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The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 788 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.28 — 742,787 ratings — published 1982
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 777 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.99 — 380,734 ratings — published 1937
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 736 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.97 — 481,616 ratings — published 1987
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 636 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 292,558 ratings — published 1970
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 572 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.40 — 359,971 ratings — published 2015
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 562 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.30 — 573,376 ratings — published 1969
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 534 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 437,964 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 524 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.31 — 263,246 ratings — published 1979
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 500 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 199,908 ratings — published 1952
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 472 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.45 — 995,061 ratings — published 2017
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 436 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,981,521 ratings — published 2009
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 425 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.15 — 125,217 ratings — published 1977
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 410 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.37 — 287,394 ratings — published 1965
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 395 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 840,576 ratings — published 2020
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 380 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.05 — 119,440 ratings — published 1973
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 366 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.04 — 103,816 ratings — published 1940
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 358 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.55 — 117,119 ratings — published 1963
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 355 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 793,288 ratings — published 2010
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 354 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.47 — 392,486 ratings — published 2016
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 352 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 132,925 ratings — published 1845
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 344 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.25 — 298,571 ratings — published 2019
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.05 — 79,490 ratings — published 1953
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 342 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,604 ratings — published 2010
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 332 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.93 — 381,793 ratings — published 2018
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 77,978 ratings — published 1929
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 317 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.45 — 425,633 ratings — published 2024
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 301 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,172,809 ratings — published 2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 294 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.00 — 146,847 ratings — published 2017
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 280 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.31 — 44,507 ratings — published 1903
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 276 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,839 ratings — published 2010
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 270 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.15 — 92,286 ratings — published 2014
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 261 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 304,547 ratings — published 2023
The Color of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.15 — 132,416 ratings — published 1996
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.45 — 164,058 ratings — published 1976
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.34 — 236,098 ratings — published 1956
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 235 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.20 — 248,277 ratings — published 1993
Black Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.09 — 55,571 ratings — published 1945
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 224 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.85 — 108,512 ratings — published 1959
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.27 — 78,390 ratings — published 1974
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,963 ratings — published 2020
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.96 — 72,278 ratings — published 2011
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.17 — 57,255 ratings — published 1861
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 207 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.23 — 123,843 ratings — published 1853
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
by (shelved 200 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.90 — 129,334 ratings — published 1976
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 199 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 117,651 ratings — published 2019
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 240,703 ratings — published 1852
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 199 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.31 — 405,892 ratings — published 2013
A Lesson Before Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.98 — 63,413 ratings — published 1993
March: Book One (March, #1)
by (shelved 188 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,943 ratings — published 2013
The Known World (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.84 — 44,654 ratings — published 2003
“I read aimlessly, until I learned to read selectively, with a purpose.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Words are power. The more words you know and can recognize, use, define, understand, the more power you will have as a human being... The more language you know, the more likely it is that no one can get over on you."
selection from book: Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy & Social Justice in Classroom & Community”
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selection from book: Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy & Social Justice in Classroom & Community”
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