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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 400,159 ratings — published 1937
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 772,207 ratings — published 1982
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 513,279 ratings — published 1987
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 597,522 ratings — published 1969
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 322,073 ratings — published 1970
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 293,739 ratings — published 1979
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 206,640 ratings — published 1952
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 427,556 ratings — published 2016
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 66 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.55 — 129,865 ratings — published 1963
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,042,128 ratings — published 2017
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 425,852 ratings — published 2013
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 882,813 ratings — published 2020
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 296,237 ratings — published 1993
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.37 — 299,454 ratings — published 1965
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,856 ratings — published 2015
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 134,710 ratings — published 1977
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 134,642 ratings — published 1973
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 425,720 ratings — published 1958
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 86,011 ratings — published 1929
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 87,630 ratings — published 1953
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 298,191 ratings — published 1956
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.63 — 378,400 ratings — published 2018
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 89,272 ratings — published 1974
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,701 ratings — published 1940
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 459,037 ratings — published 2016
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,934 ratings — published 1903
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 258,786 ratings — published 2018
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 38 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.25 — 325,014 ratings — published 2019
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 114,979 ratings — published 1959
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,241,190 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 — 120,366 ratings — published 2010
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 152,112 ratings — published 2017
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 168,227 ratings — published 2020
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,633 ratings — published 1845
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.77 — 588,884 ratings — published 2019
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.84 — 159,995 ratings — published 2019
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 399,848 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.48 — 845,667 ratings — published 2016
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 121,534 ratings — published 2019
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,272 ratings — published 1981
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.41 — 598,206 ratings — published 2024
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,671 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 — 122,053 ratings — published 2010
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.32 — 93,113 ratings — published 1998
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 192,238 ratings — published 2006
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 238,238 ratings — published 2021
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 203,059 ratings — published 2020
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.25 — 273,220 ratings — published 2019
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 353,521 ratings — published 2015
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,558 ratings — published 1861
