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The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 790 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.28 — 743,545 ratings — published 1982
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 778 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.99 — 381,171 ratings — published 1937
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 742 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.97 — 482,198 ratings — published 1987
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 636 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 293,161 ratings — published 1970
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 574 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.40 — 360,422 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 — 573,948 ratings — published 1969
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 535 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 438,466 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 524 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.31 — 263,853 ratings — published 1979
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 500 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 200,214 ratings — published 1952
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 472 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.45 — 996,219 ratings — published 2017
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 436 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,983,971 ratings — published 2009
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 430 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.15 — 125,360 ratings — published 1977
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 410 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.37 — 287,721 ratings — published 1965
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 394 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.12 — 841,638 ratings — published 2020
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 380 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.05 — 119,776 ratings — published 1973
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 366 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.04 — 103,899 ratings — published 1940
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 360 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.55 — 117,393 ratings — published 1963
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 356 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 794,169 ratings — published 2010
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 354 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.47 — 393,351 ratings — published 2016
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 352 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 133,092 ratings — published 1845
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 343 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.25 — 299,358 ratings — published 2019
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.05 — 79,679 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 — 114,782 ratings — published 2010
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 332 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 78,194 ratings — published 1929
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 331 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.93 — 382,105 ratings — published 2018
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 319 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.45 — 431,473 ratings — published 2024
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 302 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,174,450 ratings — published 2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 292 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.00 — 147,001 ratings — published 2017
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.31 — 44,536 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 — 115,950 ratings — published 2010
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 270 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.15 — 92,334 ratings — published 2014
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 305,782 ratings — published 2023
The Color of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.15 — 132,506 ratings — published 1996
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.34 — 237,239 ratings — published 1956
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.45 — 164,114 ratings — published 1976
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 235 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.20 — 249,398 ratings — published 1993
Black Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.09 — 55,597 ratings — published 1945
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.27 — 78,615 ratings — published 1974
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 224 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.85 — 108,654 ratings — published 1959
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.53 — 158,226 ratings — published 2020
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.96 — 72,373 ratings — published 2011
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.17 — 57,347 ratings — published 1861
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 207 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.23 — 123,932 ratings — published 1853
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 117,780 ratings — published 2019
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.31 — 406,450 ratings — published 2013
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
by (shelved 200 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.90 — 129,387 ratings — published 1976
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 240,850 ratings — published 1852
A Lesson Before Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.98 — 63,470 ratings — published 1993
March: Book One (March, #1)
by (shelved 188 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,970 ratings — published 2013
The Known World (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.84 — 44,681 ratings — published 2003
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