*Note: There may be some nonfiction and autobiographical material listed here as well.
I. AFRICAN AMERICANS
II. ASIAN AMERICANS
III. EUROPEAN AMERICANS
IV. HISPANIC AMERICANS
V. MULTIETHNIC
VI. NATIVE AMERICANS
VII. WOMEN
VIII. MISCELLANEOUS
19TH CENTURY:
Douglass, Frederick Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
Jacobs, Harriet Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery
20TH CENTURY:
Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Brown, Claude Manchild in the Promised Land
Davids, Jay, ed. Growing Up Black
Gaines, Ernest The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Himes, Chester If He Hollers Let Him Go
Hunter, Latoya My First Year in Junior High School
Johnson, Charles Middle Passage, Oxherding Tales
Kotlowitz, Alex There Are No Children Here
McMillan, Terry, ed. Breaking Ice
Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Marshall, Paule Praise Song for the Widow, Proud Shoes
Moody, Anne Coming of Age in Mississippi
Morrison, Toni Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby
Petry, Ann The Street
Rosengarten, Theodore All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
Walker, Alice The Color Purple
Wier, Sayde A Black Businessman in White Mississippi
Wright, Richard Black Boy
CHINESE:
Chin, Frank Donald Duk
Chu, Louis Eat a Bowl of Tea
Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior: Memories of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Lai, Him Mark, ed. Island
Lee, Gus China Boy
McCunn A Thousand Pieces of Gold
Nee, Victor Longtime Californ'
Tan, Amy Joy Luck Club
Wong, Jade Snow Fifth Chinese Daughter
FILIPINOS:
Bulason, Carlos America is in the Heart
HAWAIIANS:
Trask, Haunanh K. From A Native Daughter
INDIANS:
Mukherjee, Bharati The Middleman and Other Stories
JAPANESE:
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki Farewell to Mazanar
Kogawa, Joy Obasan
Minatoya, Lydia Talking to High Monks in the Snow
Okada, John No-No Boy
Sone, Monica Nisei Daughter
KOREANS:
Ronyoung, Kim Clay Walls
VIETNAMESE:
Hayslip, Le Ly When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
EASTERN EUROPEANS:
Bell, Thomas Out of This Furnace
ITALIANS:
Mangionne, Jerre Mount Alegro
JEWS:
Antin, Mary Promised Land
Cahan The Rise of David Levinsky
Gold, Mike Jews Without Money
Roth, Henry Call It Sleep
Tax, Meredith Rivington Street
Yezierska, Anzia Bread Givers
POLES:
Hoffman, Eva Lost in Translation
CUBANS:
Garcia, Cristina Dreaming in Cuban
MEXICANS:
Anaya, Rudolfo Bless Me Ultima
Barrio, Raymond The Plum Plum Pickers
Cisneros, Sandra The House on Mango Street
Galarza, Ernesto Barrio Boy
Lopez de la Cruz, Jesse in Kerber, ed.(?) Women's America
Navarrette, Ruben Jr. A Darker Shade of Crimson: Odyssey of a Harvard Chicano
Rodriguez, Richard Hunger of Memory
Villarreal, Jose Antonio Pocho
PUERTO RICANS:
Santiago, Esmeralda When I Was Puerto Rican
Katzman, David, and Tutle, William, eds. Plain Folk
Perkins and Perkins, eds.(?) Stories of the American Experience
Black Elk Speaks
Broker, Ignatia Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative
Crow Dog, Mary Lakota Woman
Deloria, Ella Cara Waterlily
Eastman, Charles (Ohiyesa) From the Deep Woods to Civilization
Erdrich, Louise Tracks, Love Medicine
Harrison, Jim Dalva
Hillerman, Tony Dance of the Dead and Skinwalkers
Hogan, Linda Mean Spirit
Lurie, Nancy O. Mountain Wolf Woman
Momaday, N. Scott The Way to Rainy Mountain, House Made of Dawn
Nabakov, Peter Two-Leggins: The Making of a Crow Warrior, Pretty Shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows
Qoyawayma, Polingaysi No Turning Back: A Hopi Woman's Stuggle to Live in Two Worlds
Riley, Patricia, ed. Growing Up Native American
Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony
Spanbauer, Tom The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
Standing Bear, Luther My People, The Sioux
Stein, Leo, ed. Fragments of Autobiography
Underhill, Ruth The Autobiography of a Papago Woman
Welsh, James Fools Crow
Zitkala-sa American Indian Stories
Alcott, Louisa May An Oldfashioned Girl, Work
Alther, Lisa Original Sin
Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Arnow, Harriet The Dollmaker
Brown, Rita Mae In Her Day
Cather, Willa My Antonia, O Pioneers
Chopin, Kate The Awakening
Davis, Thulani 1959
Erdich, Louise The Beet Queen
Ferber, Edna Roast Beef Medium, Emma McChesney and Co.
Fern, Fanny Ruth Hall
French, Marilyn The Women's Room
Gibbons, Kaye Charms for the Easy Life, Ellen Foster, A Virtuous Woman, A Cure for Dreams
Gilman, Charlotte P. Herland, The Yellow Wallpaper
Harper, Frances W. Iola Leroy
Harrison, Jim Dalva
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlett Letter
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janeway, Elizabeth Daisy Kenyon
Jewett, Sarah, Orne A Country Doctor
Jong, Erica Fear of Flying
Larsen, Nella Quicksand, Passing
Lee, Harper To Kill A Mockingbird
McCarthy, Mary The Group
Malkiel, Theresa Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker
Marshall, Paule Brown Girl, Brownstones
Miller, Susan The Good Mother
Mitchell, Margaret Gone With the Wind
Morrison, Toni Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby
Naylor, Gloria The Women of Brewster Place, Mama Day, Bailey's Cafe
Peattie, Elia The Precipice
Petry, Ann The Street
Phelps, Elizabeth S. The Silent Partner, Story of Avis
Piercy, Marge Woman on the Edge of Time, He, She and It
Rawson, Susannah Charlotte Temple
Richardson, Dorthy The Long Day
Sarton, May The Education of Harriet Hatfield
Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony
Smedley, Agnes Daughter of the Earth
Smiley, Jane A Thousand Acres, Duplicate Keys
Tax, Meredith Rivington Street
Walker, Alice Meridian, The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth
Williams, Sherley Dessa Rose
Wilson, Harriet Our Nig (autobio?)
Yerzika, Anzia Arrogant Beggar, The Bread Givers, Hungry Hearts (short stories), The Open Cage (short stories)
19TH CENTURY:
Dana, Richard Henry Two Years Before the Mast
Twain, Mark Puddn'head Wilson
20TH CENTURY:
Greene, Graham The Quiet American
Jewett, Sarah Orne A Country Doctor
Lewis, Sinclair Arrowsmith
O'Connor, Edwin The Last Hurrah
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