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The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 476 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.13 — 840,828 ratings — published 2020
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 441 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.45 — 995,316 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 388 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.47 — 392,718 ratings — published 2016
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 359 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.97 — 481,745 ratings — published 1987
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 263,386 ratings — published 1979
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 344 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.40 — 360,078 ratings — published 2015
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 334 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.11 — 247,885 ratings — published 2018
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 326 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.20 — 248,566 ratings — published 1993
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 742,956 ratings — published 1982
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.13 — 292,701 ratings — published 1970
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 312 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,173,217 ratings — published 2018
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 312 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.77 — 570,028 ratings — published 2019
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 380,828 ratings — published 1937
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 292 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 406,035 ratings — published 2013
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 287 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.64 — 339,115 ratings — published 2018
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 277 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.30 — 573,521 ratings — published 1969
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 263 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.29 — 323,831 ratings — published 2015
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 246 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.93 — 381,872 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 243 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.49 — 787,585 ratings — published 2016
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.55 — 117,178 ratings — published 1963
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 237 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.79 — 204,847 ratings — published 2019
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 237 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 438,091 ratings — published 2016
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 237 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.39 — 324,146 ratings — published 2012
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.34 — 236,370 ratings — published 1956
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 211,782 ratings — published 2021
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 219 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 181,118 ratings — published 2020
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 219 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.85 — 155,655 ratings — published 2019
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.10 — 159,979 ratings — published 2020
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 209 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.25 — 298,750 ratings — published 2019
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 205 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.36 — 61,822 ratings — published 2020
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 199 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.26 — 259,917 ratings — published 2019
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.00 — 146,878 ratings — published 2017
Black Cake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 188 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.08 — 220,675 ratings — published 2022
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 185 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 117,677 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 184 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.36 — 118,730 ratings — published 2019
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 183 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.74 — 406,417 ratings — published 1958
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 179 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,533 ratings — published 2018
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.13 — 98,896 ratings — published 2021
Monday's Not Coming (ebook)
by (shelved 171 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.25 — 75,095 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,879 ratings — published 2010
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.92 — 199,946 ratings — published 1952
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.05 — 119,512 ratings — published 1973
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 166 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.00 — 109,243 ratings — published 2020
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.12 — 67,027 ratings — published 2020
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 163 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.84 — 79,366 ratings — published 2015
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.53 — 158,015 ratings — published 2020
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.22 — 108,577 ratings — published 2020
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
by (shelved 159 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.33 — 109,680 ratings — published 2022
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.62 — 257,219 ratings — published 2014
The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)
by (shelved 154 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 55,144 ratings — published 2020
“They call us forgotten.
Dust in the breeze.
But how do you forget
the roots of the trees?”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
Dust in the breeze.
But how do you forget
the roots of the trees?”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
“We are Kush.
We are Meroë.
But they won’t teach you this in school.
They won’t name the ancient rule,
They won’t tell you how far we reached.
Only how little we’re allowed to teach.”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
We are Meroë.
But they won’t teach you this in school.
They won’t name the ancient rule,
They won’t tell you how far we reached.
Only how little we’re allowed to teach.”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
