Books by Black Authors

1.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,196 ratings
2.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,949 ratings
3.
Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,320 ratings
4.
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 — 568,944 ratings
5.
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,090 ratings
6.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,787 ratings
7.
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) 4.46 avg rating — 986,372 ratings
8.
Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street
Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street 4.19 avg rating — 381 ratings
9.
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,104 ratings
10.
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 238,935 ratings
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Becoming
Becoming 4.44 avg rating — 1,160,560 ratings
12.
Push
Push
by: Sapphire
3.87 avg rating — 58,129 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 131,993 ratings
14.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,183 ratings
15.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,732 ratings
16.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon 4.15 avg rating — 123,933 ratings
17.
Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,130 ratings
18.
Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,492 ratings
19.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun 4.34 avg rating — 176,457 ratings
20.
Sula
Sula 4.05 avg rating — 117,011 ratings
21.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4) 3.90 avg rating — 128,894 ratings
22.
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Roots: The Saga of an American Family 4.45 avg rating — 163,547 ratings
23.
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,391 ratings
24.
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 — 34,461 ratings
25.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain 4.05 avg rating — 78,206 ratings
26.
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 29,362 ratings
27.
The Book of Negroes
The Book of Negroes 4.47 avg rating — 90,242 ratings
28.
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood 4.49 avg rating — 778,767 ratings
29.
The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,140 ratings
30.
Homegoing
Homegoing
by: Yaa Gyasi
4.47 avg rating — 386,267 ratings
31.
Native Son
Native Son 4.04 avg rating — 103,287 ratings
32.
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance 3.94 avg rating — 229,610 ratings
33.
Buck: A Memoir
Buck: A Memoir 4.05 avg rating — 3,060 ratings
34.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man 3.93 avg rating — 11,073 ratings
35.
Up from Slavery
Up from Slavery 4.11 avg rating — 35,601 ratings
36.
Binti (Binti, #1)
Binti (Binti, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 78,682 ratings
37.
Big Freedia: God Save the Queen Diva!
Big Freedia: God Save the Queen Diva! 4.10 avg rating — 403 ratings
38.
Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)
Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3) 3.86 avg rating — 28,535 ratings
39.
On the Come Up
On the Come Up 4.26 avg rating — 99,747 ratings
40.
A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying 3.98 avg rating — 63,055 ratings
41.
Another Country
Another Country 4.30 avg rating — 32,341 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row 4.65 avg rating — 75,648 ratings
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad 4.06 avg rating — 433,323 ratings
44.
We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,733 ratings
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The Coldest Winter Ever (The Coldest Winter Ever, #1)
The Coldest Winter Ever (The Coldest Winter Ever, #1) 4.46 avg rating — 42,219 ratings
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The Poet X
The Poet X 4.37 avg rating — 138,757 ratings
47.
Sounder
Sounder 3.97 avg rating — 31,163 ratings
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The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth 4.56 avg rating — 435 ratings
49.
Bloodchild and Other Stories
Bloodchild and Other Stories 4.35 avg rating — 26,126 ratings
50.
How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist 4.37 avg rating — 118,331 ratings
51.
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson 4.16 avg rating — 38 ratings
52.
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? 4.34 avg rating — 26,842 ratings
53.
Wench
Wench 3.73 avg rating — 18,203 ratings
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 317,165 ratings
55.
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
56.
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: A Memoir with an Introduction by James Baldwin
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: A Memoir with an Introduction by James Baldwin 4.42 avg rating — 2,810 ratings
57.
A Soldier's Play
A Soldier's Play 3.93 avg rating — 566 ratings
58.
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth 4.10 avg rating — 10,543 ratings
59.
Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, Their Presence, Status and Origins
Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, Their Presence, Status and Origins
by: Onyeka
4.36 avg rating — 107 ratings
60.
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider 4.50 avg rating — 918 ratings
61.
The Learning Tree
The Learning Tree 4.17 avg rating — 1,609 ratings
62.
Project Terror
Project Terror 4.22 avg rating — 36 ratings
62.
The Take
The Take
by: L. Brown
4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
64.
Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present (Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination) (Volume 1)
Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present (Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination) (Volume 1) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
65.
Say You're One of Them
Say You're One of Them 3.55 avg rating — 16,253 ratings
66.
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by: Nic Stone
4.33 avg rating — 84,058 ratings
67.
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 4.16 avg rating — 192,415 ratings
68.
The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating — 44,284 ratings
69.
The Boondocks: Fresh for '01...You Suckas
The Boondocks: Fresh for '01...You Suckas 4.42 avg rating — 712 ratings
70.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 145,370 ratings
71.
Brother, I'm Dying
Brother, I'm Dying 4.16 avg rating — 7,577 ratings
72.
Americanah
Americanah 4.31 avg rating — 401,498 ratings
73.
Slay
Slay 4.19 avg rating — 15,723 ratings
74.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,856 ratings
75.
Salvage the Bones
Salvage the Bones 3.96 avg rating — 71,439 ratings
76.
Fences (The Century Cycle, #6)
Fences (The Century Cycle, #6) 3.88 avg rating — 29,473 ratings
77.
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 — 115,044 ratings
78.
I, Tina
I, Tina 4.13 avg rating — 2,737 ratings
79.
Jinxed
Jinxed it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
79.
N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law 4.33 avg rating — 63 ratings
81.
Fire Baptized (Santeria Habitat, #1)
Fire Baptized (Santeria Habitat, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 1,093 ratings
81.
Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark
Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark 4.02 avg rating — 100 ratings
83.
In Search of Satisfaction
In Search of Satisfaction 4.46 avg rating — 3,371 ratings
84.
JUDGES: When The Light Lay Still
JUDGES: When The Light Lay Still 3.37 avg rating — 60 ratings
85.
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 245,792 ratings
86.
The Mis-Education of the Negro
The Mis-Education of the Negro 4.49 avg rating — 9,978 ratings
87.
See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era
See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
88.
Daisy Jones
Daisy Jones
by: Mack Mama
3.72 avg rating — 64 ratings
89.
Blues for Mister Charlie
Blues for Mister Charlie 4.15 avg rating — 2,243 ratings
90.
Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 80,689 ratings
91.
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3) 4.34 avg rating — 159,400 ratings
92.
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2) 4.29 avg rating — 187,521 ratings
93.
Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son 4.37 avg rating — 23,280 ratings
94.
Slave: My True Story
Slave: My True Story 4.28 avg rating — 10,238 ratings
95.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,286 ratings
96.
Black Betty (Easy Rawlins, #4)
Black Betty (Easy Rawlins, #4) 4.08 avg rating — 5,570 ratings
97.
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating — 27,666 ratings
98.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.31 avg rating — 8,297 ratings
98.
Clotel: or, The President's Daughter
Clotel: or, The President's Daughter 3.63 avg rating — 2,351 ratings
100.
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents 4.53 avg rating — 156,133 ratings
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