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The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 497 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.11 — 887,736 ratings — published 2020
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 448 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,047,526 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 411 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.46 — 432,155 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 298,025 ratings — published 1979
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 384 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 518,213 ratings — published 1987
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 380 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.18 — 302,005 ratings — published 1993
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 366 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,560 ratings — published 2015
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 359 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.10 — 261,095 ratings — published 2018
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 352 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.14 — 328,526 ratings — published 1970
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 775,962 ratings — published 1982
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.00 — 402,510 ratings — published 1937
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 325 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,251,864 ratings — published 2018
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 315 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.77 — 590,754 ratings — published 2019
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 312 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.63 — 385,143 ratings — published 2018
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 303 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 428,203 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 — 600,679 ratings — published 1969
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 284 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 357,008 ratings — published 2015
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 266 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.93 — 404,034 ratings — published 2018
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 261 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.34 — 309,448 ratings — published 1956
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,442 ratings — published 1963
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 255 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 204,759 ratings — published 2020
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 251 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 462,391 ratings — published 2016
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 249 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.48 — 854,531 ratings — published 2016
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 248 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.97 — 241,030 ratings — published 2021
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 243 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.78 — 213,771 ratings — published 2019
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 241 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.39 — 343,286 ratings — published 2012
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 231 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.84 — 160,690 ratings — published 2019
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.09 — 169,053 ratings — published 2020
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 225 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.25 — 329,372 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 — 66,524 ratings — published 2020
Black Cake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.08 — 240,994 ratings — published 2022
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 205 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.25 — 274,703 ratings — published 2019
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.12 — 104,796 ratings — published 2021
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,680 ratings — published 2017
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.07 — 137,314 ratings — published 1973
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 196 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 122,140 ratings — published 2019
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
by (shelved 189 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 141,039 ratings — published 2022
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 189 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.75 — 428,408 ratings — published 1958
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.41 — 611,894 ratings — published 2024
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,472 ratings — published 1952
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,222 ratings — published 2019
Monday's Not Coming (ebook)
by (shelved 179 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.26 — 92,233 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,955 ratings — published 2018
Open Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.97 — 95,408 ratings — published 2021
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.17 — 136,322 ratings — published 1977
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,852 ratings — published 2010
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,457 ratings — published 2020
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.11 — 70,896 ratings — published 2020
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 169 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.98 — 113,318 ratings — published 2020
The Other Black Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.35 — 84,724 ratings — published 2021
“The fear of course is that in denying or refusing complicity in the marginalization of 'black' writers, I ended up on the very distant and very 'other' side of a line that is imaginary at best. I didn't write as an act of testimony or social indignation (though all writing in some way is just that) and I did not write out of a so-called family tradition of oral storytelling. I never tried to set anybody free, never tried to paint the next real and true picture of the life of my people, never had any people whose picture I knew well enough to paint. Perhaps if I had written in the time immediately following Reconstruction, I would have written to elevate the station of my fellow oppressed.
But the irony was beautiful. I was a victim of racism by virtue of my failing to acknowledge racial difference and by failing to have my art be defined as an exercise in racial self-expression. So, I would not be economically oppressed because of writing a book that fell in line with the very books I deemed racist. And I would have to wear the mask of the person I was expected to be.”
― Erasure
But the irony was beautiful. I was a victim of racism by virtue of my failing to acknowledge racial difference and by failing to have my art be defined as an exercise in racial self-expression. So, I would not be economically oppressed because of writing a book that fell in line with the very books I deemed racist. And I would have to wear the mask of the person I was expected to be.”
― Erasure
“The largest shareholder in L’Oreal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers had been the top girl for a while. After her father’s death Eustacia’s fortune jumped making her crack into the $100 billion club.
Didn’t they think she had anything better to do with her time? Eustacia bristled with annoyance.
No, she would not, (a) being rich was like being beautiful or smart if you have to tell someone you are you're probably not, (b) someone will always ask you for money.”
― The Billionairess
Didn’t they think she had anything better to do with her time? Eustacia bristled with annoyance.
No, she would not, (a) being rich was like being beautiful or smart if you have to tell someone you are you're probably not, (b) someone will always ask you for money.”
― The Billionairess
