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The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 496 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.11 — 882,872 ratings — published 2020
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 450 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,042,199 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 408 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.47 — 427,615 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 387 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 293,800 ratings — published 1979
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 378 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 513,338 ratings — published 1987
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 377 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.18 — 296,315 ratings — published 1993
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 367 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,874 ratings — published 2015
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 357 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.10 — 258,820 ratings — published 2018
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.14 — 322,151 ratings — published 1970
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 340 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 772,253 ratings — published 1982
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.00 — 400,191 ratings — published 1937
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 325 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,241,329 ratings — published 2018
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 314 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.77 — 588,901 ratings — published 2019
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 310 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.63 — 378,495 ratings — published 2018
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 300 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 425,883 ratings — published 2013
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 295 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.30 — 597,560 ratings — published 1969
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 281 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 353,567 ratings — published 2015
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 264 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.93 — 399,884 ratings — published 2018
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.34 — 298,347 ratings — published 1956
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 255 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.55 — 129,881 ratings — published 1963
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 254 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.29 — 203,085 ratings — published 2020
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 249 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.48 — 845,779 ratings — published 2016
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 248 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 459,057 ratings — published 2016
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 244 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.97 — 238,272 ratings — published 2021
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 242 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.78 — 212,797 ratings — published 2019
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 239 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.39 — 341,265 ratings — published 2012
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 231 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.84 — 160,004 ratings — published 2019
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 229 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.09 — 168,241 ratings — published 2020
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 221 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.25 — 325,055 ratings — published 2019
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,116 ratings — published 2020
Black Cake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.08 — 239,209 ratings — published 2022
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 205 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.25 — 273,247 ratings — published 2019
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 134,665 ratings — published 1973
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.12 — 104,222 ratings — published 2021
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.00 — 152,125 ratings — published 2017
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 121,543 ratings — published 2019
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
by (shelved 187 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 138,095 ratings — published 2022
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 187 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.75 — 425,759 ratings — published 1958
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 184 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,976 ratings — published 2019
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.41 — 598,384 ratings — published 2024
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.93 — 206,646 ratings — published 1952
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,730 ratings — published 2018
Monday's Not Coming (ebook)
by (shelved 177 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.26 — 90,477 ratings — published 2018
Open Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.97 — 94,504 ratings — published 2021
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,372 ratings — published 2010
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.17 — 134,724 ratings — published 1977
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.52 — 167,791 ratings — published 2020
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.11 — 70,455 ratings — published 2020
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 168 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.98 — 112,901 ratings — published 2020
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 168 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.83 — 82,707 ratings — published 2015
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“My heart has turned black bitumen out of the sadness, but I know it will never burn out. I will never have cinders of you.”
― In the midst of the womb
― In the midst of the womb
“They call us forgotten.
Dust in the breeze.
But how do you forget
the roots of the trees?”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
Dust in the breeze.
But how do you forget
the roots of the trees?”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
