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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as black)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,366 ratings — published 2015
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 763,787 ratings — published 1982
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as black)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,028,998 ratings — published 2017
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 284,053 ratings — published 1979
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as black)
avg rating 3.98 — 502,807 ratings — published 1987
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as black)
avg rating 4.14 — 312,140 ratings — published 1970
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as black)
avg rating 3.99 — 394,548 ratings — published 1937
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as black)
avg rating 4.37 — 295,937 ratings — published 1965
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as black)
avg rating 4.47 — 416,864 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 — 590,875 ratings — published 1969
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as black)
avg rating 4.12 — 872,520 ratings — published 2020
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,166 ratings — published 2010
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 101 times as black)
avg rating 4.55 — 126,355 ratings — published 1963
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 452,944 ratings — published 2016
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as black)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,280 ratings — published 1993
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as black)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,755 ratings — published 1952
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as black)
avg rating 4.10 — 254,666 ratings — published 2018
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,585 ratings — published 1903
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 420,240 ratings — published 2013
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as black)
avg rating 4.29 — 198,303 ratings — published 2020
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as black)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,222,480 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as black)
avg rating 4.49 — 827,684 ratings — published 2016
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as black)
avg rating 3.63 — 366,788 ratings — published 2018
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 85,108 ratings — published 1953
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as black)
avg rating 4.12 — 102,623 ratings — published 2021
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 345,289 ratings — published 2015
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 119,917 ratings — published 2010
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as black)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,415 ratings — published 1940
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 70 times as black)
avg rating 4.25 — 317,327 ratings — published 2019
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,359 ratings — published 1845
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,947 ratings — published 1984
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.25 — 269,812 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,386 ratings — published 2019
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as black)
avg rating 3.92 — 83,773 ratings — published 1929
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,461 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,364 ratings — published 2018
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 4.60 — 32,619 ratings — published 1987
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as black)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,281 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as black)
avg rating 3.77 — 583,944 ratings — published 2019
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as black)
avg rating 3.75 — 420,160 ratings — published 1958
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 4.35 — 65,046 ratings — published 2020
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 144,190 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 165,353 ratings — published 2020
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 120,544 ratings — published 2019
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,948 ratings — published 2016
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as black)
avg rating 4.34 — 274,735 ratings — published 1956
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as black)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,734 ratings — published 1981
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as black)
avg rating 4.16 — 131,812 ratings — published 1977
“The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: 'booze affects material as it does people'.”
― The Lovely Bones
― The Lovely Bones
“But I'm tired of them just assuming.”
― The Hate U Give
― The Hate U Give
