Brent's votes on the list Best African American Books

Listopia > Brent's votes on the list Best African American Books (46 Books)

1	Cane by Jean Toomer 3.82 avg rating — 11,509 ratings Brent rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles by W.E.B. Du Bois 4.37 avg rating — 362 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Readings in Black American Music by Eileen Southern (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Black Folktales by Julius Lester 4.02 avg rating — 158 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Black Southern Voices: An Anthology by John Oliver Killens (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The Angela Y. Davis Reader by Angela Y. Davis 4.49 avg rating — 252 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle by Clayborne Carson (Editor) 4.43 avg rating — 291 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Richard Wright: The Library of America Unexpurgated Edition: Native Son / Uncle Tom's Children / Black Boy / and more by Richard Wright 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry by Camille T. Dungy (Editor) 4.60 avg rating — 483 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Strange Fruit, Volume II: More Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History by Joel Christian Gill (Goodreads Author) 4.42 avg rating — 335 ratings Brent rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars by Erin Sharkey (Editor) 4.27 avg rating — 280 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Ain't But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story by Willard Jenkins (Editor) 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women's Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century by Janet Dewart Bell really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings by Zora Neale Hurston 4.34 avg rating — 259 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Zora Neale Hurston: Novels & Stories by Zora Neale Hurston 4.37 avg rating — 628 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Arnold Rampersad 4.36 avg rating — 18,206 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Selected Poems by Langston Hughes 4.31 avg rating — 8,372 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Short Stories by Langston Hughes 4.36 avg rating — 706 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Collected Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt by Charles W. Chesnutt 3.73 avg rating — 26 ratings Brent added it to currently-reading See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Charles W. Chesnutt: Stories, Novels, and Essays by Charles W. Chesnutt 4.12 avg rating — 56 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry by Jerry W. Ward Jr. 4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings Brent added it to currently-reading See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Annotated African American Folktales by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor) 4.55 avg rating — 156 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Hollis Robbins (Introduction) 4.40 avg rating — 62 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies) by Fannie Lou Hamer 4.51 avg rating — 49 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought by Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Editor) 4.47 avg rating — 948 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton 4.39 avg rating — 620 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Joanne M. Braxton 4.26 avg rating — 256 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	The Selected Poems, 1968-1995 by Nikki Giovanni 4.39 avg rating — 977 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Early Novels & Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin 4.47 avg rating — 832 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998 by Nikki Giovanni 4.41 avg rating — 1,694 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Bicycles by Nikki Giovanni 4.07 avg rating — 1,147 ratings Brent rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	March: Book One (March, #1) by John Lewis 4.35 avg rating — 57,114 ratings Brent rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	March: Book Two (March, #2) by John Lewis 4.48 avg rating — 29,056 ratings Brent rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward (Goodreads Author) 3.69 avg rating — 37,326 ratings Brent rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 147,987 ratings Brent rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee: A Novel (Brown Thrasher Books) by Raymond Andrews 4.54 avg rating — 24 ratings Brent rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Appalachee Red: A Novel (Brown Thrasher Books Ser.) by Raymond Andrews 4.14 avg rating — 59 ratings Brent rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Once Upon A Time in Atlanta - The Chattahoochee Review (Volume XVIII, Number 2) by Raymond Andrews (Witer) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating Brent rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	The Last Radio Baby by Raymond Andrews 3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings Brent added it to currently-reading See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange 4.29 avg rating — 34,590 ratings Brent rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Century Cycle by August Wilson 4.74 avg rating — 74 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Tallahassee (FL) by Althemese Barnes 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings Brent added it to currently-reading See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	The Blacker the Berry... by Wallace Thurman 3.93 avg rating — 2,995 ratings Brent rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall 3.16 avg rating — 2,257 ratings Brent rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 304,000 ratings Brent rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis 4.38 avg rating — 2,419 ratings Brent rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars