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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as black)
avg rating 4.40 — 370,079 ratings — published 2015
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 758,992 ratings — published 1982
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as black)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,021,553 ratings — published 2017
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 279,182 ratings — published 1979
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 307,498 ratings — published 1970
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as black)
avg rating 3.99 — 391,243 ratings — published 1937
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as black)
avg rating 3.98 — 497,311 ratings — published 1987
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as black)
avg rating 4.37 — 293,883 ratings — published 1965
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as black)
avg rating 4.30 — 586,861 ratings — published 1969
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as black)
avg rating 4.47 — 411,012 ratings — published 2016
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as black)
avg rating 4.12 — 865,897 ratings — published 2020
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,444 ratings — published 2010
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 100 times as black)
avg rating 4.55 — 124,389 ratings — published 1963
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 449,773 ratings — published 2016
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 94 times as black)
avg rating 4.19 — 273,632 ratings — published 1993
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as black)
avg rating 3.92 — 203,567 ratings — published 1952
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,324 ratings — published 1903
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as black)
avg rating 4.10 — 253,041 ratings — published 2018
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 417,041 ratings — published 2013
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as black)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,212,048 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as black)
avg rating 4.49 — 818,374 ratings — published 2016
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as black)
avg rating 4.29 — 194,838 ratings — published 2020
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 118,569 ratings — published 2010
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 83,822 ratings — published 1953
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 101,813 ratings — published 2021
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as black)
avg rating 3.64 — 360,525 ratings — published 2018
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 70 times as black)
avg rating 4.25 — 313,504 ratings — published 2019
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 340,266 ratings — published 2015
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as black)
avg rating 4.26 — 267,634 ratings — published 2019
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,507 ratings — published 1984
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as black)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,304 ratings — published 1940
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,991 ratings — published 2019
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 136,472 ratings — published 1845
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as black)
avg rating 3.92 — 82,414 ratings — published 1929
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as black)
avg rating 4.60 — 32,100 ratings — published 1987
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,129 ratings — published 2018
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,925 ratings — published 2020
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black)
avg rating 3.77 — 580,855 ratings — published 2019
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 119,983 ratings — published 2019
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as black)
avg rating 4.35 — 64,309 ratings — published 2020
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as black)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,027 ratings — published 2019
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as black)
avg rating 3.75 — 416,898 ratings — published 1958
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 143,234 ratings — published 2018
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,724 ratings — published 2016
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 163,767 ratings — published 2020
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 4.34 — 265,235 ratings — published 1956
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as black)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,487 ratings — published 2015
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as black)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,186 ratings — published 1981
“Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right – no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse. ”
― Lover Avenged
― Lover Avenged
“BLACK AND WHITE
I was born into
A religion of Light,
But with so many other
Religions and
Philosophies,
How do I know which
ONE
Is right?
Is it not
My birthright
To seek out the light?
To find Truth
After surveying all the proof,
Am I supposed
To love
Or fight?
And why do all those who
Try to guide me,
Always start by dividing
And multiplying me –
From what they consider
Wrong or right?
I thought,
There were no walls
For whoever beams truth and light.
And how can one speak on Light's behalf,
lf all they do
Is act black,
But talk WHITE?”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I was born into
A religion of Light,
But with so many other
Religions and
Philosophies,
How do I know which
ONE
Is right?
Is it not
My birthright
To seek out the light?
To find Truth
After surveying all the proof,
Am I supposed
To love
Or fight?
And why do all those who
Try to guide me,
Always start by dividing
And multiplying me –
From what they consider
Wrong or right?
I thought,
There were no walls
For whoever beams truth and light.
And how can one speak on Light's behalf,
lf all they do
Is act black,
But talk WHITE?”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
