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The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 492 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.12 — 861,367 ratings — published 2020
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 447 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,017,606 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 398 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.47 — 407,613 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 377 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 275,610 ratings — published 1979
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 369 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.98 — 494,285 ratings — published 1987
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 356 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.40 — 368,721 ratings — published 2015
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 356 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.19 — 269,134 ratings — published 1993
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 344 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.11 — 252,125 ratings — published 2018
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.13 — 304,762 ratings — published 1970
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 329 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 756,247 ratings — published 1982
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 319 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,206,014 ratings — published 2018
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 317 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.77 — 579,013 ratings — published 2019
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 389,090 ratings — published 1937
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 300 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 415,176 ratings — published 2013
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 298 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.64 — 357,020 ratings — published 2018
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 289 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.30 — 584,617 ratings — published 1969
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 273 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 337,436 ratings — published 2015
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 252 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.93 — 387,236 ratings — published 2018
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 246 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.55 — 123,117 ratings — published 1963
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.49 — 813,528 ratings — published 2016
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 447,865 ratings — published 2016
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 242 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.30 — 192,475 ratings — published 2020
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 240 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.78 — 208,626 ratings — published 2019
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 236 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.39 — 332,589 ratings — published 2012
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.34 — 259,885 ratings — published 1956
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 232 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.98 — 221,109 ratings — published 2021
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 227 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.85 — 157,540 ratings — published 2019
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.10 — 163,576 ratings — published 2020
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 218 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.25 — 311,220 ratings — published 2019
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 207 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.35 — 63,829 ratings — published 2020
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 204 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.26 — 266,324 ratings — published 2019
Black Cake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.08 — 229,597 ratings — published 2022
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.00 — 149,272 ratings — published 2017
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 119,615 ratings — published 2019
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.13 — 101,346 ratings — published 2021
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 185 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.75 — 415,022 ratings — published 1958
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,738 ratings — published 2019
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 125,821 ratings — published 1973
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.43 — 519,468 ratings — published 2024
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.92 — 202,871 ratings — published 1952
Monday's Not Coming (ebook)
by (shelved 176 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.26 — 82,354 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,973 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,916 ratings — published 2010
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
by (shelved 170 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.32 — 122,691 ratings — published 2022
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 169 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 111,023 ratings — published 2020
Open Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 90,127 ratings — published 2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.52 — 162,826 ratings — published 2020
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 165 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.84 — 80,973 ratings — published 2015
The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)
by (shelved 164 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.98 — 56,108 ratings — published 2020
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.12 — 68,596 ratings — published 2020
“I always questioned myself if we were ever like birds in our hearts. Were feelings ever set back home at the end of the day? I grew up to learn that we do have homes inside of us. It is all up to us to fly our feelings home.”
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“A border does not make one holy.
A passport does not make one pure.”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
A passport does not make one pure.”
― Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
