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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.00 — 402,483 ratings — published 1937
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,536 ratings — published 2015
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.99 — 518,137 ratings — published 1987
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.28 — 775,914 ratings — published 1982
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 462,343 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.31 — 297,971 ratings — published 1979
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.14 — 328,429 ratings — published 1970
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.11 — 887,670 ratings — published 2020
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,047,457 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,460 ratings — published 1952
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.30 — 600,643 ratings — published 1969
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,423 ratings — published 1963
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.05 — 108,117 ratings — published 1940
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.18 — 301,933 ratings — published 1993
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.46 — 432,095 ratings — published 2016
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.86 — 115,658 ratings — published 1959
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.34 — 309,322 ratings — published 1956
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.07 — 137,288 ratings — published 1973
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.77 — 590,735 ratings — published 2019
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 88,719 ratings — published 1953
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.25 — 329,313 ratings — published 2019
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,674 ratings — published 2017
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.93 — 403,970 ratings — published 2018
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.91 — 87,231 ratings — published 1929
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.14 — 139,842 ratings — published 1845
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.15 — 95,276 ratings — published 2014
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.37 — 301,438 ratings — published 1965
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.26 — 90,596 ratings — published 1974
March: Book One (March, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,449 ratings — published 2013
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.14 — 832,784 ratings — published 2010
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,842 ratings — published 2010
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.48 — 123,002 ratings — published 2010
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.90 — 344,722 ratings — published 2023
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.96 — 76,557 ratings — published 2011
Erasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.16 — 36,298 ratings — published 2001
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.05 — 34,359 ratings — published
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.41 — 25,081 ratings — published 1982
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.59 — 37,092 ratings — published 1981
The Good Lord Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.96 — 39,815 ratings — published 2013
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,922 ratings — published 1984
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.17 — 136,300 ratings — published 1977
The Message (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.49 — 46,373 ratings — published 2024
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.41 — 611,714 ratings — published 2024
Let Us Descend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.68 — 40,100 ratings — published 2023
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.18 — 49,951 ratings — published 2020
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.10 — 107,570 ratings — published 2023
The Other Black Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.35 — 84,721 ratings — published 2021
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,516 ratings — published 2020
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,208 ratings — published 2020
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.36 — 26,007 ratings — published 1955
