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The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 777,363 ratings — published 1982
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as black)
avg rating 4.40 — 378,203 ratings — published 2015
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as black)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,049,278 ratings — published 2017
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 299,557 ratings — published 1979
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as black)
avg rating 4.00 — 403,503 ratings — published 1937
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as black)
avg rating 4.14 — 330,863 ratings — published 1970
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as black)
avg rating 3.99 — 520,236 ratings — published 1987
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as black)
avg rating 4.37 — 302,189 ratings — published 1965
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as black)
avg rating 4.46 — 433,639 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 121,035 ratings — published 2010
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as black)
avg rating 4.30 — 601,706 ratings — published 1969
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as black)
avg rating 4.55 — 132,115 ratings — published 1963
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as black)
avg rating 4.11 — 889,439 ratings — published 2020
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 104 times as black)
avg rating 4.18 — 303,819 ratings — published 1993
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 463,517 ratings — published 2016
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as black)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,790 ratings — published 1952
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as black)
avg rating 4.10 — 261,796 ratings — published 2018
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,158 ratings — published 1903
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 429,090 ratings — published 2013
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 205,422 ratings — published 2020
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 857,749 ratings — published 2016
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as black)
avg rating 3.63 — 387,541 ratings — published 2018
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as black)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,255,403 ratings — published 2018
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 76 times as black)
avg rating 4.25 — 330,733 ratings — published 2019
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 358,293 ratings — published 2015
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 123,557 ratings — published 2010
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as black)
avg rating 4.05 — 108,285 ratings — published 1940
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 89,144 ratings — published 1953
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as black)
avg rating 4.12 — 105,035 ratings — published 2021
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as black)
avg rating 4.14 — 140,446 ratings — published 1845
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 43,007 ratings — published 1984
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as black)
avg rating 3.91 — 87,761 ratings — published 1929
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,318 ratings — published 2019
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.25 — 275,242 ratings — published 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 109,062 ratings — published 2018
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,816 ratings — published 1987
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.34 — 313,379 ratings — published 1956
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 170,066 ratings — published 2020
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as black)
avg rating 4.18 — 50,112 ratings — published 2020
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as black)
avg rating 3.75 — 429,457 ratings — published 1958
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 4.26 — 102,018 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as black)
avg rating 3.77 — 591,403 ratings — published 2019
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black)
avg rating 3.97 — 241,849 ratings — published 2021
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,512 ratings — published 2016
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 122,383 ratings — published 2019
Ring Shout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 3.92 — 71,110 ratings — published 2020
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,657 ratings — published 2020
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 146,901 ratings — published 2018
“And that is why I hate dogs."
" . . . woof."
--Sebastian and Ceiel”
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" . . . woof."
--Sebastian and Ceiel”
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“They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.”
― The Gunslinger
― The Gunslinger
