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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as black)
avg rating 4.40 — 369,627 ratings — published 2015
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 757,996 ratings — published 1982
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as black)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,020,113 ratings — published 2017
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 277,965 ratings — published 1979
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as black)
avg rating 3.99 — 390,475 ratings — published 1937
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as black)
avg rating 3.98 — 496,210 ratings — published 1987
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 306,507 ratings — published 1970
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as black)
avg rating 4.37 — 293,508 ratings — published 1965
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as black)
avg rating 4.30 — 586,039 ratings — published 1969
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as black)
avg rating 4.47 — 409,775 ratings — published 2016
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as black)
avg rating 4.12 — 864,235 ratings — published 2020
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,256 ratings — published 2010
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 99 times as black)
avg rating 4.55 — 123,955 ratings — published 1963
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 449,113 ratings — published 2016
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 94 times as black)
avg rating 4.19 — 272,012 ratings — published 1993
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as black)
avg rating 3.92 — 203,335 ratings — published 1952
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as black)
avg rating 4.11 — 252,715 ratings — published 2018
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,271 ratings — published 1903
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as black)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,209,824 ratings — published 2018
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 416,362 ratings — published 2013
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as black)
avg rating 4.29 — 194,023 ratings — published 2020
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as black)
avg rating 4.49 — 816,524 ratings — published 2016
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 118,332 ratings — published 2010
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 83,537 ratings — published 1953
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 101,645 ratings — published 2021
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 339,286 ratings — published 2015
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 70 times as black)
avg rating 4.25 — 312,702 ratings — published 2019
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as black)
avg rating 3.64 — 359,261 ratings — published 2018
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as black)
avg rating 4.26 — 267,160 ratings — published 2019
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,405 ratings — published 1984
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 136,260 ratings — published 1845
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,188 ratings — published 1940
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,903 ratings — published 2019
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as black)
avg rating 4.60 — 31,980 ratings — published 1987
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as black)
avg rating 3.92 — 82,108 ratings — published 1929
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,061 ratings — published 2018
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as black)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,807 ratings — published 2020
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black)
avg rating 3.77 — 580,168 ratings — published 2019
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 119,870 ratings — published 2019
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as black)
avg rating 4.35 — 64,128 ratings — published 2020
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as black)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,954 ratings — published 2019
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 143,051 ratings — published 2018
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,685 ratings — published 2016
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 3.75 — 416,223 ratings — published 1958
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 163,472 ratings — published 2020
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as black)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,364 ratings — published 2015
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as black)
avg rating 4.34 — 263,355 ratings — published 1956
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as black)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,081 ratings — published 1981
“All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide
like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;
but a hidden star can still be smiling
at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling”
―
like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;
but a hidden star can still be smiling
at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling”
―
“They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.”
― The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate
― The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate
