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Short Story Collections Published By Black Americans in Decade: 1980s

  1. Homemade Love by J. California Cooper
  2. Some Soul to Keep by J. California Cooper
  3. Goodbye Sweetwater: New & Selected Stories by Henry Dumas
  4. The Amoralists & Other Tales: Collected Stories (Contemporary Fiction Series) by Cyrus Colter
  5. The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair by Percival Everett
  6. Fifth Sunday by Rita Dove
  7. A Piece of Mine: Stories by J. California Cooper
  8. Moustapha’s Eclipse by Reginald McKnight
  9. Jesus and Fat Tuesday: And Other Short Stories by Colleen J. McElroy
  10. Fever by John Edgar Wideman
  11. Damballah by John Edgar Wideman
  12. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Charles R. Johnson
  13. The Big Mama Stories by Shay Youngblood
  14. The Best of Simple: Stories by Langston Hughes
  15. The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
  16. Spunk: Selected Short Stories by Zora Neale Hurston
  17. The City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher by Rudolph Fisher
  18. Sarah Phillips by Andrea Lee