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The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 804 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.28 — 760,880 ratings — published 1982
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 792 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.99 — 392,515 ratings — published 1937
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 750 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.98 — 499,366 ratings — published 1987
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 651 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 309,378 ratings — published 1970
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 575 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.40 — 370,941 ratings — published 2015
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 569 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.30 — 588,412 ratings — published 1969
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 534 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 450,998 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 529 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.31 — 281,099 ratings — published 1979
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 501 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,010 ratings — published 1952
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 473 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,024,606 ratings — published 2017
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 436 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,049,661 ratings — published 2009
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 435 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.16 — 130,680 ratings — published 1977
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 420 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.37 — 294,681 ratings — published 1965
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 400 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.12 — 868,622 ratings — published 2020
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 128,340 ratings — published 1973
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 375 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,626 ratings — published 1940
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 370 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.42 — 548,004 ratings — published 2024
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 367 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.55 — 125,159 ratings — published 1963
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 364 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 136,838 ratings — published 1845
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 360 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 84,329 ratings — published 1953
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 359 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.47 — 413,379 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 359 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 814,325 ratings — published 2010
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 348 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.25 — 314,993 ratings — published 2019
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 346 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.48 — 119,110 ratings — published 2010
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 332 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 82,985 ratings — published 1929
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 329 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.93 — 390,907 ratings — published 2018
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 302 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,216,142 ratings — published 2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 295 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.00 — 150,118 ratings — published 2017
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,403 ratings — published 1903
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 274 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.15 — 93,894 ratings — published 2014
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 274 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,723 ratings — published 2010
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 263 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.91 — 331,081 ratings — published 2023
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.15 — 134,943 ratings — published 1996
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 249 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.19 — 276,687 ratings — published 1993
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.45 — 165,511 ratings — published 1976
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.34 — 269,041 ratings — published 1956
Black Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.09 — 56,246 ratings — published 1945
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 229 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.85 — 112,666 ratings — published 1959
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.27 — 85,145 ratings — published 1974
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 219 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.52 — 164,412 ratings — published 2020
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.18 — 58,781 ratings — published 1861
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.96 — 74,575 ratings — published 2011
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 209 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.23 — 125,720 ratings — published 1853
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 205 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.31 — 418,329 ratings — published 2013
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 244,526 ratings — published 1852
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
by (shelved 202 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.90 — 130,848 ratings — published 1976
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 120,229 ratings — published 2019
A Lesson Before Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.99 — 64,688 ratings — published 1993
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 187 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.91 — 38,887 ratings — published 1992
March: Book One (March, #1)
by (shelved 186 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.35 — 57,721 ratings — published 2013
“Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.”
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“America is a young dumb country and it needs all kinds of help. America is a dumb puppy with big teeth that bite and hurt. And we take care of America. We hold America to our bosom; we feed America, we make love to America. There wouldn't be an America if it wasn't for black people. So you have some dedicated black Americans who will die a million deaths to save America. And this is home for us. We don't know really about Africa. We talk it in a romantic sense, but America is it. And so, America is always going to be okay as long as black people don't totally lose their mind, cause we'll pick up the pieces and turn it into a new dance.”
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