14 books
—
6 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Black Author Books
Showing 1-50 of 8,743
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.11 — 880,296 ratings — published 2020
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,039,363 ratings — published 2017
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.29 — 202,114 ratings — published 2020
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.47 — 424,953 ratings — published 2016
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.63 — 374,731 ratings — published 2018
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.18 — 292,604 ratings — published 1993
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.28 — 351,603 ratings — published 2015
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.10 — 257,391 ratings — published 2018
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.31 — 291,445 ratings — published 1979
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.99 — 510,846 ratings — published 1987
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.77 — 587,759 ratings — published 2019
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.78 — 212,344 ratings — published 2019
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.97 — 236,332 ratings — published 2021
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.48 — 841,260 ratings — published 2016
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,236,503 ratings — published 2018
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.31 — 424,366 ratings — published 2013
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.28 — 770,195 ratings — published 1982
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.00 — 398,878 ratings — published 1937
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,056 ratings — published 2015
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 66 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.99 — 112,723 ratings — published 2020
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.14 — 319,004 ratings — published 1970
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.30 — 595,908 ratings — published 1969
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.32 — 136,501 ratings — published 2022
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.93 — 398,273 ratings — published 2018
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.12 — 103,950 ratings — published 2021
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.09 — 167,691 ratings — published 2020
When No One Is Watching (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.46 — 119,757 ratings — published 2020
The Other Black Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.35 — 84,390 ratings — published 2021
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.41 — 590,381 ratings — published 2024
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.34 — 291,585 ratings — published 1956
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.84 — 159,630 ratings — published 2019
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.83 — 82,472 ratings — published 2015
Pet (Pet, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.13 — 35,304 ratings — published 2019
Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3)
by (shelved 52 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.07 — 103,505 ratings — published 2021
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.35 — 65,879 ratings — published 2020
This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2)
by (shelved 51 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.37 — 69,352 ratings — published 2024
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,851 ratings — published 2019
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.39 — 340,098 ratings — published 2012
Cinderella Is Dead (ebook)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.66 — 89,074 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,650 ratings — published 2018
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.06 — 457,421 ratings — published 2016
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.28 — 205,601 ratings — published 2016
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.83 — 80,625 ratings — published 2020
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.25 — 272,384 ratings — published 2019
Ring Shout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.92 — 67,102 ratings — published 2020
The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.98 — 57,057 ratings — published 2020
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,649 ratings — published 2019
Bloodmarked (The Legendborn Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 46 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.28 — 93,251 ratings — published 2022
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
by (shelved 46 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.33 — 175,136 ratings — published 2017
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.99 — 150,810 ratings — published 1999
“Pretenderá em vão lutar contra a tua vontade, e nunca te poderá arrancar da alma a sublime afeição, que deste a outrem. Louco! A mulher só ama uma vez. No seu coração imprimiu Deus um sentir tão puro e tão verdadeiro, que o homem não pode duvidar dos seus afetos.
E a mulher cumpre na terra sua missão de amor e de paz; e depois de a ter cumprido volta ao céu; porque ela passou no mundo à semelhança de um anjo consolador.
Esta é a mulher.
Mas aquela, cujas formas eram tão sedutoras, tão belas, aquela, cujas aparências mágicas e arrebatadoras escondiam um coração árido de afeições puras, e desinteressadas... Oh! Essa não compreendeu para que veio habitar entre os homens; porque a cobiça hedionda envenenou-lhe os nobres sentimentos do coração.
O brilho do ouro deslumbrou-a, e ela vendeu seu amor ao primeiro que lho ofereceu. Maldição!... Infâmia sobre a mulher que não compreendeu a sua honrosa
missão, e trocou por outro os sublimes afetos da sua alma.”
― Úrsula
E a mulher cumpre na terra sua missão de amor e de paz; e depois de a ter cumprido volta ao céu; porque ela passou no mundo à semelhança de um anjo consolador.
Esta é a mulher.
Mas aquela, cujas formas eram tão sedutoras, tão belas, aquela, cujas aparências mágicas e arrebatadoras escondiam um coração árido de afeições puras, e desinteressadas... Oh! Essa não compreendeu para que veio habitar entre os homens; porque a cobiça hedionda envenenou-lhe os nobres sentimentos do coração.
O brilho do ouro deslumbrou-a, e ela vendeu seu amor ao primeiro que lho ofereceu. Maldição!... Infâmia sobre a mulher que não compreendeu a sua honrosa
missão, e trocou por outro os sublimes afetos da sua alma.”
― Úrsula
“My parents are not special people, they’re ordinary, and one of my problems is that I’m expecting perfection from ordinary people. They’re not saints or masters of knowledge just people, people who have children, which, last time I checked, required no proficiency test. People who continue to make mistakes, attempt to learn from them and repeat, until death.”
― Maame
― Maame
