Urban Grit: A Guide to Street Lit

By Megan Honig

Offering more than 400 street-lit titles, this guide helps readers' advisors and other librarians to better understand the genre and collect and recommend titles ranging from romance and coming-of-age stories to action stories and erotica.

Street lit is also known to its enthusiastic readers as "urban fiction," "ghetto lit," "hip-hop lit," and "gangsta lit." No matter what it's called, it remains one of the most significant and increasingly popular forms of modern literature.

This text provides a much-needed resource guide to this vibrant genre. In this title, more than 400 entries appear in eleven chapters, each focusing on a different subgenre of street lit. The author has organized titles by popular subgenres and themes, such as prison life and urban erotica, to help librarians more easily identify read-alikes. Urban Grit: A Guide to Street Lit also contains practical tips on integrating these books into an existing collection or library program and meeting challenges that may arise in the process.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159158857X
• ISBN13: 9781591588573
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 10.0"