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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 591,450 ratings — published 1969
Americanah (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 420,664 ratings — published 2013
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 420,620 ratings — published 1958
The Color Purple (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 764,479 ratings — published 1982
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 147,765 ratings — published 2003
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 35,811 ratings — published 1981
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,030,207 ratings — published 2017
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 296,268 ratings — published 1965
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 312,741 ratings — published 1970
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 828,995 ratings — published 2016
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 83,962 ratings — published 1929
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 276,120 ratings — published 1956
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 188,552 ratings — published 2006
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 20,044 ratings — published 1952
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 51,087 ratings — published 2008
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D. (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.46 — 2,140 ratings — published 1971
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 282,358 ratings — published 1993
Homegoing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 417,633 ratings — published 2016
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 453,387 ratings — published 2016
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 85,310 ratings — published 1953
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 372,681 ratings — published 2015
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 86,383 ratings — published 1974
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 45,622 ratings — published 1903
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
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avg rating 4.55 — 126,587 ratings — published 1963
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 395,016 ratings — published 1937
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 146,043 ratings — published 1999
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 120,430 ratings — published 2019
Freshwater (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 37,536 ratings — published 2018
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 19,877 ratings — published 1981
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
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avg rating 3.87 — 13,368 ratings — published 1961
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,566 ratings — published 1974
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 10,225 ratings — published 1933
Invisible Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 204,917 ratings — published 1952
The Collected Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 18,317 ratings — published 1994
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 33,904 ratings — published 1961
White Teeth (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 178,088 ratings — published 2000
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 16,422 ratings — published 1986
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 137,450 ratings — published 1845
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
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avg rating 4.32 — 89,604 ratings — published 1998
Nations nègres et culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 120 ratings — published 1995
Another Country (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 36,019 ratings — published 1962
Open Water (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 92,471 ratings — published 2021
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.25 — 270,085 ratings — published 2019
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 101,720 ratings — published 2017
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 67,482 ratings — published 2017
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 165,568 ratings — published 2020
“It was black-black, so thick it drank two containers of relaxer at the salon, so full it took hours under the hooded dryer, and, when finally released from pink plastic rollers, sprang free and full, flowing down her back like a celebration. Her father called it a crown of glory.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“We can all agree that tea is good for the body. However, tea is very good for our hair too.”
― The Natural Hair Journal
― The Natural Hair Journal
