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The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 773,954 ratings — published 1982
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as black)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,703 ratings — published 2015
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as black)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,044,449 ratings — published 2017
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 295,781 ratings — published 1979
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as black)
avg rating 4.00 — 401,118 ratings — published 1937
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as black)
avg rating 4.14 — 324,949 ratings — published 1970
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as black)
avg rating 3.99 — 515,447 ratings — published 1987
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as black)
avg rating 4.37 — 300,333 ratings — published 1965
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as black)
avg rating 4.46 — 429,655 ratings — published 2016
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as black)
avg rating 4.30 — 598,946 ratings — published 1969
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,596 ratings — published 2010
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as black)
avg rating 4.55 — 130,539 ratings — published 1963
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as black)
avg rating 4.11 — 885,029 ratings — published 2020
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as black)
avg rating 4.18 — 299,198 ratings — published 1993
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 460,486 ratings — published 2016
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as black)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,016 ratings — published 1952
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as black)
avg rating 4.10 — 259,951 ratings — published 2018
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,017 ratings — published 1903
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 426,966 ratings — published 2013
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 79 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 203,870 ratings — published 2020
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as black)
avg rating 3.63 — 381,601 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 849,761 ratings — published 2016
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as black)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,246,000 ratings — published 2018
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 122,547 ratings — published 2010
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 88,195 ratings — published 1953
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 74 times as black)
avg rating 4.25 — 327,193 ratings — published 2019
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 355,183 ratings — published 2015
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as black)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,894 ratings — published 1940
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as black)
avg rating 4.12 — 104,453 ratings — published 2021
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as black)
avg rating 4.14 — 139,105 ratings — published 1845
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as black)
avg rating 3.91 — 86,532 ratings — published 1929
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,768 ratings — published 1984
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.25 — 273,946 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,072 ratings — published 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,801 ratings — published 2018
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as black)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,543 ratings — published 1987
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as black)
avg rating 4.34 — 303,676 ratings — published 1956
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as black)
avg rating 4.18 — 49,685 ratings — published 2020
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as black)
avg rating 3.75 — 426,883 ratings — published 1958
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 168,427 ratings — published 2020
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,827 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as black)
avg rating 3.77 — 589,734 ratings — published 2019
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 121,795 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 — 39,378 ratings — published 2016
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 3.97 — 239,650 ratings — published 2021
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,292 ratings — published 2020
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 146,067 ratings — published 2018
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 4.17 — 135,430 ratings — published 1977
“The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.”
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Black is not sad. Bright colors are what depresses me. They’re so… empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not.”
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