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

Shout out to all the Black writers who push the world forward by sharing the stories, lives, history, imaginations and magic of black culture. We need you.
Blitberry

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

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