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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 — 397,467 ratings — published 1937
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 768,094 ratings — published 1982
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 508,194 ratings — published 1987
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 316,301 ratings — published 1970
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 594,279 ratings — published 1969
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 288,965 ratings — published 1979
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 205,758 ratings — published 1952
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,036,000 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 422,082 ratings — published 2016
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 64 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.55 — 128,148 ratings — published 1963
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 422,879 ratings — published 2013
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,174 ratings — published 2015
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.19 — 288,492 ratings — published 1993
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 877,784 ratings — published 2020
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.37 — 297,699 ratings — published 1965
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 133,253 ratings — published 1977
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 132,148 ratings — published 1973
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 423,000 ratings — published 1958
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 84,977 ratings — published 1929
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 86,382 ratings — published 1953
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 285,101 ratings — published 1956
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.63 — 371,408 ratings — published 2018
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,208 ratings — published 1940
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 455,838 ratings — published 2016
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 87,693 ratings — published 1974
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,779 ratings — published 1903
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 256,244 ratings — published 2018
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,231,680 ratings — published 2018
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 36 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.25 — 320,828 ratings — published 2019
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,838 ratings — published 2010
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 114,308 ratings — published 1959
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 151,425 ratings — published 2017
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 167,009 ratings — published 2020
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,007 ratings — published 1845
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 121,075 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.77 — 586,536 ratings — published 2019
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.84 — 159,265 ratings — published 2019
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 396,576 ratings — published 2018
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,071 ratings — published 1981
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 200,950 ratings — published 2020
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.49 — 836,433 ratings — published 2016
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,195 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 — 120,994 ratings — published 2010
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.32 — 91,243 ratings — published 1998
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.41 — 581,335 ratings — published 2024
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 33,830 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 349,595 ratings — published 2015
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,304 ratings — published 1861
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as black-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 190,136 ratings — published 2006
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as black-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 233,945 ratings — published 2021
