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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,347 ratings — published 2015
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.99 — 394,533 ratings — published 1937
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.98 — 502,788 ratings — published 1987
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.28 — 763,773 ratings — published 1982
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.31 — 284,025 ratings — published 1979
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 452,934 ratings — published 2016
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,747 ratings — published 1952
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.12 — 872,495 ratings — published 2020
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 13 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.55 — 126,347 ratings — published 1963
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.34 — 274,700 ratings — published 1956
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.14 — 312,120 ratings — published 1970
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,028,959 ratings — published 2017
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.85 — 113,401 ratings — published 1959
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.30 — 590,865 ratings — published 1969
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 129,838 ratings — published 1973
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,409 ratings — published 1940
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.25 — 317,305 ratings — published 2019
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.00 — 150,664 ratings — published 2017
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,243 ratings — published 1993
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.77 — 583,938 ratings — published 2019
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 83,768 ratings — published 1929
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.47 — 416,830 ratings — published 2016
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,358 ratings — published 1845
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.15 — 94,170 ratings — published 2014
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 85,103 ratings — published 1953
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,164 ratings — published 2010
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.91 — 333,962 ratings — published 2023
Erasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.16 — 34,293 ratings — published 2001
March: Book One (March, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.35 — 57,846 ratings — published 2013
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.48 — 119,909 ratings — published 2010
Let Us Descend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.69 — 38,887 ratings — published 2023
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,455 ratings — published 2020
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.11 — 100,222 ratings — published 2023
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.96 — 74,945 ratings — published 2011
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.35 — 65,042 ratings — published 2020
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.36 — 25,230 ratings — published 1955
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.93 — 393,237 ratings — published 2018
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.37 — 295,926 ratings — published 1965
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,482 ratings — published 1982
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,734 ratings — published 1981
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.27 — 86,114 ratings — published 1974
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,644 ratings — published 2014
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,945 ratings — published 1984
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 817,998 ratings — published 2010
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.16 — 131,799 ratings — published 1977
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,023 ratings — published 1861
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.40 — 5,168 ratings — published 2019
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.32 — 130,622 ratings — published 2022
Another Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.30 — 35,917 ratings — published 1962
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.50 — 43,098 ratings — published 2021
