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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as black)
avg rating 4.40 — 364,722 ratings — published 2015
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as black)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,005,433 ratings — published 2017
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 749,311 ratings — published 1982
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 269,011 ratings — published 1979
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 298,525 ratings — published 1970
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as black)
avg rating 4.37 — 290,080 ratings — published 1965
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as black)
avg rating 3.98 — 487,986 ratings — published 1987
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as black)
avg rating 3.99 — 384,790 ratings — published 1937
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as black)
avg rating 4.47 — 399,951 ratings — published 2016
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as black)
avg rating 4.12 — 850,434 ratings — published 2020
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 104 times as black)
avg rating 4.30 — 578,529 ratings — published 1969
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,860 ratings — published 2010
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as black)
avg rating 4.55 — 119,902 ratings — published 1963
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 442,780 ratings — published 2016
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as black)
avg rating 4.19 — 258,981 ratings — published 1993
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as black)
avg rating 3.92 — 201,398 ratings — published 1952
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as black)
avg rating 4.11 — 249,998 ratings — published 2018
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 44,789 ratings — published 1903
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 410,500 ratings — published 2013
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as black)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,188,367 ratings — published 2018
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as black)
avg rating 4.30 — 187,147 ratings — published 2020
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as black)
avg rating 4.49 — 800,050 ratings — published 2016
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 116,213 ratings — published 2010
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 70 times as black)
avg rating 4.25 — 305,268 ratings — published 2019
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 100,235 ratings — published 2021
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as black)
avg rating 4.26 — 263,136 ratings — published 2019
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as black)
avg rating 4.60 — 31,014 ratings — published 1987
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 134,454 ratings — published 1845
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 3.64 — 349,436 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.29 — 330,523 ratings — published 2015
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,756 ratings — published 1984
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.05 — 81,072 ratings — published 1953
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,428 ratings — published 1940
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,184 ratings — published 2019
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 4.19 — 46,742 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,779 ratings — published 2018
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as black)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,804 ratings — published 1929
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 118,737 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 3.77 — 574,226 ratings — published 2019
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,515 ratings — published 2019
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 3.74 — 410,776 ratings — published 1958
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 160,268 ratings — published 2020
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 4.37 — 141,405 ratings — published 2018
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,340 ratings — published 2016
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as black)
avg rating 4.34 — 247,506 ratings — published 1956
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 62,861 ratings — published 2020
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as black)
avg rating 4.44 — 35,387 ratings — published 2015
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as black)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,083 ratings — published 1981
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as black)
avg rating 3.85 — 156,592 ratings — published 2019













