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Black History Month Books
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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.45 — 995,491 ratings — published 2017
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.13 — 840,965 ratings — published 2020
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.28 — 743,042 ratings — published 1982
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.30 — 573,598 ratings — published 1969
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 3.97 — 481,800 ratings — published 1987
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 3.99 — 380,881 ratings — published 1937
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.40 — 360,131 ratings — published 2015
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.06 — 438,161 ratings — published 2016
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.47 — 392,832 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,888 ratings — published 2010
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,173,416 ratings — published 2018
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.31 — 263,443 ratings — published 1979
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.37 — 287,517 ratings — published 1965
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.55 — 117,209 ratings — published 1963
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.13 — 292,768 ratings — published 1970
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.31 — 406,098 ratings — published 2013
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,678 ratings — published 2010
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.49 — 787,723 ratings — published 2016
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.06 — 117,689 ratings — published 2019
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 3.92 — 199,973 ratings — published 1952
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 3.74 — 406,477 ratings — published 1958
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.13 — 793,599 ratings — published 2010
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 22 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.25 — 298,846 ratings — published 2019
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.15 — 92,307 ratings — published 2014
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.20 — 248,715 ratings — published 1993
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.33 — 12,856 ratings — published 2001
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 3.77 — 570,104 ratings — published 2019
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.44 — 34,626 ratings — published 2015
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 20 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.16 — 170,947 ratings — published 2018
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.31 — 44,517 ratings — published 1903
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.31 — 181,209 ratings — published 2020
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.37 — 100,305 ratings — published 2017
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.11 — 247,907 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,540 ratings — published 2018
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.49 — 16,600 ratings — published 2007
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.47 — 53,762 ratings — published 2020
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 3.93 — 381,912 ratings — published 2018
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,095 ratings — published 2016
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.05 — 119,556 ratings — published 1973
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.45 — 427,736 ratings — published 2024
Take My Hand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.36 — 105,304 ratings — published 2022
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.34 — 236,510 ratings — published 1956
The Story of Ruby Bridges (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.44 — 12,982 ratings — published 1995
Open Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.00 — 84,982 ratings — published 2021
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.36 — 61,832 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.36 — 118,727 ratings — published 2019
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.59 — 33,634 ratings — published 1981
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.13 — 132,986 ratings — published 1845
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.05 — 79,559 ratings — published 1953
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 3.96 — 112,690 ratings — published 2016
“I look around. You'd have to be out of your fucking mind to write, as Marcus did, that Black History Month is a ploy to lever more entitlement money out of Congress, but the ho-hum nonresponse of the white crowd reading this bit of transparent insanity is, to me, even weirder.”
― Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
― Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
“Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.”
― Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
― Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
