Contemporary Black Women's Literature

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The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,094 ratings
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Color Me Butterfly: A True Story of Courage, Hope and Transformation
Color Me Butterfly: A True Story of Courage, Hope and Transformation 4.04 avg rating — 856 ratings
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The Cutting Season
The Cutting Season 3.64 avg rating — 16,907 ratings
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Such a Fun Age
Such a Fun Age 3.78 avg rating — 565,650 ratings
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The Dew Breaker
The Dew Breaker 3.81 avg rating — 8,256 ratings
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Ayiti
Ayiti 4.27 avg rating — 8,126 ratings
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If Sons, Then Heirs
If Sons, Then Heirs 3.54 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Let's Play White
Let's Play White 3.99 avg rating — 286 ratings
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On the Come Up
On the Come Up 4.26 avg rating — 99,744 ratings
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Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine 4.23 avg rating — 7,503 ratings
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The Healing
The Healing 3.70 avg rating — 364 ratings
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A Cupboard Full of Coats
A Cupboard Full of Coats 3.65 avg rating — 2,566 ratings
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Your Light Is The Key
Your Light Is The Key it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Dessa Rose
Dessa Rose 3.80 avg rating — 990 ratings
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Guidebook To Your Heart
Guidebook To Your Heart it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Nathaniel Myer
Nathaniel Myer 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Other Black Girl
The Other Black Girl 3.35 avg rating — 82,112 ratings
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Conjure Women
Conjure Women 3.87 avg rating — 18,420 ratings
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 145,369 ratings
120.
God Help the Child
God Help the Child 3.78 avg rating — 31,718 ratings
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Gingerbread
Gingerbread 3.05 avg rating — 15,465 ratings
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The Kid
The Kid
by: Sapphire
2.70 avg rating — 2,732 ratings
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So We Can Glow: Stories
So We Can Glow: Stories 3.90 avg rating — 1,316 ratings
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The River Where Blood Is Born
The River Where Blood Is Born 4.27 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Third Girl from the Left
Third Girl from the Left 3.95 avg rating — 751 ratings
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Fifth Born
Fifth Born 4.25 avg rating — 1,636 ratings
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Orleans
Orleans 3.72 avg rating — 4,334 ratings
126.
All My Friends
All My Friends 3.63 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance 3.97 avg rating — 4,904 ratings
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Unburnable
Unburnable 3.77 avg rating — 554 ratings
130.
Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures 3.96 avg rating — 112,013 ratings
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The Roving Tree
The Roving Tree 3.62 avg rating — 124 ratings
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The Turner House
The Turner House 3.63 avg rating — 17,802 ratings
132.
She Would Be King
She Would Be King really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,233 ratings
135.
Elsewhere, California
Elsewhere, California 3.90 avg rating — 597 ratings
135.
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 317,153 ratings
137.
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem 4.06 avg rating — 14,197 ratings
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Blood Colony (African Immortals, #3)
Blood Colony (African Immortals, #3) 4.13 avg rating — 1,846 ratings
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Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays 3.83 avg rating — 6,109 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 — 115,043 ratings
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Blues Dancing
Blues Dancing 4.25 avg rating — 862 ratings
141.
The Gilda Stories
The Gilda Stories 3.95 avg rating — 4,243 ratings
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So You Want to Talk About Race
So You Want to Talk About Race 4.49 avg rating — 107,275 ratings
144.
The Warmest December
The Warmest December 4.18 avg rating — 2,375 ratings
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Red at the Bone
Red at the Bone 3.96 avg rating — 82,541 ratings
146.
The Fall of Rome
The Fall of Rome 3.83 avg rating — 633 ratings
147.
In the Not Quite Dark: Stories
In the Not Quite Dark: Stories 4.12 avg rating — 192 ratings
148.
Solemn
Solemn 3.12 avg rating — 91 ratings
148.
Haiti Noir (Akashic Noir)
Haiti Noir (Akashic Noir) 3.79 avg rating — 542 ratings
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Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation
Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation 3.66 avg rating — 6,280 ratings
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Linden Hills
Linden Hills 4.04 avg rating — 3,201 ratings
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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories 4.01 avg rating — 3,360 ratings
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The Joys of Motherhood
The Joys of Motherhood 4.21 avg rating — 8,107 ratings
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How to Escape from a Leper Colony
How to Escape from a Leper Colony 3.92 avg rating — 461 ratings
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White Is for Witching
White Is for Witching 3.54 avg rating — 12,889 ratings
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The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls 3.63 avg rating — 21,132 ratings
155.
Autobiography of a Family Photo
Autobiography of a Family Photo 3.76 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Sula
Sula 4.05 avg rating — 117,009 ratings
159.
The Book of Harlan
The Book of Harlan 4.09 avg rating — 2,951 ratings
160.
Fledgling
Fledgling 3.80 avg rating — 37,688 ratings
161.
Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,715 ratings
162.
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side 4.38 avg rating — 3,350 ratings
162.
The Icarus Girl
The Icarus Girl 3.64 avg rating — 5,433 ratings
164.
Get Down
Get Down 3.80 avg rating — 127 ratings
164.
Bain de lune
Bain de lune 3.40 avg rating — 289 ratings
164.
New Daughters of Africa
New Daughters of Africa 4.26 avg rating — 210 ratings
164.
Beneath a Meth Moon
Beneath a Meth Moon 3.70 avg rating — 4,618 ratings
164.
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? 3.84 avg rating — 4,387 ratings
169.
26a
26a 3.67 avg rating — 1,752 ratings
170.
Lady Sings the Blues
Lady Sings the Blues 4.05 avg rating — 7,373 ratings
171.
October Suite
October Suite 3.69 avg rating — 291 ratings
172.
A Quiet Storm
A Quiet Storm 3.71 avg rating — 648 ratings
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The Autograph Man
The Autograph Man 3.16 avg rating — 13,156 ratings
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Rattlebone
Rattlebone 3.91 avg rating — 632 ratings
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating — 50,753 ratings
176.
Boy, Snow, Bird
Boy, Snow, Bird 3.34 avg rating — 30,810 ratings
177.
Property
Property 3.70 avg rating — 5,850 ratings
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Mr. Fox
Mr. Fox 3.57 avg rating — 11,452 ratings
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The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations 4.30 avg rating — 4,085 ratings
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Pride
Pride 3.38 avg rating — 74 ratings
181.
The Untelling
The Untelling 3.73 avg rating — 4,641 ratings
182.
Swing Time
Swing Time 3.56 avg rating — 76,237 ratings
183.
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
How Long 'til Black Future Month? 4.27 avg rating — 17,830 ratings
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Where the Line Bleeds
Where the Line Bleeds 3.78 avg rating — 5,253 ratings
185.
The Chronicles of a Crazy Chick
The Chronicles of a Crazy Chick 3.28 avg rating — 29 ratings
185.
Raised by Hand, Lifted by the Tides: A Southern Child's Memoir
Raised by Hand, Lifted by the Tides: A Southern Child's Memoir 3.83 avg rating — 42 ratings
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See Now Then
See Now Then 2.94 avg rating — 1,304 ratings
185.
Dear Junia
Dear Junia 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
185.
Into the Go-Slow
Into the Go-Slow 3.74 avg rating — 225 ratings
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His PhD is in Hypocrisy: And Other Poems about My Crappy Ex-Boyfriend
His PhD is in Hypocrisy: And Other Poems about My Crappy Ex-Boyfriend 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Up and Down The Evergreen
Up and Down The Evergreen it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
185.
The Search for Susu
The Search for Susu 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings
185.
Blood Contract
Blood Contract 4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings
185.
The Last Firefly
The Last Firefly 4.64 avg rating — 39 ratings
185.
No One Is Coming to Save Us
No One Is Coming to Save Us 3.02 avg rating — 6,406 ratings
185.
The Girl With 1000 Lovers
The Girl With 1000 Lovers really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
185.
An Angel in Flames (Mount Kenya #1)
An Angel in Flames (Mount Kenya #1)
by: N.K. Read
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
185.
Pindorama
Pindorama it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
185.
Fragments
Fragments 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings
185.
Her Right To Flight
Her Right To Flight 4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings
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