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The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 770,287 ratings — published 1982
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as black)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,108 ratings — published 2015
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as black)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,039,519 ratings — published 2017
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 291,568 ratings — published 1979
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as black)
avg rating 4.00 — 398,946 ratings — published 1937
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as black)
avg rating 4.14 — 319,180 ratings — published 1970
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as black)
avg rating 3.99 — 510,966 ratings — published 1987
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as black)
avg rating 4.37 — 298,613 ratings — published 1965
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as black)
avg rating 4.47 — 425,096 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,116 ratings — published 2010
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as black)
avg rating 4.30 — 595,986 ratings — published 1969
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 107 times as black)
avg rating 4.55 — 129,032 ratings — published 1963
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as black)
avg rating 4.11 — 880,414 ratings — published 2020
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as black)
avg rating 4.18 — 292,776 ratings — published 1993
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 457,516 ratings — published 2016
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as black)
avg rating 3.92 — 206,210 ratings — published 1952
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as black)
avg rating 4.10 — 257,463 ratings — published 2018
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,860 ratings — published 1903
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 424,436 ratings — published 2013
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as black)
avg rating 4.29 — 202,150 ratings — published 2020
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as black)
avg rating 3.63 — 374,899 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 841,461 ratings — published 2016
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 74 times as black)
avg rating 4.25 — 322,971 ratings — published 2019
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 351,692 ratings — published 2015
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 121,588 ratings — published 2010
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 87,019 ratings — published 1953
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as black)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,236,736 ratings — published 2018
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as black)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,473 ratings — published 1940
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as black)
avg rating 4.12 — 103,960 ratings — published 2021
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as black)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,321 ratings — published 1845
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as black)
avg rating 3.91 — 85,525 ratings — published 1929
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,479 ratings — published 1984
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.25 — 272,425 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,859 ratings — published 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,656 ratings — published 2018
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as black)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,218 ratings — published 1987
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as black)
avg rating 4.18 — 49,360 ratings — published 2020
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 4.34 — 291,945 ratings — published 1956
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 3.75 — 424,542 ratings — published 1958
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as black)
avg rating 3.77 — 587,826 ratings — published 2019
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as black)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,656 ratings — published 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 167,248 ratings — published 2020
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 121,316 ratings — published 2019
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,245 ratings — published 2016
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 4.35 — 65,889 ratings — published 2020
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 3.97 — 236,432 ratings — published 2021
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 145,412 ratings — published 2018
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 4.17 — 134,028 ratings — published 1977
“but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical
dilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the point
my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too beautiful to have thrown back on my face
my love is too sanctified to have thrown back on my face
my love is too magic to have thrown back on my face
my love is too saturday nite to have thrown back on my face
my love is too complicated to have thrown back on my face
my love is too music to have thrown back on my face”
― For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
dilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the point
my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too beautiful to have thrown back on my face
my love is too sanctified to have thrown back on my face
my love is too magic to have thrown back on my face
my love is too saturday nite to have thrown back on my face
my love is too complicated to have thrown back on my face
my love is too music to have thrown back on my face”
― For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
“And that is why I hate dogs."
" . . . woof."
--Sebastian and Ceiel”
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" . . . woof."
--Sebastian and Ceiel”
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