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Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as afro)
avg rating 4.31 — 425,739 ratings — published 2013
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 425,621 ratings — published 1958
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as afro)
avg rating 4.30 — 597,380 ratings — published 1969
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as afro)
avg rating 4.28 — 772,049 ratings — published 1982
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as afro)
avg rating 4.18 — 150,752 ratings — published 2003
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as afro)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,655 ratings — published 1981
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as afro)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,041,916 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as afro)
avg rating 4.48 — 845,332 ratings — published 2016
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 297,699 ratings — published 1956
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as afro)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,537 ratings — published 1952
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
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avg rating 4.55 — 129,802 ratings — published 1963
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as afro)
avg rating 4.37 — 299,366 ratings — published 1965
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 321,832 ratings — published 1970
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 85,973 ratings — published 1929
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 192,163 ratings — published 2006
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 89,218 ratings — published 1974
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 34,858 ratings — published 1961
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 51,772 ratings — published 2008
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D. (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as afro)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,150 ratings — published 1971
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 295,949 ratings — published 1993
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as afro)
avg rating 4.47 — 427,347 ratings — published 2016
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as afro)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,580 ratings — published 1961
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 458,915 ratings — published 2016
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 87,589 ratings — published 1953
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 375,774 ratings — published 2015
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 45,928 ratings — published 1903
Invisible Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 206,598 ratings — published 1952
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 400,057 ratings — published 1937
Nations nègres et culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 122 ratings — published 1995
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 152,523 ratings — published 1999
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 120,969 ratings — published 2019
Freshwater (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 38,107 ratings — published 2018
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 20,270 ratings — published 1981
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as afro)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,781 ratings — published 1964
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,573 ratings — published 1974
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 10,300 ratings — published 1933
The Collected Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 18,455 ratings — published 1994
White Teeth (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 180,465 ratings — published 2000
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 16,975 ratings — published 1986
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 138,607 ratings — published 1845
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
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avg rating 4.32 — 93,036 ratings — published 1998
Les impatientes (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as afro)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,524 ratings — published 2017
Dream Count (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as afro)
avg rating 3.77 — 54,450 ratings — published 2025
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as afro)
avg rating 4.10 — 258,668 ratings — published 2018
Another Country (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 37,239 ratings — published 1962
Open Water (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 94,457 ratings — published 2021
“We can all agree that tea is good for the body. However, tea is very good for our hair too.”
― The Natural Hair Journal
― The Natural Hair Journal
“When and where there is repression, what a woman does when she gets dressed in the morning may be considered political. Wearing or not wearing a veil, disobeying laws that prohibit transgender dressing, or wearing a large Afro in an institution that seeks to diminish the formation of racial alliances are all actions that can serve as challenges to domination”
― Ain't I a Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race
― Ain't I a Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race
