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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as black)
avg rating 4.40 — 367,769 ratings — published 2015
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 754,581 ratings — published 1982
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as black)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,015,388 ratings — published 2017
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 273,521 ratings — published 1979
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 303,152 ratings — published 1970
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 114 times as black)
avg rating 3.98 — 492,706 ratings — published 1987
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as black)
avg rating 3.99 — 387,959 ratings — published 1937
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as black)
avg rating 4.37 — 292,261 ratings — published 1965
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as black)
avg rating 4.30 — 583,380 ratings — published 1969
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as black)
avg rating 4.47 — 405,696 ratings — published 2016
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as black)
avg rating 4.12 — 858,865 ratings — published 2020
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,635 ratings — published 2010
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 100 times as black)
avg rating 4.55 — 122,249 ratings — published 1963
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 446,664 ratings — published 2016
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as black)
avg rating 4.19 — 266,599 ratings — published 1993
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as black)
avg rating 3.92 — 202,489 ratings — published 1952
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,049 ratings — published 1903
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as black)
avg rating 4.11 — 251,599 ratings — published 2018
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 414,178 ratings — published 2013
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as black)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,202,651 ratings — published 2018
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as black)
avg rating 4.30 — 190,931 ratings — published 2020
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as black)
avg rating 4.49 — 810,902 ratings — published 2016
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 117,445 ratings — published 2010
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 101,034 ratings — published 2021
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as black)
avg rating 4.05 — 82,535 ratings — published 1953
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 69 times as black)
avg rating 4.25 — 309,794 ratings — published 2019
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 335,902 ratings — published 2015
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as black)
avg rating 3.64 — 355,244 ratings — published 2018
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as black)
avg rating 4.26 — 265,644 ratings — published 2019
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 135,447 ratings — published 1845
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,065 ratings — published 1984
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,865 ratings — published 1940
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,609 ratings — published 2019
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as black)
avg rating 4.60 — 31,555 ratings — published 1987
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,351 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,901 ratings — published 2018
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as black)
avg rating 3.92 — 81,029 ratings — published 1929
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 119,404 ratings — published 2019
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,780 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as black)
avg rating 3.77 — 577,939 ratings — published 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 162,236 ratings — published 2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,520 ratings — published 2016
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 3.75 — 414,046 ratings — published 1958
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 63,549 ratings — published 2020
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 142,464 ratings — published 2018
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as black)
avg rating 4.44 — 35,932 ratings — published 2015
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as black)
avg rating 4.34 — 256,695 ratings — published 1956
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as black)
avg rating 3.85 — 157,305 ratings — published 2019
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as black)
avg rating 3.78 — 208,027 ratings — published 2019
“the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.”
― The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate
― The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate
“It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful. ”
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