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
112th out of 1,043 books — 1,141 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerKindred by Octavia E. ButlerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBeloved by Toni MorrisonRoots by Alex Haley
Best Black Historical Fiction
54th out of 336 books — 343 voters

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
21st out of 142 books — 73 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!
104th out of 484 books — 251 voters

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James BaldwinThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasThe Short Stories by Langston HughesLegendborn by Tracy DeonnForging a Nightmare by Patricia A. Jackson
Fiction by Black Authors
3rd out of 79 books — 17 voters
Rhinoceros Dreams by Jessica KnaussLove, Life and Everything Else by Xunaira J.Found Money by Peter Watson JenkinsSelected Stories of Morley Roberts by Morley RobertsThe Button Collector by Elizabeth Jennings
Short Stories Collection - Single Author
227th out of 281 books — 260 voters

What Went Missing and What Got Found by Fatima ShaikDrinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. PackerBefore You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle EvansThe Best of Simple by Langston HughesAll Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones
Great African American Short Story Collections
43rd out of 133 books — 63 voters
Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark by Charlie J. EskewGo Tell It on the Mountain by James BaldwinThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonBlack Boy by Richard WrightI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Racism From a Black Perspective: Getting Beyond To Kill a Mockingbird
35th out of 35 books — 18 voters

The Return of Simple by Langston HughesBloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. ButlerRattlebone by Maxine ClairThe Matter Is Life by J. California CooperTrouble No More by Anthony Grooms
Short Story Collections by African-Americans Published in Decade: 1990s
20th out of 23 books — 2 voters
Juneteenth by Ralph EllisonThrough the Ivory Gate by Rita DoveBlood Red Blues by Teddy HayesA Long Way From Home by Connie BriscoeI Get on the Bus by Reginald McKnight
Adult Literary Fiction by African-Americans Published in Decade: 1990s
70th out of 73 books — 2 voters

Captain from Castile by Samuel ShellabargerYou Bright and Risen Angels by William T. VollmannLewis & Clark by Stephen E. AmbroseNop's Trials by Donald McCaigMaps of the Ancient Sea Kings by Charles H. Hapgood
Books with an Average Rating of 4.0 and above, 100 to 999 ratings, published before 2001
601st out of 1,320 books — 23 voters
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersSelected Stories by Alice MunroRunaway by Alice MunroTwenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money by Rebecca CurtisSelected Stories of Andre Dubus by Andre Dubus
Personal Favorites: Short Story Collections
120th out of 153 books — 8 voters

Nine Stories by J.D. SalingerDubliners by James JoyceA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Collections of Short Stories
1931st out of 2,905 books — 2,049 voters
The Cannonball Run by Michael AvalloneThe Short Stories by Langston HughesHot Rod Patrol by R. Sidney BowenThe Steinbeck Pocket Book by John SteinbeckIsland of the Damned by Joseph Rosenberger
Random Literary Mix 21
2nd out of 100 books — 1 voter


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