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The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 446,812 ratings — published 2016
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.13 — 303,344 ratings — published 1970
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.98 — 492,880 ratings — published 1987
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.55 — 122,349 ratings — published 1963
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.79 — 175,574 ratings — published 2000
Real Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.78 — 37,417 ratings — published 2020
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.28 — 754,781 ratings — published 1982
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.98 — 219,856 ratings — published 2021
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.91 — 38,052 ratings — published 1992
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.05 — 124,973 ratings — published 1973
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 3.92 — 119,075 ratings — published 2014
Don't Call Us Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.46 — 12,404 ratings — published 2017
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.40 — 367,907 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.37 — 292,315 ratings — published 1965
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 273,751 ratings — published 1979
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 4.47 — 211 ratings — published 2016
This Motherless Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.23 — 11,224 ratings — published 2024
Rehearsals for Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.47 — 746 ratings — published 2022
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 414,302 ratings — published 2013
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.43 — 509,642 ratings — published 2024
I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 37,401 ratings — published 2017
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.12 — 859,112 ratings — published 2020
How to Say Babylon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.43 — 31,823 ratings — published 2023
Black Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 55,995 ratings — published 1945
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.36 — 24,482 ratings — published 1955
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,062 ratings — published 1903
The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.48 — 208 ratings — published 2019
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.92 — 81,092 ratings — published 1929
Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,190 ratings — published 2017
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.17 — 58,227 ratings — published 1861
The Late Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.34 — 8,892 ratings — published 2023
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.13 — 135,499 ratings — published 1845
Up from Slavery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.11 — 36,232 ratings — published 1900
What We All Long For (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.36 — 2,213 ratings — published 2005
Dream Count (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.79 — 44,226 ratings — published 2025
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.76 — 18,960 ratings — published 2022
Model Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.68 — 12,099 ratings — published 2024
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.43 — 138 ratings — published
Mules and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,439 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 4.61 — 719 ratings — published 2015
Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader (Library of Theological Ethics)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.38 — 58 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 4.58 — 79 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 — 144 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 4.17 — 41 ratings — published 2006
Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans (Religion in American Life)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 178 ratings — published 2001
If Beale Street Could Talk (Vintage International)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.27 — 82,716 ratings — published 1974
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.34 — 257,086 ratings — published 1956
Quicksand (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,799 ratings — published 1928
How to Fight Racism Young Reader's Edition: A Guide to Standing Up for Racial Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 78 ratings — published
