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Donald Goines
Full Series List in Order
Kenyatta
1 - Crime Partners (1974)2 - Cry Revenge (1974)
3 - Death List (1974)
4 - Kenyatta's Escape (1974)
5 - Kenyatta's Last Hit (Jun-1975)
Book List in Order: 17 titles
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Black Gangster
- 1972
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This is the story of the shocking underworld of black organised crime and the fledgling black 'godfather' who goes from teenage ganglord to powerful Detroit mobster. Like the gangsters of the 1920s, Prince begins with bootlegging and branches out int...
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Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp
- 1972
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From one of the most revolutionary writers of the 20th century, the uncensored and gritty novel that inspired today’s street lit and hip hop culture.
“After my ninth birthday I began to really understand the meaning of my name. I began to... -
Black Girl Lost
- 1973
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"In this shocking novel of a young girl alone on the streets, godfather of urban lit Donald Goines delves into yet another facet of the ghetto experience—the dark, despair-ridden world of a black girl’s soul!
Sandra took to the st... -
Street Players
- 1973
- / Action Adventure
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In this, his fourth novel, Goines tests the tensile strength of a ghetto spawn who clawed his way to the top and fights like hell to stay there. He's known as "Earl the Black Pearl," and he's left the homeboys behind -- way behind. He's cool, sharp a...
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White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief
- 1973
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Goines' classic novel of prison life, it has been called "one of the most revealing books ever written about prison life and bigotry built into our system." This is the story of Chester Hines, who thought he was the baddest man to come down the stree...
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Cry Revenge
- 1974
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Young Curtis Carson doesn’t mean to rip off the Chicanos in his backyard crap games. He just rolls the dice better. But the Chicanos don’t see it that way, and when one of their brothers is brutally slaughtered in a barroom shootout because of Cu...
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Daddy Cool
- 1974
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Goines, a career criminal and addict who took up writing during one of his seven prison sentences, has never been more hard-boiled that he is in this almost Shakespearean revenge fantasy about a hit man whose icy heart melts when his beloved daughter...
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Eldorado Red
- 1974
- / Action Adventure
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"""The voice of the ghetto itself."" —The Village Voice
A fistful of revenge, street-style, from Donald Goines, the godfather of urban lit. . .
Eldorado Red has it all—new cars, women, and plenty of money. But when you''re... -
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Kenyatta's Escape
- 1974
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Kenyatta had two ambitions: cleaning the ghetto of all drug traffic and gunning down all the racist white cops! But a black and white detective team, Benson and Ryan, is on his tail and has discovered the location of his army's camp. Armed with tanks...
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Never Die Alone
- 1974
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King David never let anything stand in his way, as he clawed his way out of the mean streets. If it took busting an old lady’s head open with a Coke bottle for her last dollar, so be it. Mixing battery acid with cocaine to gain revenge was acce...
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Crime Partners
- 1974
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Goines' powerful first novel lays bare the bloody, brutal world of crime in the black ghetto, where, as Goines put it, "kindness was the sweetest con of all." Here is the gusty and often shocking world of Billy and Jackie, prison buddies on the stree...
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Death List
- 1974
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The unquestioned originator of urban lit, Donald Goines ups the reality factor with one of his most enduring characters…
Kenyatta has it good. He’s got the ladies, the clubs, the guns. The only problem is the shady dealers who are running... -
Inner City Hoodlum
- 1975
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Johnny Washington, a black teenager in Los Angeles, knows the freight yard like the back of his hand. He and his pals, Josh and Buddy, hit them often, stealing for a fence. They have to. They're the soul support of their families. But when Josh is ki...
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Kenyatta's Last Hit
- Jun-1975
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“The voice of the ghetto itself.” —The Village Voice
The godfather of urban lit is back with the graphic, thrilling conclusion to Kenyatta’s quest to reclaim his streets…
For Kenyatta, the living u... -
The Last Black Activist
- Nov-2007
- / General Fiction
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As a teenager, Foxx made the tragic mistake of experimenting with drugs. By the time Foxx became an adult, he was consumed with a habit and greed. Unfortunately, his inability to make the right decisions allowed his friends in the underworld to lead ...
