Black Literature

Literature written by African Americans.

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The Seven Daughters of Dupree
Dominion
If I Ruled the World
People Like Us
How It Ends
Small Worlds
Isaac's Song
Zeal
Someone Like Us
Skin & Bones
Where Wild Peaches Grow
In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black, #1)
Neighbors and Other Stories
Great Black Hope
People of Means
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
The Hate U Give
Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts by Juda BennettBreaking the Bias of English by Vivian ProbstFiction And Folklore by Trudier HarrisJames Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male... by Aaron Ngozi OforleaBridging the Americas by Stelamaris Coser
Examinations of Black Literature
7 books — 2 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

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
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)
378 books — 254 voters



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

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

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