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Black Lit Books
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 390,693 ratings — published 1937
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 758,266 ratings — published 1982
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 496,508 ratings — published 1987
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 586,267 ratings — published 1969
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 306,793 ratings — published 1970
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 278,289 ratings — published 1979
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 203,378 ratings — published 1952
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,020,492 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 410,061 ratings — published 2016
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.19 — 272,511 ratings — published 1993
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 864,703 ratings — published 2020
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.40 — 369,761 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.37 — 293,622 ratings — published 1965
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 60 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.55 — 124,088 ratings — published 1963
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 416,530 ratings — published 2013
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 129,645 ratings — published 1977
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 126,966 ratings — published 1973
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 82,210 ratings — published 1929
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 416,414 ratings — published 1958
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 83,618 ratings — published 1953
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 263,849 ratings — published 1956
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.64 — 359,627 ratings — published 2018
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 449,305 ratings — published 2016
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,235 ratings — published 1940
If Beale Street Could Talk (Vintage International)
by (shelved 43 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 84,173 ratings — published 1974
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,280 ratings — published 1903
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 252,817 ratings — published 2018
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,210,436 ratings — published 2018
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 35 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.25 — 312,920 ratings — published 2019
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 112,023 ratings — published 1959
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,310 ratings — published 2010
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 164,191 ratings — published 2020
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 149,650 ratings — published 2017
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 136,312 ratings — published 1845
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 119,895 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.77 — 580,336 ratings — published 2019
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 157,837 ratings — published 2019
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 388,763 ratings — published 2018
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,107 ratings — published 1981
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,518 ratings — published 1981
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.49 — 816,976 ratings — published 2016
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.32 — 86,821 ratings — published 1998
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 58,565 ratings — published 1861
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 194,250 ratings — published 2020
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 267,293 ratings — published 2019
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 33,218 ratings — published 2018
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.48 — 118,387 ratings — published 2010
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 222,566 ratings — published 2021
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 339,566 ratings — published 2015
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 34,738 ratings — published 1975
