patternmaster (1976) Octavia Butler
• Roots (1976) Alex Haley
• Song of Solomon (1977) Toni Morrison
• Kindred (1979) Octavia Butler
1980s
• Annie John (1985) Jamaica Kincaid
1990s• Middle Passage (1990) Charles Johnson
• A Lesson Before Dying (1993) Ernest Gaines
• Parable of the Sower (1993) Octavia Butler
• Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) Edwidge Danticat
• The Coldest Winter Ever (1999) Sister Souljah
• The Intuitionist (1999) Colson Whitehead
2000s
• Apex Hides the Hurt (2006) Colson Whitehead
• Sag Harbor (2009) Colson Whitehead
Limited Wikipedia Overviews
1900s
1930s
• Not Without Laughter (1930) Langston Hughes
1940s
• If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945) Chester Himes
• The Street (1946) Ann Petry
1970s
• The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970) Alice Walker
• Meridian (1976) Alice Walker
1980s
• Tar Baby (1981) Toni Morrison• The Chaneysville Incident (1981) David Bradley
• Sent for You Yesterday (1983) John Edgar Wideman
1990s
• Jazz (1992) Toni Morrison
• Paradise (1997) Toni Morrison
• Parable of the Talents (1998) Octavia Butler
2000s
• John Henry Days (2001) Colson Whitehead
• The Known World (2003) Edward P. Jones
• Love (2003) Toni Morrison
• A Mercy (2008) Toni Morrison