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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as black)
avg rating 4.40 — 360,255 ratings — published 2015
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as black)
avg rating 4.45 — 995,852 ratings — published 2017
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as black)
avg rating 4.28 — 743,313 ratings — published 1982
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 263,659 ratings — published 1979
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as black)
avg rating 4.37 — 287,599 ratings — published 1965
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 292,955 ratings — published 1970
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as black)
avg rating 4.47 — 393,109 ratings — published 2016
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as black)
avg rating 3.99 — 381,015 ratings — published 1937
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 104 times as black)
avg rating 3.97 — 482,014 ratings — published 1987
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 841,327 ratings — published 2020
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as black)
avg rating 4.30 — 573,754 ratings — published 1969
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as black)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,927 ratings — published 2010
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as black)
avg rating 4.55 — 117,286 ratings — published 1963
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 438,318 ratings — published 2016
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as black)
avg rating 4.11 — 247,988 ratings — published 2018
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as black)
avg rating 3.92 — 200,160 ratings — published 1952
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as black)
avg rating 4.20 — 249,081 ratings — published 1993
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 44,525 ratings — published 1903
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 406,258 ratings — published 2013
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as black)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,173,914 ratings — published 2018
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as black)
avg rating 4.31 — 181,444 ratings — published 2020
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,728 ratings — published 2010
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as black)
avg rating 4.49 — 788,013 ratings — published 2016
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 98,974 ratings — published 2021
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 67 times as black)
avg rating 4.25 — 299,107 ratings — published 2019
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 66 times as black)
avg rating 4.26 — 260,104 ratings — published 2019
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as black)
avg rating 4.13 — 133,033 ratings — published 1845
The Fifth Season (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as black)
avg rating 4.29 — 324,164 ratings — published 2015
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as black)
avg rating 4.04 — 103,870 ratings — published 1940
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 4.59 — 30,145 ratings — published 1987
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as black)
avg rating 4.05 — 79,627 ratings — published 1953
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 118,734 ratings — published 2019
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as black)
avg rating 3.64 — 339,449 ratings — published 2018
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,245 ratings — published 1984
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,194 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,557 ratings — published 2018
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as black)
avg rating 3.92 — 78,131 ratings — published 1929
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as black)
avg rating 3.74 — 406,631 ratings — published 1958
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 158,143 ratings — published 2020
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as black)
avg rating 4.06 — 117,740 ratings — published 2019
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as black)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,106 ratings — published 2019
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as black)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,105 ratings — published 2016
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as black)
avg rating 3.77 — 570,255 ratings — published 2019
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as black)
avg rating 4.37 — 140,004 ratings — published 2018
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as black)
avg rating 4.34 — 236,887 ratings — published 1956
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as black)
avg rating 3.85 — 155,706 ratings — published 2019
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as black)
avg rating 4.36 — 61,868 ratings — published 2020
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as black)
avg rating 4.51 — 18,779 ratings — published 1981
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as black)
avg rating 3.79 — 204,933 ratings — published 2019
“Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.”
― Chanel
― Chanel
“We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings differently. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complained, we just never thought of putting it to music.”
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