Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonNative Son by Richard WrightPassing by Nella LarsenThe Collected Poems by Langston HughesCane by Jean Toomer
The Harlem Renaissance
17th out of 142 books — 72 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XInvisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Best African American Books
250th out of 1,043 books — 1,139 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Illusionist's Apprentice by Kristy CambronBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughTender Is the Night by F. Scott FitzgeraldTrapping the Butterfly by Debra Parmley
I am '20s, hear me roar!
71st out of 483 books — 250 voters
A Love to Die For by Joseph SeechackThe Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 1 by M.H. AbramsAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2 by M.H. AbramsThe Portable Enlightenment Reader by Isaac Kramnick
World Lit From 1600 to the Present: Basic Seminar Texts
45th out of 129 books — 25 voters

A World of Possibility by Christopher ShieldsA World of Romance by Christopher ShieldsStories and Scripts by Zack LoveChildren of War by Astrid V.J.Beware the Little White Rabbit by Shannon Delany
Anthologies
56th out of 317 books — 174 voters
Love Least Expected by Meredith BondForever Friends by Shelagh WatkinsEnd of the Road by Jacques AntoineGetting Lucky by J.L. BeckThe Adventure of Creation by Holly Lisle
Best Anthologies
189th out of 1,122 books — 771 voters

Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonThe Color of Law by Richard RothsteinWithout Sanctuary by James AllenSegregating Sound by Karl Hagstrom MillerMedical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
Segregation in the United States (nonfiction)
40th out of 186 books — 22 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeWater for Elephants by Sara GruenOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThursday's Child by Sonya HartnettThe Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
New Historical Fiction
33rd out of 33 books — 48 voters

Becoming the Ex-Wife by Marsha GordonOnly Yesterday by Frederick Lewis AllenRising Tide by John M. BarryOne Summer by Bill Bryson1920 by Eric Burns
The Roaring Twenties in America (nonfiction)
118th out of 143 books — 17 voters
Hard Times by Studs TerkelThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy EganA Square Meal by Jane ZiegelmanHammer and Hoe by Robin D.G. KelleyDaily Life in the United States, 1920-1940 by David E. Kyvig
Hard Times: The Great Depression in the US (nonfiction)
121st out of 137 books — 11 voters

The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases by Paul OlaLove, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson by Tara T. GreenSee Me Naked by Tara T. GreenIntention by Ian D. BrooksBorn a Crime by Trevor Noah
Nonfiction by Black Authors
141st out of 318 books — 38 voters
Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert by Erica M. ElliottFlash of the Spirit by Robert Farris ThompsonAfrican Art by Frank WillettThe Image of the Black in Western Art by David BindmanColored Pictures by Michael D. Harris
The Books On Black Art History
174th out of 183 books — 16 voters

When Paris Sizzled by Mary McAuliffeBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughA Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayBohemian Paris by Dan FranckThe Sisters by Mary S. Lovell
Twisted '20s
47th out of 192 books — 27 voters
Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonWho Hears Here? by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.12 Years a Slave by Solomon NorthupThe Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King Jr.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Black American History by Black American Authors
114th out of 217 books — 21 voters

Behold the Land by James SmethurstNinth Street Women by Mary GabrielBut Will You Love Me Tomorrow? by Laura FlamHotbed by Joanna ScuttsWomen Artists and the Surrealist Movement by Whitney Chadwick
Creative Enclaves and Political Eras (Nonfiction/History)
105th out of 122 books — 5 voters


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