Black


Between the World and Me
The Hate U Give
The Color Purple
Kindred
The Bluest Eye
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Homegoing
The Vanishing Half
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Fire Next Time
The Underground Railroad
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerKindred by Octavia E. ButlerBeloved by Toni MorrisonI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Books by Black Authors
909 books — 366 voters
The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister SouljahThe Cartel by Ashley  AntoinetteThe Cartel 2 by Ashley  AntoinetteThe Cartel 3 by Ashley  AntoinetteAddicted by Zane
The Hottest Urban Fiction
416 books — 471 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniLife of Pi by Yann MartelThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeDown and Rising by Rohith S. Katbamna
Best Multicultural General Fiction
588 books — 376 voters
Go Fetch! by Shelly LaurenstonBeast by Pepper PaceThe Grunt 1 by Latrivia S. NelsonBeast Behaving Badly by Shelly LaurenstonDaddy's Game by Normandie Alleman
African American Lead: Romance
414 books — 148 voters

Dennis Cooper
I like flat black. It doesn't try to explain anything, and it's been hip since before I was born, I guess. ...more
Dennis Cooper, Closer

Angie Thomas
But I'm tired of them just assuming. ...more
Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

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