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Harlem Renaissance Books
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Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.92 — 83,902 ratings — published 1929
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.99 — 394,880 ratings — published 1937
Cane (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,734 ratings — published 1923
Quicksand (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,085 ratings — published 1928
Home to Harlem (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,766 ratings — published 1928
The Blacker the Berry... (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,138 ratings — published 1927
Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,683 ratings — published 1929
Black No More (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,020 ratings — published 1931
Not Without Laughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,977 ratings — published 1930
Mules and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,533 ratings — published 1935
The New Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.11 — 919 ratings — published 1925
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.93 — 11,528 ratings — published 1912
The Collected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.36 — 18,317 ratings — published 1994
The Ways of White Folks (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.47 — 5,648 ratings — published 1934
The Weary Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,336 ratings — published 1925
Dust Tracks on a Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,419 ratings — published 1942
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,119 ratings — published 2020
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,504 ratings — published 1940
There Is Confusion (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.00 — 677 ratings — published 1924
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,616 ratings — published 1903
Infants of the Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 509 ratings — published 1932
Quicksand and Passing (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,620 ratings — published 1928
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,869 ratings — published 1952
The Conjure-Man Dies (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,343 ratings — published 1932
Amiable with Big Teeth (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.60 — 351 ratings — published 2017
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,107 ratings — published 1995
Nigger Heaven (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.37 — 282 ratings — published 1926
Romance in Marseille (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,733 ratings — published 2002
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.05 — 33,608 ratings — published 2018
The Big Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,052 ratings — published 1940
The Walls of Jericho (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.92 — 159 ratings — published 1928
When Harlem Was in Vogue (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.95 — 365 ratings — published 1981
Harlem Rhapsody (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,909 ratings — published 2025
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.21 — 436 ratings — published 1994
The Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,806 ratings — published 1995
Selected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.31 — 8,480 ratings — published 1959
Moses, Man of the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,831 ratings — published 1939
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.25 — 668 ratings — published 1927
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,148 ratings — published 2002
Banana Bottom (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 255 ratings — published 1933
Black Thunder (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.72 — 256 ratings — published 1936
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,595 ratings — published 1928
I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,016 ratings — published 1956
Black Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 56,376 ratings — published 1945
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,593 ratings — published 1979
Jonah's Gourd Vine (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,400 ratings — published 1934
The Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.27 — 13,914 ratings — published 1946
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,625 ratings — published 1938
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 3.86 — 391 ratings — published 2013
My Soul's High Song: The Collected Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as harlem-renaissance)
avg rating 4.25 — 72 ratings — published 1990
“Notwithstanding the memories of slavery, and in the face poverty, ignorance, terrorism, and subjugation still deeply woven into their lives, the embittered past of blacks was taken onto a much higher plane of intellectual and artistic consideration during the Renaissance.”
― Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
― Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
“The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.”
― Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
― Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
