Reading Blackness Recommendations

1.
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 4.14 avg rating — 426,085 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
Buck: A Memoir 4.05 avg rating — 3,060 ratings
3.
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) 4.46 avg rating — 986,476 ratings
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy 4.38 avg rating — 30,601 ratings
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The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 4.08 avg rating — 10,972 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,136 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,056 ratings
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South 4.13 avg rating — 11,515 ratings
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 145,392 ratings
10.
Poor People
Poor People 3.78 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America 4.53 avg rating — 37,887 ratings
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain 4.05 avg rating — 78,220 ratings
13.
Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son 4.37 avg rating — 23,284 ratings
14.
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 4.17 avg rating — 118,962 ratings
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Difficult Women
Difficult Women 3.95 avg rating — 30,039 ratings
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital 3.93 avg rating — 39,334 ratings
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Swing Time
Swing Time 3.56 avg rating — 76,237 ratings
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right 4.12 avg rating — 17,564 ratings
19.
The Wind Done Gone
The Wind Done Gone 3.16 avg rating — 2,212 ratings
20.
Go Down, Moses
Go Down, Moses 3.93 avg rating — 10,440 ratings
21.
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! 3.99 avg rating — 47,019 ratings
22.
Uncle Tom's Children
Uncle Tom's Children 4.13 avg rating — 3,358 ratings
23.
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America 3.76 avg rating — 24,558 ratings
24.
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales 4.15 avg rating — 23,340 ratings
25.
You Shall Know Our Velocity!
You Shall Know Our Velocity! 3.63 avg rating — 29,439 ratings
26.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 3.69 avg rating — 182,719 ratings
27.
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million 4.05 avg rating — 6,956 ratings
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families 4.22 avg rating — 35,956 ratings
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Native Son
Native Son 4.04 avg rating — 103,289 ratings
30.
Black Boy
Black Boy 4.09 avg rating — 55,310 ratings
31.
Another Country
Another Country 4.30 avg rating — 32,351 ratings
32.
If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk 4.27 avg rating — 76,385 ratings
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Sonny's Blues
Sonny's Blues 4.32 avg rating — 9,289 ratings
34.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,825 ratings
35.
Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900 4.36 avg rating — 760 ratings
36.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,860 ratings
37.
Queen Sugar
Queen Sugar 3.79 avg rating — 9,581 ratings
38.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 4.18 avg rating — 209,891 ratings
39.
Everything is Illuminated
Everything is Illuminated 3.89 avg rating — 182,767 ratings
40.
The History of Love
The History of Love 3.92 avg rating — 139,281 ratings
41.
Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go 3.85 avg rating — 813,431 ratings
42.
The Wretched of the Earth
The Wretched of the Earth 4.34 avg rating — 30,610 ratings
43.
Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks 4.26 avg rating — 18,213 ratings
44.
The Colonizer and the Colonized
The Colonizer and the Colonized 4.20 avg rating — 1,921 ratings
45.
Salvage the Bones
Salvage the Bones 3.96 avg rating — 71,454 ratings
46.
Where the Line Bleeds
Where the Line Bleeds 3.78 avg rating — 5,254 ratings
47.
Middlesex
Middlesex 4.04 avg rating — 657,134 ratings
48.
Orlando
Orlando 3.87 avg rating — 109,470 ratings
49.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 3.74 avg rating — 14,419 ratings
50.
The Poetry of Phyllis Wheatley
The Poetry of Phyllis Wheatley 3.68 avg rating — 127 ratings
51.
Daughters of the Dust
Daughters of the Dust 4.30 avg rating — 341 ratings
52.
Wolf Whistle
Wolf Whistle 3.98 avg rating — 1,128 ratings
53.
Philadelphia Fire
Philadelphia Fire 3.44 avg rating — 851 ratings
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Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout 4.32 avg rating — 10,760 ratings
55.
The Women
The Women 3.89 avg rating — 532 ratings
56.
The Angela Y. Davis Reader
The Angela Y. Davis Reader 4.49 avg rating — 253 ratings
57.
Bastard Out of Carolina
Bastard Out of Carolina 4.14 avg rating — 46,995 ratings
58.
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde 4.43 avg rating — 3,763 ratings
59.
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating — 1,904,933 ratings
60.
Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating — 50,756 ratings
61.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,153 ratings
62.
Negroland
Negroland 3.62 avg rating — 7,833 ratings
63.
Queer: A Graphic History
Queer: A Graphic History 3.92 avg rating — 7,149 ratings
64.
The Marrow of Tradition
The Marrow of Tradition 3.92 avg rating — 3,509 ratings
65.
Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line
Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line 3.76 avg rating — 224 ratings
66.
Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only
Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only 4.09 avg rating — 90 ratings
67.
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide 4.47 avg rating — 14,605 ratings
68.
We Are All Moors: Ending Centuries of Crusades against Muslims and Other Minorities
We Are All Moors: Ending Centuries of Crusades against Muslims and Other Minorities 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
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On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life 4.31 avg rating — 583 ratings
70.
The Seine Was Red: Paris, October 1961
The Seine Was Red: Paris, October 1961 3.51 avg rating — 497 ratings
71.
The Homesteader
The Homesteader 4.01 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer
The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer 3.78 avg rating — 60 ratings
73.
The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races
The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races 3.57 avg rating — 23 ratings
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
A Visit from the Goon Squad 3.70 avg rating — 244,183 ratings
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Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,402 ratings
76.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,747 ratings
77.
What Is the What
What Is the What 4.15 avg rating — 86,455 ratings
78.
Zeitoun
Zeitoun 4.05 avg rating — 79,607 ratings
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A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)
A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 1,263,456 ratings
80.
White Teeth
White Teeth 3.79 avg rating — 170,767 ratings
81.
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain 3.84 avg rating — 23,541 ratings
82.
American Gods
American Gods 4.10 avg rating — 978,848 ratings
83.
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017 3.84 avg rating — 347 ratings
84.
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals 4.18 avg rating — 4,570 ratings
85.
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss 3.95 avg rating — 61,691 ratings
86.
Open City
Open City
by: Teju Cole
3.49 avg rating — 17,169 ratings
87.
Troubles (Empire Trilogy, #1)
Troubles (Empire Trilogy, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 5,789 ratings
88.
I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader 4.36 avg rating — 410 ratings
89.
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,150 ratings
90.
Meridian
Meridian 3.75 avg rating — 6,509 ratings
91.
Pulphead
Pulphead really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,975 ratings
92.
The Plague
The Plague 4.02 avg rating — 300,389 ratings
93.
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
I Am Not Sidney Poitier really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,798 ratings
94.
Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners
Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners 4.30 avg rating — 67 ratings
95.
Texaco
Texaco 3.96 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem 4.06 avg rating — 14,200 ratings
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
A Brief History of Seven Killings 3.89 avg rating — 37,308 ratings
98.
Swamplandia!
Swamplandia! 3.28 avg rating — 59,351 ratings
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation 4.14 avg rating — 5,536 ratings
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Oblivion
Oblivion 4.07 avg rating — 15,566 ratings