Black Literature

Literature written by African Americans.

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Dominion
If I Ruled the World
People Like Us
How It Ends
The Two Lives of Sara
Small Worlds
In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black, #1)
Bones at the Crossroads (Blood at the Root, #2)
Zeal
Isaac's Song
Great Black Hope
The Man Who Lived Underground
Someone Like Us
See How They Run
Nightbloom
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Color Purple
Beloved
The Bluest Eye
Kindred
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Invisible Man
The Vanishing Half
The Underground Railroad
Between the World and Me
Giovanni’s Room
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Homegoing
Native Son
March by John             LewisMarch by John             LewisThe Harlem Hellfighters by Max BrooksIncognegro by Mat JohnsonThe Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long
African American Graphic Novels
144 books — 32 voters
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassRoots by Alex HaleyNoughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman12 Years a Slave by Solomon NorthupThe Collected Poems by Langston Hughes
The Great Black Read
44 books — 11 voters

Nightbloom by Peace Adzo MedieA spell of good things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀Hangman by Maya BinyamMaame by Jessica GeorgeRiver Spirit by Leila Aboulela
100 Notable African Books of 2023
101 books — 7 voters
Never My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiNever My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Voices (fiction)
385 books — 302 voters


your novels. the classic novels of a minutia. i have no interest in. pale. in comparison to the novels of my world. the novel of my mother. the novels of my grandparents. the articulate novels of how my people walk down a street. the novels i have been reading my whole life. — classic
Nayyirah Waheed, Nejma

Gwendolyn Brooks
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha

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