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Afro Books
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Americanah (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 412,854 ratings — published 2013
The Color Purple (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 752,625 ratings — published 1982
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 581,230 ratings — published 1969
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as afro)
avg rating 3.75 — 412,800 ratings — published 1958
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as afro)
avg rating 4.18 — 143,201 ratings — published 2003
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as afro)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,554 ratings — published 1981
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.98 — 490,871 ratings — published 1987
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as afro)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,012,084 ratings — published 2017
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 291,504 ratings — published 1965
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 301,312 ratings — published 1970
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as afro)
avg rating 4.49 — 807,541 ratings — published 2016
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 253,033 ratings — published 1956
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 183,623 ratings — published 2006
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 50,039 ratings — published 2008
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D. (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as afro)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,125 ratings — published 1971
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 263,645 ratings — published 1993
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as afro)
avg rating 4.47 — 403,459 ratings — published 2016
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 80,529 ratings — published 1929
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 445,213 ratings — published 2016
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 19,186 ratings — published 1952
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 81,758 ratings — published 1953
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 366,662 ratings — published 2015
If Beale Street Could Talk (Vintage International)
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avg rating 4.27 — 81,926 ratings — published 1974
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 44,941 ratings — published 1903
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 5 times as afro)
avg rating 4.55 — 121,247 ratings — published 1963
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as afro)
avg rating 3.99 — 386,714 ratings — published 1937
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 136,364 ratings — published 1999
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 119,459 ratings — published 2019
Freshwater (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 36,651 ratings — published 2018
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as afro)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,198 ratings — published 1981
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as afro)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,036 ratings — published 1961
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as afro)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,547 ratings — published 1974
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 10,105 ratings — published 1933
Invisible Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 202,077 ratings — published 1952
The Collected Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 18,221 ratings — published 1994
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 32,455 ratings — published 1961
White Teeth (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 175,048 ratings — published 2000
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 15,540 ratings — published 1986
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 134,961 ratings — published 1845
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
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avg rating 4.32 — 84,446 ratings — published 1998
Nations nègres et culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 114 ratings — published 1995
Another Country (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 34,431 ratings — published 1962
Open Water (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 88,933 ratings — published 2021
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 264,688 ratings — published 2019
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 100,987 ratings — published 2017
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 65,975 ratings — published 2017
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 161,531 ratings — published 2020
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