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Omaha Picks: Fiction for Black Lives Matter

Reading fiction has been shown to increase empathy and understanding of other people's lives. If you need a break from non-fiction, check out one of these titles as a way to grow your knowledge of the Black experience.

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  • BookNew York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2017. — FICTION Ward 2017
  • BookFICTION Morrison 1987
  • BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. — FICTION Beatty 2015
  • BookNew York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2015. — FICTION Ross 2015
  • BookNew York : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019] — FICTION Washington 2019
  • BookChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018. — FICTION Jones 2018
  • BookNew York : Random House, c1999. — FICTION Ellison
  • BookNew York : Penguin Press, ©2005. — FICTION Smith 2005
  • BookNew York : Viking, [2017] — FICTION Clemmons 2017
  • BookNew York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — FICTION Colvin 2019
  • BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. — FICTION Edugyan 2018