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
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSo Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
African Fiction
604 books — 433 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)
384 books — 301 voters

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
Bitch Planet, Vol. 1 by Kelly Sue DeConnickThe Girl Who Married a Skull by Kel McDonaldGoldie Vance Vol. 1 by Hope LarsonParable of the Sower by Damian DuffyUpgrade Soul by Ezra Claytan Daniels
Humble Book Bundle: Be the Change
82 books — 4 voters


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

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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