Urban Fiction, or Street Lit, share the socio-economic realities and culture of its characters in a city landscape. Profanity, sex, and violence are usually explicit and it is common that authors of this genre draw upon their own past experiences to inform their stories. Here are several ways to easily find and check out urban fiction reading recommendations with your IndyPL library card.
1. Borrow e-books or downloadable audiobooks.
Browse urban fiction lists from OverDrive to find e-books and downloadable audiobooks. If you have never borrowed from Libby before, Libby directions and a Libby video tutorial are available, as well as OverDrive Support.
2. Make a selection from this list of urban fiction authors.
Ashley
Bianca
Mz. (Mz Biggs) Biggs
ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Anna Black
Mia Black
Nikki Brown
Tracy Brown
Ben Burgess Jr.
Latoya Chandler
Wahida Clark
Brandie Davis
De’nesha Diamond
Eric Jerome Dickey
Donald Goines
Treasure Hernandez
Trice Hickman
Honey
La Jill Hunt
India
Anna J.
3. Get reading recommendations from Library staff.
4. Use your Library card to login to Novelist Plus.
On Novelist Plus you’ll find reading recommendations, read-alikes, series lists, reviews, and lists of award-winning books. Browse the Novelist Plus Urban Fiction category.
5. Find a book discussion near you!
You are invited to join in one of our many in-person or online book discussions that take place several times each month. In our book discussion groups we read and talk about both fiction and non-fiction books. We express our opinions (both likes and dislikes!) with other avid readers in the city.
- Event: Adult Book Discussion at West Indianapolis
- Date & Time: Monday, January 12, 5:00pm
- Location: West Indianapolis Branch
- Description: This month, our book club will take on a unique format. You read whatever you want to, and then show up to talk about what you’ve read. Adults are invited to this free monthly book discussion program. We meet on the second Monday of the month.
- No Registration Required.
- Event: Virtual Author Talk: The Creative and Compassionate Art of Seeing Others Deeply with David Brooks
- Date & Time: Tuesday, January 13, 2:00pm
- Location: Online
- Description: Join us for a discussion with writer David Brooks on his newest book, in which he helps us ask essential questions: If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person’s story should you pay attention to?
- Register Here
- Event: Club de Lectura en Español
- Date & Time: Tuesday, January 13, 6:00pm
- Location: Online
- Description: Este será completamente en español. En el Club de Libro platicaremos sobre libros de ficción y no-ficción. Expresaremos nuestras opiniones (lo que nos gusta, lo que no nos gusta y encontraremos temas para abordar) con otros lectores en le ciudad.
- Register Here
Need help?
Need more help? Ask a Library staff member at any of our locations or call, text or email Ask-a-Librarian. Additionally, the Tinker Station helpline at (317) 275-4500 is also available. It is staffed by device experts who can answer questions about how to read, watch and listen on a PC, tablet or phone.