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Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.28 — 205,010 ratings — published 2020
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.11 — 888,432 ratings — published 2020
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as black-books)
avg rating 3.97 — 241,349 ratings — published 2021
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,048,262 ratings — published 2017
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as black-books)
avg rating 3.99 — 519,024 ratings — published 1987
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.31 — 298,662 ratings — published 1979
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.28 — 776,495 ratings — published 1982
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.14 — 329,436 ratings — published 1970
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.28 — 357,552 ratings — published 2015
Honey & Spice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-books)
avg rating 3.90 — 51,200 ratings — published 2022
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,782 ratings — published 2015
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.18 — 302,759 ratings — published 1993
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.31 — 141,451 ratings — published 2022
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.10 — 261,380 ratings — published 2018
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,120 ratings — published 1903
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.00 — 402,896 ratings — published 1937
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.30 — 601,048 ratings — published 1969
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.12 — 104,880 ratings — published 2021
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-books)
avg rating 3.63 — 386,200 ratings — published 2018
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.17 — 136,549 ratings — published 1977
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as black-books)
avg rating 3.98 — 113,368 ratings — published 2020
The Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as black-books)
avg rating 3.76 — 42,796 ratings — published 2019
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,927 ratings — published 2010
The Other Black Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as black-books)
avg rating 3.35 — 84,755 ratings — published 2021
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as black-books)
avg rating 3.92 — 21,255 ratings — published 2020
Cinderella Is Dead (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as black-books)
avg rating 3.66 — 89,774 ratings — published 2020
Grown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.23 — 43,613 ratings — published 2020
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as black-books)
avg rating 3.84 — 160,795 ratings — published 2019
Monday's Not Coming (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.26 — 92,483 ratings — published 2018
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.46 — 432,730 ratings — published 2016
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as black-books)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,609 ratings — published 1952
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as black-books)
avg rating 3.52 — 60,394 ratings — published 2022
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as black-books)
avg rating 3.78 — 213,908 ratings — published 2019
The Black Flamingo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.32 — 34,348 ratings — published 2019
The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as black-books)
avg rating 3.98 — 57,449 ratings — published 2020
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.37 — 301,679 ratings — published 1965
Only for the Week (The Forever Falling Series, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,507 ratings — published 2023
The Neighbor Favor (The Greene Sisters, #1)
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avg rating 3.83 — 38,942 ratings — published 2023
Bloodmarked (The Legendborn Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.28 — 94,898 ratings — published 2022
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.18 — 50,035 ratings — published 2020
This Poison Heart (This Poison Heart, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.09 — 32,301 ratings — published 2021
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as black-books)
avg rating 3.77 — 591,027 ratings — published 2019
Pet (Pet, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.13 — 35,563 ratings — published 2019
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.26 — 90,799 ratings — published 1974
Dread Nation (Dread Nation, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.13 — 36,798 ratings — published 2018
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,745 ratings — published 1987
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,743 ratings — published 1963
The Coldest Winter Ever (The Coldest Winter Ever, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as black-books)
avg rating 4.46 — 45,025 ratings — published 1999
Beasts of Prey (Beasts of Prey, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as black-books)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,677 ratings — published 2021
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as black-books)
avg rating 3.68 — 37,856 ratings — published 2023
“Fran Katzenjammer: "You need someone normal around here".
Bernard: "Normal! He's normal is he, is he"?
Fran Katzenjammer: [chuckles]
Bernard: "What am I then"?
Fran Katzenjammer: "Well you're a freak, Bernard, you know that".
Bernard: [pauses then blurts] "Yes. I know. But I have rights"!”
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Bernard: "Normal! He's normal is he, is he"?
Fran Katzenjammer: [chuckles]
Bernard: "What am I then"?
Fran Katzenjammer: "Well you're a freak, Bernard, you know that".
Bernard: [pauses then blurts] "Yes. I know. But I have rights"!”
―
“People swear they know the whole me. They tend to assume I’ve never been through anything cold since I exude a warm innocence.”
― It Came 2 Pass: Book 1, In the Beginning
― It Came 2 Pass: Book 1, In the Beginning
