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The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 463,097 ratings — published 2016
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 329,954 ratings — published 1970
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.99 — 519,448 ratings — published 1987
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,855 ratings — published 1963
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.79 — 182,041 ratings — published 2000
Real Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.77 — 38,631 ratings — published 2020
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.28 — 776,794 ratings — published 1982
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.91 — 41,608 ratings — published 1992
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 137,954 ratings — published 1973
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,486 ratings — published 2017
Don't Call Us Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.45 — 12,820 ratings — published 2017
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,902 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.37 — 301,839 ratings — published 1965
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 298,973 ratings — published 1979
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.26 — 682 ratings — published 1927
Best African American Fiction: 2009 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.83 — 110 ratings — published 2008
Rice (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.42 — 116 ratings — published 1995
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 4.22 — 41 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 — 444 ratings — published
The Gospel of Barbecue: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.13 — 68 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 4.21 — 118,140 ratings — published 2026
The Trees (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 71,493 ratings — published 2021
Last Summer on State Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.17 — 17,219 ratings — published 2022
Burn Down Master's House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.34 — 23,551 ratings — published 2026
Harlem Shuffle (The Harlem Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.73 — 87,193 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 4.54 — 169 ratings — published 2010
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,318 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 — 225 ratings — published 2016
This Motherless Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,063 ratings — published 2024
Rehearsals for Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.46 — 802 ratings — published 2022
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 428,763 ratings — published 2013
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.41 — 614,792 ratings — published 2024
I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 38,142 ratings — published 2017
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.11 — 888,824 ratings — published 2020
How to Say Babylon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.42 — 34,893 ratings — published 2023
Black Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 56,917 ratings — published 1945
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.36 — 26,061 ratings — published 1955
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,134 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 — 87,566 ratings — published 1929
Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,610 ratings — published 2017
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,990 ratings — published 1861
The Late Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.33 — 9,327 ratings — published 2023
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 140,278 ratings — published 1845
Up from Slavery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.11 — 37,139 ratings — published 1900