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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as black)
avg rating 4.40 — 364,661 ratings — published 2015
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as black)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,005,263 ratings — published 2017
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 749,204 ratings — published 1982
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 268,940 ratings — published 1979
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 298,434 ratings — published 1970
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as black)
avg rating 4.37 — 290,041 ratings — published 1965
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as black)
avg rating 3.98 — 487,912 ratings — published 1987
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as black)
avg rating 3.99 — 384,722 ratings — published 1937
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as black)
avg rating 4.47 — 399,825 ratings — published 2016
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as black)
avg rating 4.12 — 850,286 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 — 578,456 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 — 116,853 ratings — published 2010
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as black)
avg rating 4.55 — 119,859 ratings — published 1963
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 442,700 ratings — published 2016
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as black)
avg rating 4.19 — 258,828 ratings — published 1993
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as black)
avg rating 3.92 — 201,375 ratings — published 1952
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as black)
avg rating 4.11 — 249,967 ratings — published 2018
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 44,784 ratings — published 1903
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 410,420 ratings — published 2013
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as black)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,188,066 ratings — published 2018
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as black)
avg rating 4.30 — 187,075 ratings — published 2020
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as black)
avg rating 4.49 — 799,824 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 — 116,183 ratings — published 2010
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 70 times as black)
avg rating 4.25 — 305,190 ratings — published 2019
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 100,213 ratings — published 2021
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as black)
avg rating 4.26 — 263,093 ratings — published 2019
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as black)
avg rating 4.60 — 31,003 ratings — published 1987
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 134,431 ratings — published 1845
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 3.64 — 349,318 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.29 — 330,414 ratings — published 2015
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,748 ratings — published 1984
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.05 — 81,048 ratings — published 1953
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,430 ratings — published 1940
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,179 ratings — published 2019
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 4.19 — 46,723 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 — 79,781 ratings — published 1929
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 118,724 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 3.77 — 574,174 ratings — published 2019
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,507 ratings — published 2019
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 3.74 — 410,690 ratings — published 1958
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 160,236 ratings — published 2020
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 4.37 — 141,378 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 — 38,338 ratings — published 2016
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as black)
avg rating 4.34 — 247,323 ratings — published 1956
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 62,854 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 — 35,372 ratings — published 2015
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as black)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,074 ratings — published 1981
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as black)
avg rating 3.85 — 156,581 ratings — published 2019
“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.”
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“but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical
dilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the point
my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too beautiful to have thrown back on my face
my love is too sanctified to have thrown back on my face
my love is too magic to have thrown back on my face
my love is too saturday nite to have thrown back on my face
my love is too complicated to have thrown back on my face
my love is too music to have thrown back on my face”
― For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
dilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the point
my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too beautiful to have thrown back on my face
my love is too sanctified to have thrown back on my face
my love is too magic to have thrown back on my face
my love is too saturday nite to have thrown back on my face
my love is too complicated to have thrown back on my face
my love is too music to have thrown back on my face”
― For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
