Stand the Storm
by Breena Clarke | 
The Chaneysville Incident
by David Bradley | 
Theory of War
by Joan Brady | 
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
by Ayana Mathis | 
Middle Passage
by Charles Johnson | 
The Revisioners
by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton | 
Mandingo
by Kyle Onstott |
Jubilee
by Margaret Walker | 
Corregidora
by Gayl Jones | 
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
by Ntozake Shange | 
They Tell Me of a Home
by Daniel Black | 
Juneteenth
by Ralph Ellison |
A Kind of Freedom
by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton | 
The Dean's Watch
by Elizabeth Goudge | 
Praisesong for the Widow
by Paule Marshall | 
The Kitchen House
by Kathleen Grissom | 
The Known World
by Edward P. Jones | 
The Book of Night Women
by Marlon James | 
The Last Runaway
by Tracy Chevalier | 
The Good Lord Bird
by James McBride |
With Price of a Child--the story of Ginnie Pryor (cook, mistress and servant to a Virginia planter) and her struggle with slavery in 1855--Cary continues has created a work that elevates the reputation she created with Black Ice, her memoir which won her comparisons to Maya Angelou and Richard Wright. In a novel that examines the price of freedom and the value of a child's life, Price of a Child is "a stunning achievement...a deeply engrossing story.... Cary's impeccable research and seamless narrative carry us along" (Philadelphia Inquirer).