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Afro Books
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 592,026 ratings — published 1969
Americanah (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 421,092 ratings — published 2013
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 421,087 ratings — published 1958
The Color Purple (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 765,181 ratings — published 1982
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 148,019 ratings — published 2003
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 35,884 ratings — published 1981
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,031,437 ratings — published 2017
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 296,581 ratings — published 1965
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 313,417 ratings — published 1970
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 830,359 ratings — published 2016
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 84,164 ratings — published 1929
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 277,731 ratings — published 1956
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 188,862 ratings — published 2006
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 20,094 ratings — published 1952
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 51,160 ratings — published 2008
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D. (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.47 — 2,139 ratings — published 1971
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 283,472 ratings — published 1993
Homegoing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 418,515 ratings — published 2016
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 453,879 ratings — published 2016
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 85,515 ratings — published 1953
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 372,998 ratings — published 2015
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 86,659 ratings — published 1974
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 45,662 ratings — published 1903
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
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avg rating 4.55 — 126,865 ratings — published 1963
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 395,491 ratings — published 1937
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 146,607 ratings — published 1999
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 120,480 ratings — published 2019
Freshwater (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 37,601 ratings — published 2018
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 19,908 ratings — published 1981
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
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avg rating 3.87 — 13,384 ratings — published 1961
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,567 ratings — published 1974
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 10,232 ratings — published 1933
Invisible Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 205,108 ratings — published 1952
The Collected Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 18,318 ratings — published 1994
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 34,003 ratings — published 1961
White Teeth (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 178,290 ratings — published 2000
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 16,483 ratings — published 1986
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 137,553 ratings — published 1845
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
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avg rating 4.32 — 89,888 ratings — published 1998
Nations nègres et culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 121 ratings — published 1995
Another Country (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 36,135 ratings — published 1962
Open Water (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 92,649 ratings — published 2021
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.25 — 270,362 ratings — published 2019
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 101,762 ratings — published 2017
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 67,573 ratings — published 2017
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 165,747 ratings — published 2020
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