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Harlem Shuffle (The Harlem Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.73 — 85,686 ratings — published 2021
Crook Manifesto (The Harlem Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,898 ratings — published 2023
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.98 — 59,286 ratings — published 2024
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.91 — 86,180 ratings — published 1929
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.93 — 206,764 ratings — published 1952
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.00 — 400,481 ratings — published 1937
Harlem Rhapsody (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,878 ratings — published 2025
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.91 — 40,966 ratings — published 1992
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.47 — 428,359 ratings — published 2016
The Blacker the Berry... (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,209 ratings — published 1927
Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.63 — 38,574 ratings — published 1954
A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,090 ratings — published 1957
Some Places More Than Others (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,395 ratings — published 2019
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street (The Vanderbeekers, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.11 — 29,466 ratings — published 2017
The Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.28 — 14,253 ratings — published 1946
Home to Harlem (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,800 ratings — published 1928
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 6 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.55 — 130,126 ratings — published 1963
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.36 — 145,813 ratings — published 2018
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.48 — 122,232 ratings — published 2010
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore (Carolrhoda Picture Books)
by (shelved 6 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,095 ratings — published 2015
No Crystal Stair (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,576 ratings — published 2011
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.06 — 87,857 ratings — published 1953
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,197 ratings — published 2020
Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.26 — 556 ratings — published 2020
Quicksand (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,260 ratings — published 1928
Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,114 ratings — published 2026
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,030 ratings — published 2022
Dead Dead Girls (Harlem Renaissance Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.21 — 6,428 ratings — published 2021
The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,732 ratings — published 1958
The Stars Beneath Our Feet (Library Binding)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,379 ratings — published 2017
The Ballad of Black Tom (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.81 — 37,317 ratings — published 2016
The Collected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.36 — 18,460 ratings — published 1994
Harlem Beat 1-29 (Harlem Beat, Volume 1-29)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.49 — 952 ratings — published 2003
The Ways of White Folks (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.47 — 5,742 ratings — published 1934
The Big Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,081 ratings — published 1940
Darius & Twig (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,127 ratings — published 2013
Quicksand and Passing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,633 ratings — published 1928
A Harlem Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.10 — 707 ratings — published
With Love from Harlem (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,775 ratings — published 2026
The Weary Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,419 ratings — published 1925
H Is for Harlem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.43 — 186 ratings — published 2022
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.81 — 33,816 ratings — published 2021
Infants of the Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.81 — 512 ratings — published 1932
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.26 — 89,479 ratings — published 1974
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.36 — 25,862 ratings — published 1955
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.37 — 299,739 ratings — published 1965
“The man subjected him to a never-seen-a-Negro-like-you-before look, not a novel experience for Carney. He reckoned it occurred more frequently these days, all over. Lunch counters, the voting booth, next thing you know they're running successful furniture businesses in Harlem.”
― Crook Manifesto
― Crook Manifesto
“I was right there in the middle of all of this action. I didn’t have to think up gags…The cartoons drew themselves…I was more surprised than anyone when Brother Bootsie became a Harlem household celebrity, not only among the colored proletariat be among the literati as well.”
― Why I Left America and Other Essays
― Why I Left America and Other Essays
