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The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 497 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.11 — 887,695 ratings — published 2020
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 448 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,047,474 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 411 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.46 — 432,117 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 297,990 ratings — published 1979
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 384 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 518,174 ratings — published 1987
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 380 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.18 — 301,962 ratings — published 1993
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 366 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,547 ratings — published 2015
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 359 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.10 — 261,078 ratings — published 2018
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 352 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.14 — 328,472 ratings — published 1970
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 775,940 ratings — published 1982
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.00 — 402,490 ratings — published 1937
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 325 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,251,783 ratings — published 2018
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 315 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.77 — 590,746 ratings — published 2019
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 312 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.63 — 385,086 ratings — published 2018
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 303 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 428,190 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 — 600,653 ratings — published 1969
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 284 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 356,977 ratings — published 2015
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 266 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.93 — 403,996 ratings — published 2018
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 261 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.34 — 309,380 ratings — published 1956
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,434 ratings — published 1963
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 255 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 204,744 ratings — published 2020
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 251 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 462,368 ratings — published 2016
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 249 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.48 — 854,468 ratings — published 2016
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 248 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.97 — 241,002 ratings — published 2021
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 243 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.78 — 213,763 ratings — published 2019
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 241 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.39 — 343,268 ratings — published 2012
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 231 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.84 — 160,686 ratings — published 2019
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.09 — 169,047 ratings — published 2020
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 225 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.25 — 329,342 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 — 66,521 ratings — published 2020
Black Cake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.08 — 240,975 ratings — published 2022
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 205 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.25 — 274,696 ratings — published 2019
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.12 — 104,791 ratings — published 2021
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.07 — 137,298 ratings — published 1973
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,675 ratings — published 2017
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 196 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 122,133 ratings — published 2019
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
by (shelved 189 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 141,018 ratings — published 2022
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 189 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.75 — 428,371 ratings — published 1958
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.41 — 611,777 ratings — published 2024
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,465 ratings — published 1952
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,223 ratings — published 2019
Monday's Not Coming (ebook)
by (shelved 179 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.26 — 92,208 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,954 ratings — published 2018
Open Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.97 — 95,407 ratings — published 2021
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.17 — 136,309 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 — 120,845 ratings — published 2010
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,448 ratings — published 2020
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.11 — 70,894 ratings — published 2020
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 169 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.98 — 113,314 ratings — published 2020
The Other Black Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.35 — 84,722 ratings — published 2021
“I always questioned myself if we were ever like birds in our hearts. Were feelings ever set back home at the end of the day? I grew up to learn that we do have homes inside of us. It is all up to us to fly our feelings home.”
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“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
