Contemporary Black Women's Literature

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The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating β€” 737,207 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating β€” 476,960 ratings
3.
Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating β€” 258,331 ratings
4.
Americanah
Americanah 4.31 avg rating β€” 401,510 ratings
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The Darkest Child
The Darkest Child 4.38 avg rating β€” 16,723 ratings
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun 4.34 avg rating β€” 176,462 ratings
7.
Sugar (Sugar Lacey, #1)
Sugar (Sugar Lacey, #1) 4.28 avg rating β€” 10,035 ratings
8.
White Teeth
White Teeth 3.79 avg rating β€” 170,751 ratings
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
Breath, Eyes, Memory 3.90 avg rating β€” 30,928 ratings
10.
Cane River
Cane River 4.08 avg rating β€” 50,067 ratings
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Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)
Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3) 3.86 avg rating β€” 28,535 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating β€” 568,951 ratings
13.
Purple Hibiscus
Purple Hibiscus 4.18 avg rating β€” 137,123 ratings
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Possessing the Secret of Joy
Possessing the Secret of Joy 4.09 avg rating β€” 15,682 ratings
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Silver Sparrow
Silver Sparrow 3.90 avg rating β€” 45,092 ratings
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Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2) 3.90 avg rating β€” 36,226 ratings
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Caucasia
Caucasia 4.08 avg rating β€” 10,080 ratings
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On Beauty
On Beauty 3.78 avg rating β€” 89,026 ratings
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Love
Love 3.82 avg rating β€” 13,485 ratings
20.
Homegoing
Homegoing
by: Yaa Gyasi
4.47 avg rating β€” 386,280 ratings
21.
Glorious
Glorious 4.02 avg rating β€” 1,555 ratings
22.
The Thing Around Your Neck
The Thing Around Your Neck 4.23 avg rating β€” 48,401 ratings
23.
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) 4.46 avg rating β€” 986,383 ratings
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf 4.29 avg rating β€” 34,461 ratings
25.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon 4.15 avg rating β€” 123,937 ratings
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Nervous Conditions
Nervous Conditions 4.04 avg rating β€” 22,079 ratings
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Gathering of Waters
Gathering of Waters 4.01 avg rating β€” 2,797 ratings
28.
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie 3.51 avg rating β€” 40,909 ratings
29.
Waiting to Exhale (Waiting to Exhale, #1)
Waiting to Exhale (Waiting to Exhale, #1) 3.99 avg rating β€” 17,749 ratings
30.
The Complete Collected Poems
The Complete Collected Poems 4.44 avg rating β€” 13,863 ratings
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A Mercy
A Mercy 3.76 avg rating β€” 31,912 ratings
32.
Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)
Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1) 4.21 avg rating β€” 38,337 ratings
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The Temple of My Familiar
The Temple of My Familiar 4.05 avg rating β€” 14,860 ratings
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Home
Home 3.83 avg rating β€” 27,293 ratings
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Coffee Will Make You Black
Coffee Will Make You Black 4.08 avg rating β€” 5,553 ratings
36.
The Salt Eaters
The Salt Eaters 3.84 avg rating β€” 1,573 ratings
37.
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) 4.20 avg rating β€” 238,953 ratings
38.
My Soul to Keep (African Immortals, #1)
My Soul to Keep (African Immortals, #1) 4.15 avg rating β€” 7,406 ratings
39.
Wench
Wench 3.73 avg rating β€” 18,203 ratings
40.
Push
Push
by: Sapphire
3.87 avg rating β€” 58,130 ratings
41.
This Bitter Earth (Sugar Lacey, #2)
This Bitter Earth (Sugar Lacey, #2) 4.33 avg rating β€” 3,404 ratings
42.
Another Brooklyn
Another Brooklyn 3.87 avg rating β€” 41,163 ratings
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Salvage the Bones
Salvage the Bones 3.96 avg rating β€” 71,441 ratings
44.
Tar Baby
Tar Baby 3.99 avg rating β€” 23,196 ratings
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NW
NW 3.48 avg rating β€” 44,462 ratings
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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
by: ZZ Packer
3.88 avg rating β€” 7,777 ratings
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Brother, I'm Dying
Brother, I'm Dying 4.16 avg rating β€” 7,577 ratings
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Krik? Krak!
Krik? Krak! 4.16 avg rating β€” 9,528 ratings
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HUSH MONEY: How One Woman Proved Systemic Racism in her Workplace and Kept her Job
HUSH MONEY: How One Woman Proved Systemic Racism in her Workplace and Kept her Job 4.45 avg rating β€” 255 ratings
50.
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women 4.08 avg rating β€” 2,489 ratings
51.
Family
Family 4.43 avg rating β€” 2,717 ratings
52.
Tempest Rising
Tempest Rising 4.22 avg rating β€” 1,078 ratings
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours 3.64 avg rating β€” 14,301 ratings
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Mama Day
Mama Day 4.19 avg rating β€” 11,153 ratings
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The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives 4.08 avg rating β€” 15,436 ratings
56.
Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1) 4.17 avg rating β€” 80,690 ratings
57.
So Long a Letter
So Long a Letter 3.99 avg rating β€” 11,639 ratings
58.
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo 4.10 avg rating β€” 3,963 ratings
58.
Ghana Must Go
Ghana Must Go 3.85 avg rating β€” 12,203 ratings
60.
The Autobiography of My Mother
The Autobiography of My Mother 3.78 avg rating β€” 6,046 ratings
61.
Queenie
Queenie 3.85 avg rating β€” 154,552 ratings
62.
Some Sing, Some Cry
Some Sing, Some Cry 3.84 avg rating β€” 1,121 ratings
63.
Red River
Red River 3.89 avg rating β€” 3,438 ratings
63.
The Taste of Salt
The Taste of Salt 3.45 avg rating β€” 2,009 ratings
65.
Brown Girl in the Ring
Brown Girl in the Ring 3.85 avg rating β€” 7,278 ratings
66.
An Untamed State
An Untamed State 4.07 avg rating β€” 19,599 ratings
67.
Black Water Rising (Jay Porter #1)
Black Water Rising (Jay Porter #1) 3.57 avg rating β€” 8,427 ratings
67.
We Need New Names
We Need New Names 3.75 avg rating β€” 23,067 ratings
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What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (Idlewild, #1)
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (Idlewild, #1) 3.75 avg rating β€” 21,453 ratings
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The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place 4.20 avg rating β€” 21,533 ratings
71.
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 4.40 avg rating β€” 23,084 ratings
72.
The Third Life Of Grange Copeland
The Third Life Of Grange Copeland 4.14 avg rating β€” 4,584 ratings
73.
The Coldest Winter Ever
The Coldest Winter Ever 4.46 avg rating β€” 42,219 ratings
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By the Light of My Father's Smile
By the Light of My Father's Smile 3.89 avg rating β€” 3,351 ratings
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
My Sister, the Serial Killer 3.65 avg rating β€” 332,406 ratings
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Annie John
Annie John 3.72 avg rating β€” 12,516 ratings
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 4.17 avg rating β€” 118,957 ratings
78.
The Farming of Bones
The Farming of Bones 4.07 avg rating β€” 9,774 ratings
78.
The Mothers
The Mothers 3.88 avg rating β€” 126,678 ratings
80.
Desert Flower
Desert Flower 4.24 avg rating β€” 39,498 ratings
81.
The Matter Is Life
The Matter Is Life 4.53 avg rating β€” 1,178 ratings
82.
The Good House
The Good House 4.01 avg rating β€” 9,529 ratings
83.
Nowhere Is a Place
Nowhere Is a Place 4.14 avg rating β€” 2,111 ratings
84.
Getting Mother's Body
Getting Mother's Body 3.71 avg rating β€” 1,600 ratings
84.
Those Bones Are Not My Child
Those Bones Are Not My Child 3.52 avg rating β€” 541 ratings
84.
Heads of the Colored People
Heads of the Colored People 4.11 avg rating β€” 7,907 ratings
87.
A Girl Is a Body of Water
A Girl Is a Body of Water 4.15 avg rating β€” 8,335 ratings
88.
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self 4.06 avg rating β€” 5,036 ratings
88.
On Black Sisters Street
On Black Sisters Street 3.88 avg rating β€” 2,699 ratings
90.
Stay with Me
Stay with Me 4.06 avg rating β€” 63,585 ratings
91.
The Sun Is Also a Star
The Sun Is Also a Star 3.95 avg rating β€” 353,162 ratings
92.
Lucy
Lucy 3.83 avg rating β€” 13,951 ratings
93.
Life Is Short But Wide
Life Is Short But Wide 3.98 avg rating β€” 2,010 ratings
93.
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies 4.15 avg rating β€” 40,554 ratings
95.
At-Risk
At-Risk 3.99 avg rating β€” 152 ratings
96.
Claire of the Sea Light
Claire of the Sea Light 3.67 avg rating β€” 11,189 ratings
97.
Nine Bar Blues
Nine Bar Blues 4.05 avg rating β€” 230 ratings
98.
We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating β€” 320,741 ratings
99.
The Dragonfly Sea
The Dragonfly Sea 3.88 avg rating β€” 792 ratings
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An American Marriage
An American Marriage 3.93 avg rating β€” 379,521 ratings
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