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Americanah (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 425,793 ratings — published 2013
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 425,675 ratings — published 1958
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 597,452 ratings — published 1969
The Color Purple (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 772,133 ratings — published 1982
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 150,777 ratings — published 2003
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as afro)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,663 ratings — published 1981
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,042,039 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 845,502 ratings — published 2016
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 297,940 ratings — published 1956
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 20,540 ratings — published 1952
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
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avg rating 4.55 — 129,834 ratings — published 1963
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 299,409 ratings — published 1965
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 321,961 ratings — published 1970
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 85,992 ratings — published 1929
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 192,197 ratings — published 2006
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 89,249 ratings — published 1974
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 34,864 ratings — published 1961
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 51,776 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 4.47 — 2,150 ratings — published 1971
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 296,067 ratings — published 1993
Homegoing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 427,454 ratings — published 2016
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
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avg rating 3.87 — 13,581 ratings — published 1961
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 458,983 ratings — published 2016
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 87,612 ratings — published 1953
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 375,816 ratings — published 2015
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 45,933 ratings — published 1903
Invisible Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 206,620 ratings — published 1952
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 400,094 ratings — published 1937
Nations nègres et culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 122 ratings — published 1995
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 152,602 ratings — published 1999
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 120,970 ratings — published 2019
Freshwater (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 38,111 ratings — published 2018
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 20,270 ratings — published 1981
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #2)
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avg rating 3.79 — 9,782 ratings — published 1964
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,573 ratings — published 1974
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 10,301 ratings — published 1933
The Collected Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 18,455 ratings — published 1994
White Teeth (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 180,485 ratings — published 2000
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 16,984 ratings — published 1986
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 138,619 ratings — published 1845
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
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avg rating 4.32 — 93,071 ratings — published 1998
Les impatientes (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 11,532 ratings — published 2017
Dream Count (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.76 — 54,472 ratings — published 2025
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
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avg rating 4.10 — 258,724 ratings — published 2018
Another Country (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 37,247 ratings — published 1962
Open Water (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 94,472 ratings — published 2021
“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
“DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked by. Her crispy hair twinkled in the summer sun as her big proud stomach moved her on down the block while I watched, not caring whether or not she was a poem.”
― Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
― Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
