Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

The best-known work of a 19th century American black novelist, this book uses the conventions of the sentimental novel with the goal of effecting social change.

• Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self: The Givens Collection
• Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)
• The Late George Apley
• The Promised Land (Penguin Classics)
• Mystic River
• The Marrow of Tradition (Penguin Classics)
• Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly
• Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (Penguin Books for History: U.S.)
• The House of Mirth (Twentieth-Century Classics)
• Imperium in Imperio (Modern Library Classics)