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The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 804 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.28 — 760,995 ratings — published 1982
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 792 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.99 — 392,605 ratings — published 1937
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 750 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.98 — 499,522 ratings — published 1987
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 651 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 309,514 ratings — published 1970
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 575 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.40 — 370,996 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 — 588,496 ratings — published 1969
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 533 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 451,082 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 529 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.31 — 281,227 ratings — published 1979
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 501 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,039 ratings — published 1952
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 473 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,024,785 ratings — published 2017
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 435 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,050,070 ratings — published 2009
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 435 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.16 — 130,726 ratings — published 1977
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 420 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.37 — 294,744 ratings — published 1965
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 400 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.12 — 868,792 ratings — published 2020
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 128,401 ratings — published 1973
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 375 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,654 ratings — published 1940
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 370 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.42 — 548,592 ratings — published 2024
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 367 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.55 — 125,209 ratings — published 1963
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 364 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 136,861 ratings — published 1845
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 360 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 84,350 ratings — published 1953
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 359 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 814,588 ratings — published 2010
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 358 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.47 — 413,524 ratings — published 2016
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 347 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.25 — 315,086 ratings — published 2019
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 347 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.48 — 119,149 ratings — published 2010
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 332 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 83,013 ratings — published 1929
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 329 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.93 — 391,007 ratings — published 2018
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 302 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,216,418 ratings — published 2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 295 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.00 — 150,135 ratings — published 2017
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,409 ratings — published 1903
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 274 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.15 — 93,905 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 — 118,738 ratings — published 2010
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 263 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.91 — 331,211 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 — 134,958 ratings — published 1996
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 248 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.19 — 276,908 ratings — published 1993
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.45 — 165,523 ratings — published 1976
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.34 — 269,284 ratings — published 1956
Black Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.09 — 56,249 ratings — published 1945
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 229 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.85 — 112,697 ratings — published 1959
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.27 — 85,193 ratings — published 1974
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 219 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.52 — 164,451 ratings — published 2020
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.18 — 58,794 ratings — published 1861
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.96 — 74,591 ratings — published 2011
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 209 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.23 — 125,738 ratings — published 1853
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 205 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.31 — 418,406 ratings — published 2013
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 244,552 ratings — published 1852
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
by (shelved 202 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.90 — 130,861 ratings — published 1976
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 120,251 ratings — published 2019
A Lesson Before Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.99 — 64,700 ratings — published 1993
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 187 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.91 — 38,894 ratings — published 1992
March: Book One (March, #1)
by (shelved 186 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.35 — 57,723 ratings — published 2013
“Put your hand over your heart and say aloud, “I am not alone.” Your ancestors walked before you and we, your sisters on this cosmic quest, walk with you.”
― African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy
― African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy
“Why, godamit, why did they insist upon confusing the class struggle with the ass struggle, debasing both us and them—all human motives?”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
