Black Fiction


The Bluest Eye
Homegoing
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Kindred
The Vanishing Half
Beloved
The Hate U Give
The Color Purple
Song of Solomon
An American Marriage
Americanah
Native Son
Queenie
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Invisible Man
Homegoing by Yaa GyasiAnother Brooklyn by Jacqueline WoodsonThe Queen of the Night by Alexander CheeYou Will Know Me by Megan AbbottNight Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Roxane Gay Recommends (2017)
56 books — 5 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerKindred by Octavia E. ButlerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBeloved by Toni MorrisonThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Best Black Historical Fiction
348 books — 338 voters

One Day You Will by Kristofer ClarkeDaisy Jones by Mack MamaProject Terror by Jamal LewisThe Take by L.   BrownA Butler Christmas by Rahiem Brooks
Black Literary Fiction
15 books — 13 voters

أحمد خالد توفيق
“ ..و الذي مازال يضحك ..لم يسمع بعد بالخبر الرهيب برتولت بريخت ”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا

Percival Everett
“ The fear of course is that in denying or refusing complicity in the marginalization of 'black' writers, I ended up on the very distant and very 'other' side of a line that is imaginary at best. I didn't write as an act of testimony or social indignation (though all writing in some way is just that) and I did not write out of a so-called family tradition of oral storytelling. I never tried to set anybody free, never tried to paint the next real and true picture of the life of my people, never had ...more ”
― Percival Everett, Erasure

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