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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as black)
avg rating 4.40 — 360,259 ratings — published 2015
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as black)
avg rating 4.45 — 995,862 ratings — published 2017
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 743,324 ratings — published 1982
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 263,671 ratings — published 1979
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as black)
avg rating 4.37 — 287,604 ratings — published 1965
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 292,977 ratings — published 1970
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as black)
avg rating 4.47 — 393,124 ratings — published 2016
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as black)
avg rating 3.99 — 381,020 ratings — published 1937
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 104 times as black)
avg rating 3.97 — 482,023 ratings — published 1987
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 841,342 ratings — published 2020
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as black)
avg rating 4.30 — 573,762 ratings — published 1969
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,927 ratings — published 2010
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as black)
avg rating 4.55 — 117,288 ratings — published 1963
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 438,332 ratings — published 2016
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as black)
avg rating 4.11 — 247,997 ratings — published 2018
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as black)
avg rating 4.20 — 249,101 ratings — published 1993
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as black)
avg rating 3.92 — 200,165 ratings — published 1952
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 44,527 ratings — published 1903
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 406,270 ratings — published 2013
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as black)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,173,945 ratings — published 2018
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 181,462 ratings — published 2020
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,732 ratings — published 2010
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as black)
avg rating 4.49 — 788,043 ratings — published 2016
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 98,978 ratings — published 2021
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 67 times as black)
avg rating 4.25 — 299,121 ratings — published 2019
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as black)
avg rating 4.26 — 260,108 ratings — published 2019
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 133,039 ratings — published 1845
The Fifth Season (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as black)
avg rating 4.29 — 324,181 ratings — published 2015
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as black)
avg rating 4.04 — 103,873 ratings — published 1940
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 4.59 — 30,148 ratings — published 1987
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 4.05 — 79,630 ratings — published 1953
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 118,737 ratings — published 2019
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as black)
avg rating 3.64 — 339,455 ratings — published 2018
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,248 ratings — published 1984
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,194 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,556 ratings — published 2018
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 3.92 — 78,131 ratings — published 1929
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 3.74 — 406,640 ratings — published 1958
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 158,151 ratings — published 2020
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as black)
avg rating 3.77 — 570,263 ratings — published 2019
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 117,740 ratings — published 2019
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as black)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,105 ratings — published 2019
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,105 ratings — published 2016
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as black)
avg rating 4.37 — 140,012 ratings — published 2018
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as black)
avg rating 4.34 — 236,905 ratings — published 1956
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as black)
avg rating 3.85 — 155,707 ratings — published 2019
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 61,871 ratings — published 2020
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as black)
avg rating 4.44 — 34,653 ratings — published 2015
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as black)
avg rating 4.51 — 18,779 ratings — published 1981
“I like flat black. It doesn't try to explain anything, and it's been hip since before I was born, I guess.”
― Closer
― Closer
“Once again there was the desert, and that only.”
― The Gunslinger
― The Gunslinger
