First published in Blackwood’s magazine as a three part serial in 1899 and published in 1902, Heart of Darkness centers on the experiences of protagon...
The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path (1841) was James Fenimore Cooper's last novel in his Leatherstocking Tales. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it t...
An Australian children's classic about life on a ranch around the same time of A Little Florida Lady, with a similarly plucky tomboy heroine. Also, li...
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a novel published in 1905. It was the second work in the Ku Klux Klan trilogy by Thomas Dixo...
The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden—1865–1900 is the first novel of Thomas Dixon's Reconstruction trilogy, and was followed by Th...
This is an account of a Jewish man's experiences during the beginning of WW1 in Palestine. From this book we learn that the Jews are very good, the Ch...
In 1876, Johnson Chestnut Whittaker another African American, was admitted to the academy. But one day he was discovered beaten, bound and unconscious...
Quicksand is a 1928 novel by Nella Larsen, a writer of the Harlem Renaissance. It focuses on Helga Crane, a mixed-race woman who is a schoolteacher in...
The story occurs in the southern American states of North and South Carolina a few years following the American Civil War. Rena Walden, a young woman...
Ramona is a American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. Set in Southern California after the Mexican–American War, it portrays the life of a mixed-r...
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around America. In The...
In this Asian/Canadian perspective on "foreignness," Marion (the protagonist) eventually leaves the cruelty of racial discrimination in Quebec and mov...
The Begum's Fortune also published as The Begum's Millions, is an 1879 novel by Jules Verne, with some utopian elements and other elements that seem c...
It provides a rare glimpse into the life of one of the most prominent African American educators and civil rights leaders of the late 19th and early 2...
The novel revolves around a racehorse named Silver Blaze, who goes missing on the eve of an important race, and the subsequent murder of its trainer....
The novel is set in a distant future, in which humanity has colonized the stars and formed a vast interstellar empire. The story follows the adventure...
"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, set in a small Southern town in the 1930s. The story follows the trial of a b...
Unflinchingly unveils the riveting account of his life as a former slave turned abolitionist leader. With a captivating voice that resonates with unwa...
What if the most racist poem ever written was actually a satirical masterpiece?
J. Clarence Edwards's "You Wobbly Wink-Eyed Little Wop" is one of the...
LibriVox volunteers bring you fifteen different readings of Mother Night, by James Weldon Johnson. This weekly poetry project (for the week of Feb 26...
The Congo is one of the best-known poems by American poet Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931). It was revolutionary in its use of sounds and rhythms — as sound...
The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The book, published in 1903, contains several...
