Name Change Welcome to BookDNA.com (formerly Shepherd.com)
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Kids
  • YA
  • 🥇 Best Books 2025
  • My Book DNA
  • Profile
  • Refer friends
  • 🐇 🕳️ ✨
  • Logout
Browse
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Kids
  • YA
  • Best Books 2025
  • My Book DNA
  • Home
  • For Authors
  • Our Story
  • Membership
Harlem Renaissance All Time Best All Time Best Trending New By Book DNA List by Experts

Harlem Renaissance

  • All Time Best
  • Trending
  • New
  • By Book DNA
  • List by Experts

The best nonfiction Harlem Renaissance books of all time

The books our community loved the most.

Nonfiction

Filter books

By Type
  • All Books
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
By Decade
  • 2020s
  • 2000s
By Age
  • Children
  • Middle school
  • Tween
  • Adult
  • By Type
    • All Books
    • Fiction
    • Nonfiction
  • By Decade
    • 2020s
    • 2000s
  • By Age
    • Children
    • Middle school
    • Tween
    • Adult
  • Related shelves
    • Black history
    • American history
    • Sports biographies
    • Autobiography
    • Biographies
    • Presidential biography
    • Jeffrey Dahmer
    • History
    • Historical fiction
    • European history
    • Modern history
    • Historical romance
    • Asian history
    • YA historical fiction
    • WW2 historical fiction
Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood
Loved by 3 people

Huck's Raft

By Steven Mintz ,

Book cover of Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston
Loved by 3 people

Jump at the Sun

By Alicia Williams , Jacqueline Alcántara (illustrator) ,

Book cover of Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
Loved by 3 people

Exquisite

By Suzanne Slade , Cozbi A. Cabrera (illustrator) ,

Book cover of Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon
Loved by 2 people

Dream Builder

By Kelly Starling Lyons , Laura Freeman (illustrator) ,

Book cover of Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy Satchel Paige
Loved by 2 people

If You Were Only White

By Donald Spivey ,

Book cover of If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy Satchel Paige
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
Loved by 2 people

Schomburg

By Carole Boston Weatherford , Eric Velasquez (illustrator) ,

Book cover of Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
Loved by 2 people

Wrapped in Rainbows

By Valerie Boyd ,

Book cover of Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song: A Library of America Anthology
Loved by 1 person

African American Poetry

By Kevin Young ,

Book cover of African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song: A Library of America Anthology
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era
Loved by 1 person

Black Culture and the New Deal

By Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff ,

Book cover of Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir
Loved by 1 person

Dust Tracks on a Road

By Zora Neale Hurston ,

Book cover of Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture
Loved by 1 person

Twisted

By Emma Dabiri ,

Book cover of Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists
Loved by 1 person

Creating Their Own Image

By Lisa E. Farrington ,

Book cover of Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
Loved by 1 person

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

By Zora Neale Hurston ,

Book cover of Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem
Loved by 1 person

The Conjure-Man Dies

By Rudolph Fisher ,

Book cover of The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop
Loved by 1 person

The Breakbeat Poets

By Kevin Coval (editor) , Quraysh Ali Lansana (editor) , Nate Marshall (editor)

Book cover of The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball's Forgotten Era
Loved by 1 person

The Black Fives

By Claude Johnson ,

Book cover of The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball's Forgotten Era
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
When Harlem Was in Vogue
Loved by 1 person

When Harlem Was in Vogue

By David Levering Lewis ,

Book cover of When Harlem Was in Vogue
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
On the Shoulders of Giants
Loved by 1 person

On the Shoulders of Giants

By Raymond Obstfeld , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ,

Book cover of On the Shoulders of Giants
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...

Copyright © 2026 - Bookdna.com

NLP Powered By Wikifier.org

Shepherd is a participant in the Bookshop.org and Amazon Associate Affiliate Programs. As a participant, we may earn from qualifying purchases made on those sites.

Discover
  • Discover The Best Books
  • Follow Our Development
About
  • Our Story
  • For Authors
  • Media Inquiries
  • Contact Us
  • Become Founding Member
  • Donate
Legal
  • Affiliate Disclosure
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Website Disclosure

Login

Create Account

Continue with Google

or

Forgot Password?
Continue with Google

or