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The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.12 — 875,652 ratings — published 2020
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,033,227 ratings — published 2017
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.29 — 199,915 ratings — published 2020
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.47 — 419,822 ratings — published 2016
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.63 — 369,540 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.28 — 347,811 ratings — published 2015
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.19 — 285,140 ratings — published 1993
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.10 — 255,618 ratings — published 2018
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.31 — 286,859 ratings — published 1979
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.77 — 585,441 ratings — published 2019
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.99 — 505,904 ratings — published 1987
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 79 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.78 — 211,428 ratings — published 2019
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.97 — 231,022 ratings — published 2021
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.49 — 832,525 ratings — published 2016
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.31 — 421,739 ratings — published 2013
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,227,677 ratings — published 2018
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.28 — 766,240 ratings — published 1982
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.40 — 373,416 ratings — published 2015
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.99 — 396,214 ratings — published 1937
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.14 — 314,501 ratings — published 1970
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 63 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.99 — 112,316 ratings — published 2020
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.30 — 592,856 ratings — published 1969
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.32 — 133,069 ratings — published 2022
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.12 — 103,223 ratings — published 2021
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.93 — 395,175 ratings — published 2018
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.09 — 166,464 ratings — published 2020
The Other Black Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.35 — 84,166 ratings — published 2021
When No One Is Watching (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.46 — 118,622 ratings — published 2020
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.42 — 573,086 ratings — published 2024
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.35 — 65,368 ratings — published 2020
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.34 — 280,507 ratings — published 1956
Pet (Pet, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.13 — 35,146 ratings — published 2019
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.83 — 82,070 ratings — published 2015
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.84 — 158,995 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,568 ratings — published 2019
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.39 — 338,094 ratings — published 2012
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.83 — 80,070 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,498 ratings — published 2018
Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3)
by (shelved 49 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.07 — 103,112 ratings — published 2021
Cinderella Is Dead (ebook)
by (shelved 49 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.66 — 88,679 ratings — published 2020
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.25 — 270,802 ratings — published 2019
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.06 — 454,592 ratings — published 2016
This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2)
by (shelved 48 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.37 — 67,385 ratings — published 2024
The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.98 — 56,825 ratings — published 2020
The Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.77 — 41,699 ratings — published 2019
Ring Shout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.92 — 64,997 ratings — published 2020
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,457 ratings — published 2019
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 46 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.28 — 203,553 ratings — published 2016
Bloodmarked (The Legendborn Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.28 — 92,011 ratings — published 2022
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
by (shelved 44 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.33 — 173,337 ratings — published 2017
“Feeling like the phoenix.”
― My Quarter-of-a-Century Life Lessons:Building a Foundation for Success
― My Quarter-of-a-Century Life Lessons:Building a Foundation for Success
“[Art] must reflect the world in all its brutality and beauty, not in hopes of changing it but in the mean and selfish desire to not be enrolled in its lie, to not be coopted by the television dreams, to not ignore the great crimes all around us.”
― We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
― We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
