Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books

Books are a cornerstone of black culture. Charting over 200 years of tradition and turmoil, perseverance and triumphs, intelligence, horror and exquisite beauty, black literature rings with a remarkable people's vitality and passion, improvisational spirit and spiritual questing. 

Now, capturing the full sweep of writing from the Diaspora--from Africa to the Caribbean to America-- Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books celebrates the most influential works in this rich tradition, one of world literature's strongest forces.