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The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.12 — 879,031 ratings — published 2020
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,037,583 ratings — published 2017
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.29 — 201,581 ratings — published 2020
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.47 — 423,512 ratings — published 2016
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.18 — 290,700 ratings — published 1993
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.63 — 372,860 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.28 — 350,642 ratings — published 2015
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.10 — 256,684 ratings — published 2018
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.31 — 290,209 ratings — published 1979
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.99 — 509,597 ratings — published 1987
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.77 — 587,140 ratings — published 2019
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 79 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.78 — 212,127 ratings — published 2019
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.97 — 235,212 ratings — published 2021
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.49 — 838,898 ratings — published 2016
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,234,138 ratings — published 2018
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.31 — 423,600 ratings — published 2013
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.28 — 769,143 ratings — published 1982
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.99 — 398,148 ratings — published 1937
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,641 ratings — published 2015
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.14 — 317,588 ratings — published 1970
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 64 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.99 — 112,620 ratings — published 2020
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.30 — 595,105 ratings — published 1969
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.32 — 135,710 ratings — published 2022
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.93 — 397,412 ratings — published 2018
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.12 — 103,778 ratings — published 2021
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.09 — 167,381 ratings — published 2020
When No One Is Watching (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.46 — 119,457 ratings — published 2020
The Other Black Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.35 — 84,321 ratings — published 2021
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.34 — 288,218 ratings — published 1956
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.41 — 585,969 ratings — published 2024
Pet (Pet, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.13 — 35,272 ratings — published 2019
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.35 — 65,758 ratings — published 2020
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.84 — 159,457 ratings — published 2019
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.83 — 82,350 ratings — published 2015
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,762 ratings — published 2019
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.39 — 339,506 ratings — published 2012
Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.07 — 103,410 ratings — published 2021
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,628 ratings — published 2018
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.06 — 456,625 ratings — published 2016
Cinderella Is Dead (ebook)
by (shelved 49 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.66 — 88,972 ratings — published 2020
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.83 — 80,468 ratings — published 2020
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.25 — 271,949 ratings — published 2019
This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2)
by (shelved 48 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.37 — 68,876 ratings — published 2024
Ring Shout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.92 — 66,621 ratings — published 2020
The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.98 — 56,988 ratings — published 2020
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,598 ratings — published 2019
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 47 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.28 — 205,053 ratings — published 2016
Bloodmarked (The Legendborn Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 46 times as black-author)
avg rating 4.28 — 92,943 ratings — published 2022
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.99 — 149,828 ratings — published 1999
The Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as black-author)
avg rating 3.77 — 42,029 ratings — published 2019
“[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
“Fayola wore nothing underneath. Nothing but skin in need of his touch. Hands, mouth and more. "Six months," she said, her voice a sultry whisper of repressed need.”
― Bearly Gold: A Goldilocks and the Three Bears Reimagining
― Bearly Gold: A Goldilocks and the Three Bears Reimagining
