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Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as woc)
avg rating 4.31 — 428,300 ratings — published 2013
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as woc)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,047,737 ratings — published 2017
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as woc)
avg rating 4.28 — 776,110 ratings — published 1982
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as woc)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,359,575 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as woc)
avg rating 4.46 — 432,319 ratings — published 2016
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as woc)
avg rating 4.11 — 887,933 ratings — published 2020
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as woc)
avg rating 3.91 — 121,450 ratings — published 2014
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as woc)
avg rating 3.63 — 385,432 ratings — published 2018
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as woc)
avg rating 4.34 — 703,878 ratings — published 2017
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as woc)
avg rating 4.39 — 343,394 ratings — published 2012
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as woc)
avg rating 3.77 — 590,841 ratings — published 2019
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as woc)
avg rating 3.93 — 404,190 ratings — published 2018
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as woc)
avg rating 4.00 — 402,617 ratings — published 1937
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as woc)
avg rating 4.30 — 600,789 ratings — published 1969
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as woc)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,697 ratings — published 2017
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 27 times as woc)
avg rating 4.17 — 124,192 ratings — published 2017
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as woc)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,252,318 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as woc)
avg rating 4.28 — 357,144 ratings — published 2015
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as woc)
avg rating 4.14 — 328,794 ratings — published 1970
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as woc)
avg rating 3.79 — 181,788 ratings — published 2000
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as woc)
avg rating 4.10 — 261,180 ratings — published 2018
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as woc)
avg rating 4.18 — 302,237 ratings — published 1993
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as woc)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,186,731 ratings — published 2023
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as woc)
avg rating 4.22 — 653,688 ratings — published 2021
Milk and honey (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as woc)
avg rating 3.95 — 844,308 ratings — published 2014
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 4.22 — 112,531 ratings — published 2020
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 4.09 — 169,089 ratings — published 2020
The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 3.56 — 167,463 ratings — published 2018
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 3.79 — 110,822 ratings — published 2017
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 3.83 — 629,380 ratings — published 2014
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,974 ratings — published 2018
The Mothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 3.88 — 131,608 ratings — published 2016
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 4.24 — 53,392 ratings — published 2014
The Book of Unknown Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 3.90 — 47,309 ratings — published 2014
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 3.67 — 253,780 ratings — published 1984
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 4.28 — 242,999 ratings — published 2003
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,925 ratings — published 1984
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 4.36 — 146,646 ratings — published 2018
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 3.66 — 415,157 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 4.18 — 152,331 ratings — published 2003
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 4.34 — 194,033 ratings — published 2006
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 4.59 — 37,106 ratings — published 1981
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 3.97 — 719,996 ratings — published 1989
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as woc)
avg rating 3.78 — 213,799 ratings — published 2019
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as woc)
avg rating 3.86 — 516,080 ratings — published 2018
The Leavers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as woc)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,848 ratings — published 2017
“A black woman making art is a disruptive act. Every story that I tell as a woman is a political act, even if I want to tell a 'silly love story.' The fact it exists through my gaze is radical.”
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“We walked in wisdom with our shadows, in search of the dead part of ourselves, which would be our shelter.”
― Nehanda
― Nehanda
