African American Authors


The Bluest Eye
The Color Purple
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Beloved
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Vanishing Half
The Hate U Give
Between the World and Me
Invisible Man
Song of Solomon
Becoming
The Underground Railroad
Kindred
Hair Love
The Water Dancer
We Ain't the Brontes by Rosalyn McMillanThe Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. CarterDeath, Deceit & Some Smooth Jazz by Claudia Mair BurneyMy Soul to Keep by Tananarive DueDeep Fried Trouble by Tyora Moody
Author Support List
65 books — 19 voters
The Rage of Innocence by Kristin HenningIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann JacobsTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonWomanist Bioethics by Wylin D. WilsonKindred by Octavia E. Butler
Black women writers
320 books — 21 voters

Black Cake by Charmaine WilkersonTake My Hand by Dolen Perkins-ValdezWash Day Diaries by Jamila RowserHalf a Lion by Palle E.K. OswaldI'm So Not Over You by Kosoko Jackson
Books by Black Authors 2022
164 books — 55 voters


Abiola Abrams
Divine manifesting is collaboration with God/dess energy to mold our lives for the highest and best good of the collective. We are all manifesting our lives, albeit unconsciously for most people.
Abiola Abrams, African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy

Ralph Ellison
Such was the short bitter life of Brother Tod Clifton. Now he's in this box with the bolts tightened down. He's in the box and we're in there with him, and when I've told you this you can go. It's dark in this box and it's crowded. It has a cracked ceiling and a clogged-up toilet in the hall. It has rats and roaches, and it's far, far too expensive a dwelling. The air is bad and it'll be cold this winter. Tod Clifton is crowded and he needs the room. 'Tell them to get out of the box', that's wha ...more
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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