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The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 329,806 ratings — published 1970
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 432,983 ratings — published 2016
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 403,051 ratings — published 1937
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 298,882 ratings — published 1979
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 888,690 ratings — published 2020
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 519,312 ratings — published 1987
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,048,511 ratings — published 2017
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 776,686 ratings — published 1982
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 136,632 ratings — published 1977
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 404,808 ratings — published 2018
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 428,686 ratings — published 2013
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 108,210 ratings — published 1940
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 160,836 ratings — published 2019
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 302,999 ratings — published 1993
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,662 ratings — published 1952
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 137,882 ratings — published 1973
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 122,268 ratings — published 2019
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 463,031 ratings — published 2016
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 27 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 330,110 ratings — published 2019
The Other Black Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 3.35 — 84,771 ratings — published 2021
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 3.63 — 386,534 ratings — published 2018
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 261,504 ratings — published 2018
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 90,870 ratings — published 1974
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 614,483 ratings — published 2024
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 194,303 ratings — published 2006
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 241,485 ratings — published 2021
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 428,984 ratings — published 1958
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,806 ratings — published 2017
Black Cake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 241,340 ratings — published 2022
Open Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 95,603 ratings — published 2021
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 87,524 ratings — published 1929
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 205,121 ratings — published 2020
Kin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 117,546 ratings — published 2026
Take My Hand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 120,037 ratings — published 2022
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 169,215 ratings — published 2020
Red at the Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 85,497 ratings — published 2019
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 141,615 ratings — published 2022
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 20,380 ratings — published 2018
The Coldest Winter Ever (The Coldest Winter Ever, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 45,042 ratings — published 1999
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 345,287 ratings — published 2023
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 104,922 ratings — published 2021
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 182,072 ratings — published 2020
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 3.77 — 591,128 ratings — published 2019
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 152,560 ratings — published 2003
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 311,577 ratings — published 1956
Sky Full of Elephants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 19,407 ratings — published 2024
All the Sinners Bleed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 154,234 ratings — published 2023
The House of Eve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 148,523 ratings — published 2023
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.50 — 44,716 ratings — published 2021
Deacon King Kong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as black-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 84,418 ratings — published 2020
“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
