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Black Authors Books
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The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 491 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.12 — 871,293 ratings — published 2020
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 453 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,027,648 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 403 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.47 — 415,724 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 384 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 283,115 ratings — published 1979
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 373 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.98 — 501,673 ratings — published 1987
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 366 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.19 — 279,816 ratings — published 1993
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 364 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.40 — 371,913 ratings — published 2015
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 348 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.10 — 254,382 ratings — published 2018
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 337 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.14 — 311,273 ratings — published 1970
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 332 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 762,897 ratings — published 1982
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 323 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,220,548 ratings — published 2018
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 321 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 393,950 ratings — published 1937
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 316 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.77 — 583,393 ratings — published 2019
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 306 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.63 — 365,776 ratings — published 2018
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 301 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 419,610 ratings — published 2013
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 290 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.30 — 590,170 ratings — published 1969
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 275 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 344,329 ratings — published 2015
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 260 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.93 — 392,546 ratings — published 2018
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 249 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.55 — 125,975 ratings — published 1963
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 248 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 452,341 ratings — published 2016
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.49 — 825,680 ratings — published 2016
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 244 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.78 — 210,702 ratings — published 2019
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 244 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.29 — 197,731 ratings — published 2020
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.34 — 272,973 ratings — published 1956
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 238 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.39 — 336,391 ratings — published 2012
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 234 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.98 — 226,366 ratings — published 2021
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 229 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.85 — 158,518 ratings — published 2019
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 224 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.10 — 165,577 ratings — published 2020
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 219 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.25 — 316,637 ratings — published 2019
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 211 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.35 — 64,911 ratings — published 2020
Black Cake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.08 — 233,900 ratings — published 2022
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 203 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.25 — 269,425 ratings — published 2019
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.00 — 150,499 ratings — published 2017
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 120,459 ratings — published 2019
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.12 — 102,474 ratings — published 2021
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 129,359 ratings — published 1973
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,316 ratings — published 2019
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 185 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.75 — 419,532 ratings — published 1958
Monday's Not Coming (ebook)
by (shelved 181 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.26 — 86,049 ratings — published 2018
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,545 ratings — published 1952
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 179 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.42 — 557,652 ratings — published 2024
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
by (shelved 179 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.32 — 129,732 ratings — published 2022
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,322 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,033 ratings — published 2010
Open Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.98 — 92,055 ratings — published 2021
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 170 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.84 — 81,732 ratings — published 2015
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.52 — 165,061 ratings — published 2020
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 168 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 111,932 ratings — published 2020
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.16 — 131,448 ratings — published 1977
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.11 — 69,397 ratings — published 2020
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“Black lives should not only matter when we are dead. We should matter while we are living.”
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“My negritude is not a stone, its deafness hurled against the clamor of the day
my negritude is not a leukoma of dead liquid over the earth's dead eye
my negritude is neither tower nor cathedral
it takes root in the red flesh of the soil
it takes root in the ardent flesh of the sky
it breaks through opaque prostration with its upright patience.”
― Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
my negritude is not a leukoma of dead liquid over the earth's dead eye
my negritude is neither tower nor cathedral
it takes root in the red flesh of the soil
it takes root in the ardent flesh of the sky
it breaks through opaque prostration with its upright patience.”
― Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
