The Essence Book Project
What Is The Essence Book Project?
The Essence Book Project is a computational database of Essence Magazine’s bestsellers’ list for fiction, which was published monthly from 1994-2010 and includes…
“The Essence Book Project addresses the complicated silences around African American literature published in the last thirty years.”
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