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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 364,550 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.37 — 289,970 ratings — published 1965
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.60 — 30,986 ratings — published 1987
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,949 ratings — published 1952
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,737 ratings — published 1984
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.47 — 399,658 ratings — published 2016
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.99 — 384,652 ratings — published 1937
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 410,322 ratings — published 2013
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.13 — 298,298 ratings — published 1970
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,069 ratings — published 1981
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.48 — 116,140 ratings — published 2010
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,258 ratings — published 1981
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.98 — 487,757 ratings — published 1987
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 268,816 ratings — published 1979
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 44,766 ratings — published 1903
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.12 — 850,068 ratings — published 2020
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.19 — 258,589 ratings — published 1993
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.28 — 749,047 ratings — published 1982
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,836 ratings — published 2010
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.11 — 249,922 ratings — published 2018
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.55 — 119,786 ratings — published 1963
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,692 ratings — published 2014
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.16 — 171,716 ratings — published 2018
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.30 — 578,351 ratings — published 1969
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,168 ratings — published 2019
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.00 — 148,183 ratings — published 2017
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,004,972 ratings — published 2017
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.06 — 442,605 ratings — published 2016
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,328 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.18 — 141,856 ratings — published 2003
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.52 — 3,296 ratings — published 1935
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 62,837 ratings — published 2020
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.49 — 2,280 ratings — published 2005
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 23,730 ratings — published 1982
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,547 ratings — published 1983
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.74 — 410,585 ratings — published 1958
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.34 — 32,003 ratings — published 1961
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.44 — 10,747 ratings — published 1974
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,517 ratings — published 1990
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,085 ratings — published 1933
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.29 — 34,598 ratings — published 1975
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.60 — 848 ratings — published 1997
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.26 — 263,018 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.77 — 574,084 ratings — published 2019
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,519 ratings — published 2018
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.44 — 45,617 ratings — published 2017
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.93 — 384,492 ratings — published 2018
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,189 ratings — published 2016
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,424 ratings — published 1940
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,424 ratings — published 2019
“Emmanuel started learning the basics of his Blackness before he knew how to do long division: smiling when angry, whispering when he wanted to yell.”
― Friday Black
― Friday Black
“The void has no stake in the world's continuing existence. It's home as well to countless millions of meteorites. Some of them enormous. Trundling across the blackness at forty miles a second. I think if there were anything to care it would have cared by now.”
― Stella Maris
― Stella Maris
