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Between the World and Me
The Color Purple
The Hate U Give
Kindred
Beloved
The Bluest Eye
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Homegoing
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
The Vanishing Half
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
The Underground Railroad
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Go Fetch! by Shelly LaurenstonBeast by Pepper PaceThe Grunt 1 by Latrivia S. NelsonBeast Behaving Badly by Shelly LaurenstonDaddy's Game by Normandie Alleman
African American Lead: Romance
414 books — 151 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Books by Black Authors
915 books — 368 voters

The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister SouljahThe Cartel by Ashley  AntoinetteThe Cartel 2 by Ashley  AntoinetteThe Cartel 3 by Ashley  AntoinetteAddicted by Zane
The Hottest Urban Fiction
419 books — 473 voters
The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa LahiriThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriCutting for Stone by Abraham   Verghese
Immigrant Voices (fiction)
382 books — 258 voters

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryOne Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. SeussThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
A Kaleidoscope of Colors
2,430 books — 209 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XInvisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Best African American Books
1,053 books — 1,154 voters

Maya Angelou
The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Stephen Crane
When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands— But the scene is grey. ...more
Stephen Crane, The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

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