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The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 478 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.12 — 848,292 ratings — published 2020
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 441 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,002,950 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 385 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.47 — 398,138 ratings — published 2016
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 358 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.98 — 486,449 ratings — published 1987
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 358 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 267,645 ratings — published 1979
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 349 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.40 — 363,578 ratings — published 2015
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 338 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.11 — 249,510 ratings — published 2018
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 327 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.20 — 256,390 ratings — published 1993
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 324 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 747,806 ratings — published 1982
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 318 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.13 — 297,076 ratings — published 1970
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 316 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.77 — 573,268 ratings — published 2019
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 313 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,184,618 ratings — published 2018
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 309 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 383,763 ratings — published 1937
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 293 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 409,470 ratings — published 2013
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 287 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.64 — 347,061 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 — 577,317 ratings — published 1969
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
by (shelved 262 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.29 — 328,869 ratings — published 2015
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 247 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.93 — 383,988 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 241 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.49 — 796,722 ratings — published 2016
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 239 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.79 — 206,155 ratings — published 2019
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 441,717 ratings — published 2016
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 235 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.39 — 327,059 ratings — published 2012
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.55 — 119,111 ratings — published 1963
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 224 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.30 — 185,945 ratings — published 2020
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 223 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 215,379 ratings — published 2021
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.34 — 244,534 ratings — published 1956
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 220 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.85 — 156,368 ratings — published 2019
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 215 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.10 — 161,147 ratings — published 2020
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 210 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.25 — 303,813 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 — 62,626 ratings — published 2020
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 197 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.26 — 262,403 ratings — published 2019
Black Cake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 188 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.08 — 223,886 ratings — published 2022
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.00 — 147,947 ratings — published 2017
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 185 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,070 ratings — published 2019
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 184 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 118,540 ratings — published 2019
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 182 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.74 — 409,719 ratings — published 1958
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.13 — 99,939 ratings — published 2021
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,726 ratings — published 2018
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.92 — 201,094 ratings — published 1952
Monday's Not Coming (ebook)
by (shelved 172 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.25 — 77,338 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 — 116,621 ratings — published 2010
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.05 — 121,663 ratings — published 1973
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 168 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 109,860 ratings — published 2020
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
by (shelved 164 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.33 — 113,942 ratings — published 2022
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.22 — 109,242 ratings — published 2020
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 163 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.84 — 79,989 ratings — published 2015
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.12 — 67,652 ratings — published 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as black-authors)
avg rating 4.52 — 159,726 ratings — published 2020
The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)
by (shelved 155 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.98 — 55,526 ratings — published 2020
The Other Black Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as black-authors)
avg rating 3.35 — 82,926 ratings — published 2021
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“To the women that carried my spiritual bones when my own wrists were too loose, my mama. I use the word women because she is a lot of women in one.”
― In the midst of the womb
― In the midst of the womb
“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
