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The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 459,951 ratings — published 2016
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 323,955 ratings — published 1970
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.99 — 514,788 ratings — published 1987
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.55 — 130,336 ratings — published 1963
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.79 — 180,880 ratings — published 2000
Real Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.77 — 38,417 ratings — published 2020
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.28 — 773,389 ratings — published 1982
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.97 — 239,219 ratings — published 2021
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.91 — 41,058 ratings — published 1992
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 135,407 ratings — published 1973
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.91 — 121,199 ratings — published 2014
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,259 ratings — published 2017
Don't Call Us Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.45 — 12,715 ratings — published 2017
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,433 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.37 — 300,019 ratings — published 1965
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 295,133 ratings — published 1979
The Glory Gets (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.24 — 29 ratings — published 2015
Outlandish Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.24 — 38 ratings — published 2003
Belly Song and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.55 — 42 ratings — published
Red Clay Suite (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.28 — 39 ratings — published 2007
Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings – A Personal and Historical Exploration of Black Women's Journeys Through Intersectionality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.51 — 434 ratings — published
The Gospel of Barbecue: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 66 ratings — published 2000
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.38 — 76 ratings — published 2007
Kin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.22 — 96,736 ratings — published 2026
The Trees (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 68,527 ratings — published 2021
Last Summer on State Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.17 — 16,662 ratings — published 2022
Burn Down Master's House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.35 — 21,653 ratings — published 2026
Harlem Shuffle (The Harlem Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.73 — 85,902 ratings — published 2021
Burnley "Rocky" Jones, Revolutionary: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.21 — 33 ratings — published
The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.53 — 166 ratings — published 2010
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,306 ratings — published 2007
No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (Justice, Power, and Politics)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.48 — 216 ratings — published 2016
This Motherless Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.22 — 13,868 ratings — published 2024
Rehearsals for Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.46 — 792 ratings — published 2022
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 426,616 ratings — published 2013
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.41 — 602,668 ratings — published 2024
I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 38,023 ratings — published 2017
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.11 — 884,297 ratings — published 2020
How to Say Babylon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.42 — 34,482 ratings — published 2023
Black Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 56,727 ratings — published 1945
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.36 — 25,894 ratings — published 1955
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,991 ratings — published 1903
The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.44 — 218 ratings — published 2019
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.91 — 86,358 ratings — published 1929
Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,551 ratings — published 2017
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,638 ratings — published 1861
The Late Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.33 — 9,256 ratings — published 2023
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,945 ratings — published 1845
Up from Slavery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.11 — 36,943 ratings — published 1900
What We All Long For (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.36 — 2,269 ratings — published 2005