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The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.12 — 860,717 ratings — published 2020
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,017,079 ratings — published 2017
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.30 — 192,114 ratings — published 2020
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.47 — 407,152 ratings — published 2016
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.28 — 337,056 ratings — published 2015
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.19 — 268,502 ratings — published 1993
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.64 — 356,567 ratings — published 2018
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.11 — 252,007 ratings — published 2018
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.31 — 275,064 ratings — published 1979
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 79 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.98 — 493,876 ratings — published 1987
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.77 — 578,734 ratings — published 2019
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.78 — 208,497 ratings — published 2019
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.98 — 220,734 ratings — published 2021
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,205,179 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.49 — 812,860 ratings — published 2016
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.31 — 414,935 ratings — published 2013
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.40 — 368,475 ratings — published 2015
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.28 — 755,856 ratings — published 1982
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.99 — 388,786 ratings — published 1937
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 62 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.99 — 110,952 ratings — published 2020
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.13 — 304,341 ratings — published 1970
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.30 — 584,286 ratings — published 1969
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.10 — 163,454 ratings — published 2020
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.93 — 387,004 ratings — published 2018
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.32 — 122,199 ratings — published 2022
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.13 — 101,262 ratings — published 2021
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.34 — 259,057 ratings — published 1956
The Other Black Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.35 — 83,431 ratings — published 2021
When No One Is Watching (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.47 — 115,369 ratings — published 2020
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.43 — 516,777 ratings — published 2024
Pet (Pet, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.13 — 34,497 ratings — published 2019
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.35 — 63,754 ratings — published 2020
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.85 — 157,485 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,709 ratings — published 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,957 ratings — published 2018
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.84 — 80,916 ratings — published 2015
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.39 — 332,405 ratings — published 2012
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.84 — 78,717 ratings — published 2020
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.26 — 266,184 ratings — published 2019
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.06 — 447,595 ratings — published 2016
Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3)
by (shelved 48 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.07 — 101,541 ratings — published 2021
Ring Shout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.93 — 59,465 ratings — published 2020
Cinderella Is Dead (ebook)
by (shelved 47 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.66 — 87,454 ratings — published 2020
The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.98 — 56,074 ratings — published 2020
Bloodmarked (The Legendborn Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 45 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.29 — 87,613 ratings — published 2022
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,828 ratings — published 2019
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 45 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.29 — 197,868 ratings — published 2016
The Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.77 — 40,483 ratings — published 2019
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,534 ratings — published 2020
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
by (shelved 43 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.33 — 168,286 ratings — published 2017
“[Art] must reflect the world in all its brutality and beauty, not in hopes of changing it but in the mean and selfish desire to not be enrolled in its lie, to not be coopted by the television dreams, to not ignore the great crimes all around us.”
― We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
― We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
“Don't let anyone shame you into becoming hopeless. It's ok to be hopeful. Hope doesn't deny reality. You're simply allowing space for your optimism to become the reality.”
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