Chester Himes

55 books

All Shot Up by Chester Himes

All Shot Up

Harlem Cycle #5

Chester Himes

fiction crime mystery mysterious fast-paced

192 pages | first published 1960

The Big Gold Dream by Chester Himes

The Big Gold Dream

Harlem Cycle #4

Chester Himes

fiction crime mystery dark mysterious sad fast-paced

156 pages | first published 1959

Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers by Gary Phillips, Walter Mosley, Paula L. Woods, Charles W. Chesnutt, Gar Anthony Haywood, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Eleanor Taylor Bland, Rudolph Fisher, Otto Penzler, Edward P. Jones, Ann Petry, George S. Schuyler, Robert Greer, Hughes Allison, Chester Himes

Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers

Gary Phillips, Walter Mosley, Paula L. Woods, Charles W. Chesnutt, Gar Anthony Haywood, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Eleanor Taylor Bland, Rudolph Fisher, Otto Penzler, Edward P. Jones, Ann Petry, George S. Schuyler, Robert Greer, Hughes Allison, Chester Himes

fiction crime mystery short stories mysterious slow-paced

336 pages | first published 2009

The Collected Stories of Chester Himes by Calvin Hernton, Chester Himes

The Collected Stories of Chester Himes

Calvin Hernton, Chester Himes

fiction crime short stories mysterious slow-paced

428 pages | first published 1991

Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes

Cotton Comes to Harlem

Harlem Cycle #7

Chester Himes

fiction crime mystery mysterious fast-paced

160 pages | first published 1964

The Crazy Kill by Chester Himes

The Crazy Kill

Harlem Cycle #3

Chester Himes

fiction crime mystery dark mysterious medium-paced

160 pages | first published 1959

Dreaming Out Loud: African American Novelists at Work by Horace A. Porter

Dreaming Out Loud: African American Novelists at Work

Horace A. Porter with Langston Hughes (Contributor), John Edgar Wideman (Contributor), James Baldwin (Contributor), Zora Neale Hurston (Contributor), Richard Wright (Contributor), Martha Southgate (Contributor), Ishmael Reed (Contributor), Walter Mosley (Contributor), Charles Johnson (Contributor), Ernest J. Gaines (Contributor), James Weldon Johnson (Contributor), Arna Bontemps (Contributor), Alice Walker (Contributor), Margaret Walker (Contributor), James Alan McPherson (Contributor), Terry McMillan (Contributor), Toni Morrison (Contributor), Gayl Jones (Contributor), W.E.B. Du Bois (Contributor), Chester Himes (Contributor), Ralph Ellison (Contributor)

nonfiction essays informative medium-paced

240 pages | first published 2015

First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers by John Cheever, James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Nelson Algren, Alice Walker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Muriel Spark, Ursula K. Le Guin, Carson McCullers, Mark Helprin, Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Irwin Shaw, Mary McCarthy, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, David Leavitt, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, Kathy Kiernan, Doris Lessing, Alice Munro, John Updike, Harold Brodkey, Margaret Atwood, Jim Thompson, William Saroyan, Kurt Vonnegut, Eudora Welty, Jane Smiley, Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Bernard Malamud, Tennessee Williams, E.M. Forster, Flannery O'Connor, Shirley Jackson, Michael M. Moore, William Faulkner, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Chester Himes

First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers

John Cheever, James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Nelson Algren, Alice Walker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Muriel Spark, Ursula K. Le Guin, Carson McCullers, Mark Helprin, Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Irwin Shaw, Mary McCarthy, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, David Leavitt, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, Kathy Kiernan, Doris Lessing, Alice Munro, John Updike, Harold Brodkey, Margaret Atwood, Jim Thompson, William Saroyan, Kurt Vonnegut, Eudora Welty, Jane Smiley, Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Bernard Malamud, Tennessee Williams, E.M. Forster, Flannery O'Connor, Shirley Jackson, Michael M. Moore, William Faulkner, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Chester Himes

fiction short stories reflective medium-paced

452 pages | first published 1994

Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories by Robert Sampson, Paul Cain, John D. MacDonald, Elmore Leonard, Norbert Davis, Brett Halliday, Ross Macdonald, Margaret Maron, Evan Hunter, Jonathan Craig, Gil Brewer, Bill Pronzini, Frederick Nebel, James M. Cain, William Coe, Faye Kellerman, Jack Adrian, H.A. DeRosso, Lawrence Block, James Hannah, W.R. Burnett, James Reasoner, Jim Thompson, Leigh Brackett, Mickey Spillane, David Alexander, Benjamin Appel, Andrew Vachss, Michael Kerr, David Goodis, Raoul Whitfield, Ed Gorman, Helen Nielsen, Dashiell Hammett, Daniel Mainwaring, James Ellroy, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes

Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories

Robert Sampson, Paul Cain, John D. MacDonald, Elmore Leonard, Norbert Davis, Brett Halliday, Ross Macdonald, Margaret Maron, Evan Hunter, Jonathan Craig, Gil Brewer, Bill Pronzini, Frederick Nebel, James M. Cain, William Coe, Faye Kellerman, Jack Adrian, H.A. DeRosso, Lawrence Block, James Hannah, W.R. Burnett, James Reasoner, Jim Thompson, Leigh Brackett, Mickey Spillane, David Alexander, Benjamin Appel, Andrew Vachss, Michael Kerr, David Goodis, Raoul Whitfield, Ed Gorman, Helen Nielsen, Dashiell Hammett, Daniel Mainwaring, James Ellroy, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes

fiction crime mystery short stories mysterious fast-paced

544 pages | first published 1995

The Harlem Cycle Vol 3: Cotton Comes to Harlem; Blind Man with a Pistol; Plan B (Harlem Cycle, #7-9) by Lesley Himes, Chester Himes

The Harlem Cycle Vol 3: Cotton Comes to Harlem; Blind Man with a Pistol; Plan B (Harlem Cycle, #7-9)

Lesley Himes, Chester Himes

fiction crime dark slow-paced

512 pages | first published 1997