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The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 481 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.12 — 854,264 ratings — published 2020
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 442 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,010,752 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 388 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.47 — 402,569 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 362 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 270,932 ratings — published 1979
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 361 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.98 — 490,149 ratings — published 1987
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 351 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.40 — 366,208 ratings — published 2015
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 339 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.11 — 250,764 ratings — published 2018
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 335 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.19 — 262,426 ratings — published 1993
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 751,806 ratings — published 1982
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.13 — 300,617 ratings — published 1970
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 316 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.77 — 575,914 ratings — published 2019
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 386,255 ratings — published 1937
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 314 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,196,556 ratings — published 2018
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 294 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 412,278 ratings — published 2013
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 288 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.64 — 352,197 ratings — published 2018
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 280 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.30 — 580,649 ratings — published 1969
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
by (shelved 263 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.29 — 333,129 ratings — published 2015
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 247 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.93 — 385,355 ratings — published 2018
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.55 — 120,910 ratings — published 1963
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 241 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.49 — 806,059 ratings — published 2016
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 240 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 444,631 ratings — published 2016
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 239 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.79 — 207,167 ratings — published 2019
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 233 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.39 — 330,303 ratings — published 2012
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.34 — 251,563 ratings — published 1956
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 227 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.30 — 188,806 ratings — published 2020
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 224 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.98 — 217,956 ratings — published 2021
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.85 — 156,935 ratings — published 2019
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.10 — 162,176 ratings — published 2020
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 214 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.25 — 307,470 ratings — published 2019
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.36 — 63,165 ratings — published 2020
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 199 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.26 — 264,305 ratings — published 2019
Black Cake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.08 — 226,399 ratings — published 2022
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.00 — 148,564 ratings — published 2017
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 184 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 119,045 ratings — published 2019
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 184 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.75 — 412,302 ratings — published 1958
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,390 ratings — published 2019
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.13 — 100,581 ratings — published 2021
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,798 ratings — published 2018
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.92 — 201,937 ratings — published 1952
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,215 ratings — published 2010
Monday's Not Coming (ebook)
by (shelved 171 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.26 — 79,637 ratings — published 2018
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.05 — 123,473 ratings — published 1973
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 168 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 110,329 ratings — published 2020
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
by (shelved 165 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.33 — 117,609 ratings — published 2022
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 164 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.84 — 80,500 ratings — published 2015
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.52 — 161,248 ratings — published 2020
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.44 — 490,230 ratings — published 2024
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.12 — 68,089 ratings — published 2020
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.22 — 109,646 ratings — published 2020
Open Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 88,695 ratings — published 2021
“A border does not make one holy.
A passport does not make one pure.”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
A passport does not make one pure.”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
“I am Sudan. And I do not beg.
I carry warriors in my legs.
I walk like a prophecy. I light like a flame.
I was never small, just wrongly named.
In every land, I stand tall.
You cannot exile what built it all.”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
I carry warriors in my legs.
I walk like a prophecy. I light like a flame.
I was never small, just wrongly named.
In every land, I stand tall.
You cannot exile what built it all.”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
