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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as black)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,247 ratings — published 2015
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 772,954 ratings — published 1982
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as black)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,043,191 ratings — published 2017
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 294,706 ratings — published 1979
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as black)
avg rating 4.14 — 323,293 ratings — published 1970
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as black)
avg rating 4.00 — 400,579 ratings — published 1937
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as black)
avg rating 3.99 — 514,279 ratings — published 1987
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as black)
avg rating 4.37 — 299,827 ratings — published 1965
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as black)
avg rating 4.47 — 428,525 ratings — published 2016
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as black)
avg rating 4.30 — 598,119 ratings — published 1969
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,465 ratings — published 2010
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 108 times as black)
avg rating 4.55 — 130,190 ratings — published 1963
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as black)
avg rating 4.11 — 883,829 ratings — published 2020
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as black)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,687 ratings — published 1993
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 459,621 ratings — published 2016
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as black)
avg rating 3.93 — 206,799 ratings — published 1952
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as black)
avg rating 4.10 — 259,296 ratings — published 2018
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,976 ratings — published 1903
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 426,371 ratings — published 2013
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 203,441 ratings — published 2020
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as black)
avg rating 3.63 — 379,889 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 847,489 ratings — published 2016
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 122,269 ratings — published 2010
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 87,910 ratings — published 1953
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as black)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,243,104 ratings — published 2018
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 74 times as black)
avg rating 4.25 — 326,018 ratings — published 2019
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 354,282 ratings — published 2015
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as black)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,779 ratings — published 1940
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as black)
avg rating 4.12 — 104,327 ratings — published 2021
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as black)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,839 ratings — published 1845
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as black)
avg rating 3.91 — 86,236 ratings — published 1929
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,689 ratings — published 1984
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.25 — 273,565 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,010 ratings — published 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,744 ratings — published 2018
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as black)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,468 ratings — published 1987
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as black)
avg rating 4.34 — 300,777 ratings — published 1956
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as black)
avg rating 4.18 — 49,584 ratings — published 2020
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as black)
avg rating 3.75 — 426,237 ratings — published 1958
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,774 ratings — published 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 168,034 ratings — published 2020
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as black)
avg rating 3.77 — 589,256 ratings — published 2019
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 121,636 ratings — published 2019
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,339 ratings — published 2016
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 3.97 — 238,915 ratings — published 2021
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,190 ratings — published 2020
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 145,850 ratings — published 2018
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 4.17 — 135,013 ratings — published 1977
“I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.”
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“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.”
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