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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 617 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.91 — 243,676 ratings — published 1937
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 605 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.20 — 483,798 ratings — published 1982
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 548 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.83 — 299,870 ratings — published 1987
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 455 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.03 — 150,867 ratings — published 1970
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 449 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.23 — 371,272 ratings — published 1969
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 427 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.40 — 178,024 ratings — published 2015
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 405 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,012,845 ratings — published 2009
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 401 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.51 — 394,829 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 395 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.86 — 148,873 ratings — published 1952
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 363 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.02 — 251,407 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.24 — 82,452 ratings — published 1979
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 330 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 541,610 ratings — published 2010
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.99 — 80,085 ratings — published 1940
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 79,518 ratings — published 1977
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.31 — 181,494 ratings — published 1965
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.93 — 55,542 ratings — published 1973
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.02 — 86,379 ratings — published 1845
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 252 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.02 — 40,849 ratings — published 1954
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 239 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.96 — 202,407 ratings — published 2018
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 239 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.42 — 139,538 ratings — published 2016
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 237 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.02 — 90,358 ratings — published 2017
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 233 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.15 — 56,700 ratings — published 2014
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 223 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.36 — 48,527 ratings — published 2010
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.50 — 37,929 ratings — published 1963
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 209 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.57 — 388,541 ratings — published 2018
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.28 — 30,361 ratings — published 1903
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.09 — 97,737 ratings — published 1996
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.50 — 47,105 ratings — published 2010
Black Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.05 — 45,462 ratings — published 1945
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.12 — 39,391 ratings — published 1861
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.44 — 139,573 ratings — published 1976
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.78 — 62,194 ratings — published 1959
The Known World (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.83 — 33,284 ratings — published 2003
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.86 — 185,934 ratings — published 1852
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 168 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.19 — 86,755 ratings — published 1853
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
by (shelved 168 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.83 — 108,073 ratings — published 1975
March: Book One (March, #1)
by (shelved 167 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.33 — 34,667 ratings — published 2013
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,073,599 ratings — published 2001
Push (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.84 — 46,596 ratings — published 1996
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.24 — 49,667 ratings — published 1956
Passing (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.85 — 18,465 ratings — published 1929
A Lesson Before Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.95 — 49,202 ratings — published 1993
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.88 — 178,125 ratings — published 1995
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as african-american)
avg rating 4.30 — 224,731 ratings — published 2013
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,253 ratings — published 2011
Bud, Not Buddy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.93 — 91,939 ratings — published 1999
Monster (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.72 — 57,576 ratings — published 1999
One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 141 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.98 — 26,191 ratings — published 2010
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.97 — 55,659 ratings — published 1995
Jazz (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as african-american)
avg rating 3.81 — 21,231 ratings — published 1992
“DNA has memory!”
― A Man from Another Land: How Finding My Roots Changed My Life
― A Man from Another Land: How Finding My Roots Changed My Life
“The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men strive to know.”
― The Souls of Black Folk
― The Souls of Black Folk
