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The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.11 — 885,047 ratings — published 2020
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,044,469 ratings — published 2017
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.28 — 203,872 ratings — published 2020
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.46 — 429,663 ratings — published 2016
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.18 — 299,207 ratings — published 1993
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.63 — 381,610 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.28 — 355,191 ratings — published 2015
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.10 — 259,955 ratings — published 2018
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.31 — 295,788 ratings — published 1979
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.99 — 515,462 ratings — published 1987
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.78 — 213,213 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.77 — 589,740 ratings — published 2019
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.97 — 239,657 ratings — published 2021
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,246,024 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.48 — 849,776 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.28 — 773,961 ratings — published 1982
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.31 — 426,967 ratings — published 2013
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.00 — 401,123 ratings — published 1937
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,708 ratings — published 2015
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.14 — 324,964 ratings — published 1970
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 66 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.98 — 113,096 ratings — published 2020
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.31 — 139,487 ratings — published 2022
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.30 — 598,952 ratings — published 1969
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.12 — 104,454 ratings — published 2021
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.09 — 168,647 ratings — published 2020
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.93 — 401,568 ratings — published 2018
When No One Is Watching (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.46 — 120,759 ratings — published 2020
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.41 — 604,764 ratings — published 2024
The Other Black Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.35 — 84,585 ratings — published 2021
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.34 — 303,697 ratings — published 1956
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,292 ratings — published 2020
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.84 — 160,352 ratings — published 2019
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.83 — 82,871 ratings — published 2015
Pet (Pet, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.13 — 35,450 ratings — published 2019
Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3)
by (shelved 52 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.07 — 103,870 ratings — published 2021
This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2)
by (shelved 51 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.37 — 70,957 ratings — published 2024
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,073 ratings — published 2019
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.39 — 342,160 ratings — published 2012
Cinderella Is Dead (ebook)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.66 — 89,482 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,802 ratings — published 2018
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.06 — 460,493 ratings — published 2016
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.28 — 207,562 ratings — published 2016
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.83 — 81,119 ratings — published 2020
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.25 — 273,945 ratings — published 2019
Ring Shout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.92 — 68,948 ratings — published 2020
The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.98 — 57,310 ratings — published 2020
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,830 ratings — published 2019
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.32 — 176,873 ratings — published 2017
Bloodmarked (The Legendborn Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 46 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.28 — 94,283 ratings — published 2022
The Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.76 — 42,501 ratings — published 2019
“It's amazing how we unconsciously magnify the things we don't want.”
― 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
