Adult Literary Fiction Published By Black Americans in Decade: 1940s
- Black Ivory by Norman Collins
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- Uncle Tom’s Children by Richard Wright
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
- Blood on the Forge by William Attaway
- For My People by Margaret Walker
- The Case of Mrs Wingate by Oscar Micheaux
- If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester B. Himes
- The Street by Ann Petry
- The Living is Easy by Dorothy West
- Last of the Conquerors by William Gardner Smith
- Jule: A novel by George Wylie Henderson
- No Day of Triumph by J. Saunders Redding