Books by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room (1956)
Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself ca...

No Name in the Street (1986)
The author reveals his personal response to American racism and offers a new statement on the presen...

Another Country (1993)
Eight people become entangled in a web of interpersonal relationships, doomed to become as savage an...

If Beale Street Could Talk (2006)
When a pregnant Tish's boyfriend Fonny, a sculptor, is wrongfully jailed for the rape of a Puerto Ri...

Notes of a Native Son (1984)
Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's first nonfiction book has become a classic. These sear...

Blues for Mister Charlie (1964)
A drama focusing on the murder of a black youth by a white man in a Southern town and the racism and...

Go tell it on the mountain : [a novel] (1985)
This novel of Black life in America is written with an impartial attitude...