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Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.34 — 232,915 ratings — published 1956
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.05 — 79,056 ratings — published 1953
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.55 — 116,444 ratings — published 1963
Another Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.30 — 32,886 ratings — published 1962
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.27 — 77,733 ratings — published 1974
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.37 — 23,512 ratings — published 1955
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,946 ratings — published 1968
Going to Meet the Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.37 — 8,248 ratings — published 1965
Nobody Knows My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,665 ratings — published 1961
Just Above My Head (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,217 ratings — published 1979
No Name in the Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.48 — 4,511 ratings — published 1972
I Am Not Your Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.47 — 7,396 ratings — published 2017
Sonny's Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.32 — 9,381 ratings — published 1957
Blues for Mister Charlie (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,259 ratings — published 1964
The Devil Finds Work: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,641 ratings — published 1976
Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.66 — 2,313 ratings — published 1998
Evidence of Things Not Seen (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,530 ratings — published 1985
One Day When I Was Lost (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.07 — 319 ratings — published 1969
Dark Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,651 ratings — published 2018
James Baldwin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,184 ratings — published 1994
The Amen Corner (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,067 ratings — published 1954
James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,299 ratings — published 2014
Nothing Personal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.66 — 1,961 ratings — published 1964
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.67 — 681 ratings — published 1985
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.50 — 696 ratings — published
Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,289 ratings — published 1989
Early Novels & Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.47 — 831 ratings — published 1998
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,139 ratings — published 2019
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.39 — 6,250 ratings — published 2020
Conversations with James Baldwin (Literary Conversations Series)
by (shelved 4 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.51 — 241 ratings — published 1989
A Dialogue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.37 — 167 ratings — published 1971
Go Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a Writer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.43 — 185 ratings — published
On James Baldwin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.23 — 176 ratings — published 2024
Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 3.53 — 137 ratings — published
Native Sons: A Friendship that Created One of the Greatest Works of the 20th Century: Notes of a Native Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 3.88 — 57 ratings — published
Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.50 — 101 ratings — published 1984
Memorable Quotations: James Baldwin (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.33 — 109 ratings — published 2012
Later Novels: Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone / If Beale Street Could Talk / Just Above My Head (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.45 — 75 ratings — published 2015
Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.21 — 380 ratings — published 1976
A Rap on Race (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.05 — 277 ratings — published 1971
Jimmy's Blues: Selected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as james-baldwin)
avg rating 3.99 — 209 ratings — published 1983
Baldwin: A Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.36 — 66 ratings — published
James Baldwin in Turkey: Bearing Witness from Another Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.54 — 24 ratings — published 2012
James Baldwin: The Life Album (Black Lives)
by (shelved 1 time as james-baldwin)
avg rating 3.78 — 27 ratings — published
James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.03 — 35 ratings — published 2009
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as james-baldwin)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,773,038 ratings — published 1925
No Contest: The Case Against Competition: Why We Lose in Our Race to Win (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.18 — 522 ratings — published 1986
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as james-baldwin)
avg rating 4.30 — 572,022 ratings — published 1969
“Now that his flight was so rigorously approaching its end, a light appeared, a backward light, throwing his terrors into relief.
And what were these terrors? They were buried beneath the impossible language of the time, lived underground where nearly all of the time's true feeling spitefully and incessantly fermented. Precisely, therefore, to the extent that they were inexpressible, were these terrors mighty; precisely because they lived in the dark were their shapes obscene. And because the taste for obscenity is universal and the appetite for reality rare and hard to cultivate, he had nearly perished in the basement of his private life. Or, more precisely, his fantasies.”
― Another Country
And what were these terrors? They were buried beneath the impossible language of the time, lived underground where nearly all of the time's true feeling spitefully and incessantly fermented. Precisely, therefore, to the extent that they were inexpressible, were these terrors mighty; precisely because they lived in the dark were their shapes obscene. And because the taste for obscenity is universal and the appetite for reality rare and hard to cultivate, he had nearly perished in the basement of his private life. Or, more precisely, his fantasies.”
― Another Country
“The morning weighs on my shoulders with the dreadful weight of hope and I take the blue envelope which Jacques has sent me and tear it slowly into many pieces, watching them dance in the wind, watching the wind carry them away. Yet, as I turn and begin walking toward the waiting people, the wind blows some of them back on me.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
