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

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.
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Octavia E. Butler
He moved uncomfortably. "Reading's too much trouble. Mr. Jennings said I was too stupid to learn anyway." "Who's Mr. Jennings?" "He's the schoolmaster." "Is he?" I shook my head in disgust. "He shouldn't be. Listen, do you think you're stupid?" "No." A small hesitant no. "But I read as good as Daddy does already. Why should I have to do more than that?" "You don't have to. You can stay just the way you are. Of course, that would give Mr. Jennings the satisfaction of thinking he was right about y ...more
Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

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