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Black American Books
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.98 — 492,397 ratings — published 1987
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.99 — 387,744 ratings — published 1937
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.40 — 367,517 ratings — published 2015
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.28 — 754,227 ratings — published 1982
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.31 — 273,172 ratings — published 1979
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 302,852 ratings — published 1970
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 446,443 ratings — published 2016
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 202,403 ratings — published 1952
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.12 — 858,342 ratings — published 2020
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.34 — 256,106 ratings — published 1956
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.30 — 583,137 ratings — published 1969
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 12 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.55 — 122,067 ratings — published 1963
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,014,860 ratings — published 2017
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.05 — 124,706 ratings — published 1973
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.85 — 111,030 ratings — published 1959
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,822 ratings — published 1940
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.25 — 309,473 ratings — published 2019
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.00 — 148,948 ratings — published 2017
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.19 — 266,125 ratings — published 1993
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.77 — 577,703 ratings — published 2019
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 135,365 ratings — published 1845
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.15 — 93,230 ratings — published 2014
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.05 — 82,435 ratings — published 1953
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 80,930 ratings — published 1929
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.47 — 405,336 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,583 ratings — published 2010
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.91 — 323,461 ratings — published 2023
Erasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.17 — 32,276 ratings — published 2001
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.37 — 292,154 ratings — published 1965
March: Book One (March, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.35 — 57,372 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 — 117,386 ratings — published 2010
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.16 — 128,049 ratings — published 1977
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.17 — 58,168 ratings — published 1861
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.11 — 93,395 ratings — published 2023
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.96 — 73,643 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 — 63,509 ratings — published 2020
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.36 — 24,419 ratings — published 1955
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.40 — 23,947 ratings — published 1982
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,695 ratings — published 1981
If Beale Street Could Talk (Vintage International)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.27 — 82,503 ratings — published 1974
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,024 ratings — published 2014
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 806,910 ratings — published 2010
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,029,097 ratings — published 2009
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.45 — 164,963 ratings — published 1976
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 4.41 — 5,007 ratings — published 2019
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.32 — 120,231 ratings — published 2022
Let Us Descend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as black-american)
avg rating 3.69 — 37,926 ratings — published 2023
Another Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.30 — 34,600 ratings — published 1962
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,296 ratings — published 2020
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as black-american)
avg rating 4.51 — 41,907 ratings — published 2021
