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The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 453,829 ratings — published 2016
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 313,358 ratings — published 1970
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.99 — 504,441 ratings — published 1987
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.55 — 126,839 ratings — published 1963
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.79 — 178,269 ratings — published 2000
Real Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.78 — 37,943 ratings — published 2020
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.28 — 765,119 ratings — published 1982
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.98 — 228,928 ratings — published 2021
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.91 — 39,416 ratings — published 1992
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 130,565 ratings — published 1973
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.92 — 120,398 ratings — published 2014
Don't Call Us Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.45 — 12,559 ratings — published 2017
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,970 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.37 — 296,555 ratings — published 1965
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 285,455 ratings — published 1979
Burn Down Master's House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.39 — 12,843 ratings — published 2026
Harlem Shuffle (The Harlem Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.73 — 83,061 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 4.51 — 160 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 — 1,289 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 4.23 — 13,265 ratings — published 2024
Rehearsals for Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.46 — 774 ratings — published 2022
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 421,062 ratings — published 2013
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.42 — 567,805 ratings — published 2024
I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 37,728 ratings — published 2017
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.12 — 874,212 ratings — published 2020
How to Say Babylon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.43 — 33,364 ratings — published 2023
Black Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 56,411 ratings — published 1945
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.36 — 25,333 ratings — published 1955
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,657 ratings — published 1903
The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.46 — 211 ratings — published 2019
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.92 — 84,147 ratings — published 1929
Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,416 ratings — published 2017
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,126 ratings — published 1861
The Late Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.33 — 9,079 ratings — published 2023
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,542 ratings — published 1845
Up from Slavery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.11 — 36,640 ratings — published 1900
What We All Long For (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.36 — 2,255 ratings — published 2005
Dream Count (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.77 — 51,416 ratings — published 2025
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.75 — 19,422 ratings — published 2022
Model Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.68 — 13,945 ratings — published 2024
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.42 — 140 ratings — published
Mules and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,535 ratings — published 1935
Womanist Midrash, Volume 1: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.60 — 727 ratings — published 2015
Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader (Library of Theological Ethics)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.39 — 59 ratings — published 2011
Black Church Studies: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 14 ratings — published 2007
Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.57 — 81 ratings — published 1995
Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil (Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.38 — 145 ratings — published 2006
Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion and Society (Religion, Race, and Ethnicity)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.21 — 43 ratings — published 2006
