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Black Lit Books
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 385,452 ratings — published 1937
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 750,362 ratings — published 1982
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 488,952 ratings — published 1987
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 579,543 ratings — published 1969
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 299,449 ratings — published 1970
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 269,817 ratings — published 1979
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 201,662 ratings — published 1952
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,007,909 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 401,062 ratings — published 2016
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.19 — 260,461 ratings — published 1993
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 851,982 ratings — published 2020
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.37 — 290,602 ratings — published 1965
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.40 — 365,478 ratings — published 2015
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.55 — 120,356 ratings — published 1963
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 411,276 ratings — published 2013
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 127,143 ratings — published 1977
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 81,314 ratings — published 1953
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 122,854 ratings — published 1973
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.74 — 411,451 ratings — published 1958
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 80,073 ratings — published 1929
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 249,117 ratings — published 1956
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.64 — 350,800 ratings — published 2018
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 443,604 ratings — published 2016
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 81,217 ratings — published 1974
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,511 ratings — published 1940
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 250,322 ratings — published 2018
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 44,849 ratings — published 1903
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 35 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.25 — 306,212 ratings — published 2019
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,035 ratings — published 2010
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,192,418 ratings — published 2018
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 384,912 ratings — published 2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 148,390 ratings — published 2017
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 110,238 ratings — published 1959
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 161,782 ratings — published 2020
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 118,867 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.77 — 574,900 ratings — published 2019
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 156,775 ratings — published 2019
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 134,612 ratings — published 1845
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,123 ratings — published 1981
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 57,951 ratings — published 1861
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,382 ratings — published 1981
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 263,557 ratings — published 2019
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.49 — 802,628 ratings — published 2016
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 32,702 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
by (shelved 27 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 331,681 ratings — published 2015
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 27 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.32 — 83,651 ratings — published 1998
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 217,134 ratings — published 2021
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.48 — 116,485 ratings — published 2010
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 34,629 ratings — published 1975
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 182,667 ratings — published 2006
