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Harlem Shuffle (The Harlem Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.73 — 87,139 ratings — published 2021
Crook Manifesto (The Harlem Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.88 — 23,672 ratings — published 2023
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.98 — 60,059 ratings — published 2024
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.91 — 87,509 ratings — published 1929
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.91 — 41,585 ratings — published 1992
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,650 ratings — published 1952
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.00 — 403,009 ratings — published 1937
Harlem Rhapsody (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,377 ratings — published 2025
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.46 — 432,924 ratings — published 2016
The Blacker the Berry... (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,247 ratings — published 1927
Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.63 — 38,965 ratings — published 1954
A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,189 ratings — published 1957
Some Places More Than Others (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,402 ratings — published 2019
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street (The Vanderbeekers, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.11 — 29,669 ratings — published 2017
The Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.28 — 14,486 ratings — published 1946
Home to Harlem (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,822 ratings — published 1928
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,799 ratings — published 1963
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.36 — 146,756 ratings — published 2018
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.48 — 123,199 ratings — published 2010
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,100 ratings — published 2015
No Crystal Stair (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,576 ratings — published 2011
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.06 — 88,952 ratings — published 1953
Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,887 ratings — published 2026
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,225 ratings — published 2020
Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.26 — 559 ratings — published 2020
Quicksand (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,414 ratings — published 1928
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,062 ratings — published 2022
Dead Dead Girls (Harlem Renaissance Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.22 — 6,482 ratings — published 2021
The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,755 ratings — published 1958
The Stars Beneath Our Feet (Library Binding)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,407 ratings — published 2017
The Ballad of Black Tom (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.81 — 38,091 ratings — published 2016
The Collected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.36 — 18,525 ratings — published 1994
Harlem Beat 1-29 (Harlem Beat, Volume 1-29)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.49 — 952 ratings — published 2003
The Ways of White Folks (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.47 — 5,774 ratings — published 1934
The Big Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,099 ratings — published 1940
Darius & Twig (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,128 ratings — published 2013
Quicksand and Passing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,644 ratings — published 1928
A Harlem Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.11 — 885 ratings — published
With Love from Harlem (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,080 ratings — published 2026
The Weary Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,457 ratings — published 1925
H Is for Harlem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.43 — 187 ratings — published 2022
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.81 — 33,955 ratings — published 2021
Infants of the Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harlem)
avg rating 3.81 — 515 ratings — published 1932
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.26 — 90,853 ratings — published 1974
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.36 — 26,051 ratings — published 1955
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harlem)
avg rating 4.37 — 301,740 ratings — published 1965
“Well, I was looking for Justice," said Simple. "I was tired."
"Tired of what?"
"Of hearing the radio talking about the Four Freedoms all day long during the war and me living in Harlem where nary one of them freedoms worked--nor the ceiling prices either.”
― The Return of Simple
"Tired of what?"
"Of hearing the radio talking about the Four Freedoms all day long during the war and me living in Harlem where nary one of them freedoms worked--nor the ceiling prices either.”
― The Return of Simple
“She got off the train, thinking that she never felt really human until she reached Harlem and thus got away from the hostility in the eyes of the white women who stared at her on the downtown streets and in the subway. Escaped from the openly appraising looks of the white men whose eyes seemed to go through her clothing to her long brown legs. On the trains their eyes came at her furtively from behind newspapers, or half-concealed under hatbrims or partly shielded by their hands. And there was a warm, moist look about their eyes that made her want to run.
These other folks feel the same way, she thought—that once they are freed from the contempt in the eyes of the downtown world, they instantly become individuals. Up here they are no longer creatures labeled simply 'colored' and therefore all alike. She noticed that once the crowd walked the length of the platform and started up the stairs toward the street, it expanded in size. The same people who had made themselves small on the train, even on the platform, suddenly grew so large they could hardly get up the stairs to the street together. She reached the street at the very end of the crowd and stood watching them as they scattered in all directions, laughing and talking to each other.”
― The Street
These other folks feel the same way, she thought—that once they are freed from the contempt in the eyes of the downtown world, they instantly become individuals. Up here they are no longer creatures labeled simply 'colored' and therefore all alike. She noticed that once the crowd walked the length of the platform and started up the stairs toward the street, it expanded in size. The same people who had made themselves small on the train, even on the platform, suddenly grew so large they could hardly get up the stairs to the street together. She reached the street at the very end of the crowd and stood watching them as they scattered in all directions, laughing and talking to each other.”
― The Street
