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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jamilah Horton (41 Lists)



A Deeper Love Inside by Sister Souljah
Anticipated Literary Reads for Readers of Color 2013
197 books — 544 voters
Soul Food by Adrian Miller
AfroEats: Food and Gastronomy Books From Authors of African Descent
44 books — 9 voters

W. E. B. Du Bois by W.E.B. Du Bois
Best Books about African Americans
39 books — 18 voters
All Our Names by Dinaw MengestuThe Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa MohamedThings I Should Have Told My Daughter by Pearl Cleage
However Long the Night, the Dawn Will Break: Forthcoming Books for 2014 by Authors of African Descent
79 books — 65 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
African American Literature 1900 to 1950
14 books — 8 voters
The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
2012's Best African American Literature
22 books — 5 voters

We Ain't the Brontes by Rosalyn McMillanThe Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. CarterThe Egyptian Philosophers by Molefi Kete AsanteWhy I Love Black Women by Michael Eric DysonMy Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
Author Support List
65 books — 19 voters
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz FanonThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonPhilosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey by Amy Jacques-Garvey
Philosophia Africana: Black Philosphers
69 books — 20 voters

Africana by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Black Caucus of the ALA Awards - Non-fiction
61 books — 12 voters
Farther Than I Meant To Go, Longer Than I Meant To Stay by Tiffany L. Warren
Stories from the Soul
54 books — 74 voters

Dutchman & The Slave by Amiri BarakaA Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
African American Plays
42 books — 32 voters
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
African American Comedy Fiction
18 books — 30 voters

Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime by J. California Cooper
Books by Black Authors That Don't Feature Slavery, Colonialism, Racism, or Poverty
192 books — 77 voters
Flyy Girl by Omar Tyree
2009 HOT STREET LIT
7 books — 17 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
Black Girls Write!
247 books — 84 voters
A Family Affair by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
African American books with great twists
62 books — 41 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Best Fiction and Memoirs by Authors of Color
428 books — 188 voters
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
Best of Octavia E. Butler
20 books — 50 voters

Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Women of Brewster Place by Gloria NaylorThe Known World by Edward P. Jones
Award-winning Black Fiction
51 books — 67 voters
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill CollinsSister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Black Feminist/Womanist Studies (nonfiction)
129 books — 108 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Africa and the Diaspora
150 books — 70 voters
Flyy Girl by Omar TyreeThe Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
Celena's Top Picks of ALL Genres
77 books — 68 voters

Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
2013 Adult Literary Reads From Authors of African Descent
94 books — 73 voters
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Caribbean/West Indian Diaspora Literature - Women (fiction)
205 books — 152 voters

Beloved by Toni Morrison
Contemporary Black Women's Literature
568 books — 233 voters
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonA Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine HansberryInvisible Man by Ralph Ellison
African American Books That Changed Our Lives
125 books — 171 voters

Roots by Alex Haley
Slavery
183 books — 115 voters
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
African American Science Fiction
263 books — 216 voters


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