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Black Science Fiction Books
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Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 263,468 ratings — published 1979
Fledgling (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 38,346 ratings — published 2005
An Unkindness of Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 21,367 ratings — published 2017
Babel-17 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.72 — 19,722 ratings — published 1966
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.32 — 80,433 ratings — published 1998
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 248,754 ratings — published 1993
Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.74 — 16,728 ratings — published 2017
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 61,718 ratings — published 1987
Who Fears Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,018 ratings — published 2010
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,437 ratings — published 2000
Brown Girl in the Ring (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,415 ratings — published 1998
Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3)
by (shelved 3 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 21,679 ratings — published 1987
Black No More (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,639 ratings — published 1931
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 247,918 ratings — published 2018
The Lesson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.57 — 3,840 ratings — published 2019
The Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.77 — 39,219 ratings — published 2019
Ring Shout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 49,313 ratings — published 2020
Riot Baby (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.71 — 11,839 ratings — published 2020
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,999 ratings — published 2019
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,274 ratings — published 2015
The Intuitionist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.62 — 16,254 ratings — published 1999
Wild Seed (Patternist, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 38,909 ratings — published 1980
The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 52 ratings — published
Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.39 — 1,367 ratings — published 1902
Binti: The Complete Trilogy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,937 ratings — published 2019
Death of the Author (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,576 ratings — published 2025
Afromyth: A Fantasy Collection (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 19 ratings — published 2017
Water Baby (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.79 — 146 ratings — published
The Fall of the Towers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.63 — 646 ratings — published 1970
No Gods, No Monsters (Convergence Saga, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,691 ratings — published 2021
We Are the Crisis (Convergence Saga, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 690 ratings — published 2023
An Intrigue of Witches (Secret Society Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,057 ratings — published 2024
Race in American Science Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 30 ratings — published 2010
Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 204 ratings — published
Black Sci-Fi Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.74 — 137 ratings — published 2021
Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 147 ratings — published 2019
New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 194 ratings — published 2023
Octavia E. Butler (Modern Masters of Science Fiction)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.48 — 86 ratings — published
Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 24,008 ratings — published 1989
Survivor (Patternist, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,396 ratings — published 1978
Patternmaster (Patternist, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 10,746 ratings — published 1976
Clay's Ark (Patternist, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 11,923 ratings — published 1984
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 390 ratings — published 2004
Mind of My Mind (Patternist, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 15,320 ratings — published 1977
Mojo: Conjure Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 206 ratings — published 2003
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 999 ratings — published 2022
AfroSFv3 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.70 — 33 ratings — published 2018
AfroSFv2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.61 — 23 ratings — published 2015
Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.32 — 25 ratings — published 2013
AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as black-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 297 ratings — published 2012
“Find your self love. Find that precious thing inside you that
makes you want to live. And when you’ve found it, hold on to it with one
hand, and use the other to claw your way back home.
-Ripple”
― The Time of Legend
makes you want to live. And when you’ve found it, hold on to it with one
hand, and use the other to claw your way back home.
-Ripple”
― The Time of Legend
“Man leave the past in the past. That's where it belongs. The trouble with addicts is that they carry bad memories around with them - like old luggage. And in that luggage that's where they carry their blueprint for living. You got to decide what's worth keeping, and then set the rest of it on the curb for the garbage.
-Joseph”
― Immortal
-Joseph”
― Immortal
