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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 402,519 ratings — published 1937
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 775,976 ratings — published 1982
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 518,227 ratings — published 1987
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 600,690 ratings — published 1969
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 328,546 ratings — published 1970
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 298,047 ratings — published 1979
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,473 ratings — published 1952
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,047,545 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.46 — 432,169 ratings — published 2016
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,452 ratings — published 1963
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 887,752 ratings — published 2020
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 428,216 ratings — published 2013
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 302,029 ratings — published 1993
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.37 — 301,465 ratings — published 1965
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,565 ratings — published 2015
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.07 — 137,328 ratings — published 1973
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 136,325 ratings — published 1977
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 428,416 ratings — published 1958
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 87,255 ratings — published 1929
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 88,734 ratings — published 1953
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 309,477 ratings — published 1956
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.63 — 385,177 ratings — published 2018
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 90,622 ratings — published 1974
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 108,120 ratings — published 1940
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 462,403 ratings — published 2016
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,104 ratings — published 1903
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 261,103 ratings — published 2018
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 38 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.25 — 329,381 ratings — published 2019
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 115,676 ratings — published 1959
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,859 ratings — published 2010
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,251,919 ratings — published 2018
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 169,056 ratings — published 2020
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,680 ratings — published 2017
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 139,895 ratings — published 1845
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.77 — 590,766 ratings — published 2019
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.84 — 160,693 ratings — published 2019
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 404,043 ratings — published 2018
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,446 ratings — published 1981
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.48 — 854,585 ratings — published 2016
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 122,144 ratings — published 2019
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.59 — 37,096 ratings — published 1981
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.41 — 611,940 ratings — published 2024
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 241,039 ratings — published 2021
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 — 123,012 ratings — published 2010
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.32 — 94,708 ratings — published 1998
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 95,291 ratings — published 2014
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 204,766 ratings — published 2020
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.25 — 274,712 ratings — published 2019
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 34,364 ratings — published
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 357,021 ratings — published 2015
