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Black Lit Books
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 394,345 ratings — published 1937
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 763,505 ratings — published 1982
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 502,421 ratings — published 1987
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 590,653 ratings — published 1969
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 311,842 ratings — published 1970
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 283,726 ratings — published 1979
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,686 ratings — published 1952
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,028,537 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 416,481 ratings — published 2016
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 872,080 ratings — published 2020
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 420,033 ratings — published 2013
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.19 — 280,775 ratings — published 1993
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 61 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.55 — 126,223 ratings — published 1963
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,213 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.37 — 295,777 ratings — published 1965
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 131,685 ratings — published 1977
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 129,675 ratings — published 1973
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 419,949 ratings — published 1958
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 85,024 ratings — published 1953
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 83,688 ratings — published 1929
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 274,128 ratings — published 1956
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.63 — 366,442 ratings — published 2018
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,336 ratings — published 1940
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 452,718 ratings — published 2016
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 86,015 ratings — published 1974
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,567 ratings — published 1903
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 254,564 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,120 ratings — published 2010
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,221,844 ratings — published 2018
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 35 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.25 — 317,084 ratings — published 2019
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 113,325 ratings — published 1959
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 165,742 ratings — published 2020
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 150,606 ratings — published 2017
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,303 ratings — published 1845
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 120,516 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.77 — 583,764 ratings — published 2019
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 158,594 ratings — published 2019
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 393,038 ratings — published 2018
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,821 ratings — published 1981
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 198,123 ratings — published 2020
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,702 ratings — published 1981
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.48 — 119,840 ratings — published 2010
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.42 — 560,392 ratings — published 2024
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.49 — 826,987 ratings — published 2016
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 33,571 ratings — published 2018
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.32 — 89,169 ratings — published 1998
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,006 ratings — published 1861
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 188,130 ratings — published 2006
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 226,961 ratings — published 2021
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.25 — 269,675 ratings — published 2019
