Books by Black Authors

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Jubilee
Jubilee 4.37 avg rating — 6,827 ratings
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Purple Hibiscus
Purple Hibiscus 4.18 avg rating — 137,132 ratings
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Giovanni’s Room
Giovanni’s Room 4.34 avg rating — 226,132 ratings
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My Country 'Tis of Thee
My Country 'Tis of Thee 3.61 avg rating — 956 ratings
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Liccle Bit
Liccle Bit 3.77 avg rating — 436 ratings
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 4.18 avg rating — 14,106 ratings
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BLACK CHESS: A Novel
BLACK CHESS: A Novel 4.48 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Black Under
Black Under 4.40 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Veterans of the Psychic Wars
Veterans of the Psychic Wars 3.80 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Proposal (The Wedding Date, #2)
The Proposal (The Wedding Date, #2) 3.47 avg rating — 128,375 ratings
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A Song of Wraiths and Ruin (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin, #1)
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 20,487 ratings
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Pride
Pride
by: Ibi Zoboi
3.74 avg rating — 29,334 ratings
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Deacon King Kong
Deacon King Kong 4.17 avg rating — 78,006 ratings
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Echo
Echo 3.59 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Meridian
Meridian 3.75 avg rating — 6,509 ratings
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America 4.26 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
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The Nickel Boys
The Nickel Boys 4.26 avg rating — 291,036 ratings
118.
Dhalgren
Dhalgren 3.78 avg rating — 12,077 ratings
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Cane River
Cane River 4.08 avg rating — 50,067 ratings
120.
Lady Sings the Blues
Lady Sings the Blues 4.05 avg rating — 7,373 ratings
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
Breath, Eyes, Memory 3.90 avg rating — 30,928 ratings
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Small Island
Small Island 4.01 avg rating — 37,171 ratings
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The Known World
The Known World 3.84 avg rating — 44,325 ratings
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Not Without Laughter
Not Without Laughter 4.23 avg rating — 3,669 ratings
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Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection
Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection 4.60 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Last Black Unicorn
The Last Black Unicorn 3.84 avg rating — 68,457 ratings
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Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 60,535 ratings
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The Street
The Street
by: Ann Petry
4.27 avg rating — 12,961 ratings
129.
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems 4.33 avg rating — 1,464 ratings
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The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper
The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper 4.39 avg rating — 1,211 ratings
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Copper Sun
Copper Sun 4.35 avg rating — 16,906 ratings
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She Would Be King
She Would Be King really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,233 ratings
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry 4.08 avg rating — 199,994 ratings
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Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note 4.18 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Black Looks: Race and Representation
Black Looks: Race and Representation 4.36 avg rating — 2,424 ratings
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Queenie
Queenie 3.85 avg rating — 154,553 ratings
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Middle Passage
Middle Passage 3.85 avg rating — 5,410 ratings
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Cane
Cane 3.82 avg rating — 11,323 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 — 4,086 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,018 ratings
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 4.17 avg rating — 118,957 ratings
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Long Walk to Freedom
Long Walk to Freedom 4.36 avg rating — 92,329 ratings
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Brown Girl Dreaming
Brown Girl Dreaming 4.15 avg rating — 91,860 ratings
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These Ghosts Are Family
These Ghosts Are Family 3.66 avg rating — 7,587 ratings
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" 4.05 avg rating — 32,082 ratings
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So You Want to Talk About Race
So You Want to Talk About Race 4.49 avg rating — 107,278 ratings
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Narcolepsy
Narcolepsy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings
147.
Ashes to Ashes: Screenplay
Ashes to Ashes: Screenplay 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Lesson
The Lesson 3.57 avg rating — 3,812 ratings
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Amarna Book I: Book of Ida
Amarna Book I: Book of Ida 3.94 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Ruthless Pamela Jean
Ruthless Pamela Jean 4.53 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Magic Dark, Magic Divine (Warrior of the Divine Sword, #1)
Magic Dark, Magic Divine (Warrior of the Divine Sword, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Small Joys
Small Joys 3.93 avg rating — 2,745 ratings
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In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black, #1)
In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 10,600 ratings
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A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom
A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Cabello: Mineau (Cabello #1)
Cabello: Mineau (Cabello #1) 3.80 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Mine Boy
Mine Boy 3.93 avg rating — 1,086 ratings
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A Valentine Challenge (Challenge, #1)
A Valentine Challenge (Challenge, #1)
by: Kiru Taye
3.80 avg rating — 206 ratings
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The Pack: Addison (The Pack, #1)
The Pack: Addison (The Pack, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 37 ratings
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How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House 3.68 avg rating — 16,158 ratings
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Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism 3.99 avg rating — 1,934 ratings
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Some Soul to Keep
Some Soul to Keep 4.52 avg rating — 1,758 ratings
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The Ballad of Black Tom
The Ballad of Black Tom 3.84 avg rating — 32,627 ratings
163.
Rebellion Book I: Book of Quay
Rebellion Book I: Book of Quay 4.29 avg rating — 35 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 — 37,884 ratings
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Girl, Woman, Other
Girl, Woman, Other 4.27 avg rating — 256,302 ratings
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Miael: Family
Miael: Family 3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy, #1)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 80,320 ratings
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Wild Seed (Patternist, #1)
Wild Seed (Patternist, #1) 4.21 avg rating — 38,336 ratings
168.
Enochi: 3 Of Light
Enochi: 3 Of Light 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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March
March 4.69 avg rating — 1,665 ratings
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Such a Fun Age
Such a Fun Age 3.78 avg rating — 565,675 ratings
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When Copper Suns Fall (Lost Immortals, #1)
When Copper Suns Fall (Lost Immortals, #1) 3.60 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Tyler Johnson Was Here
Tyler Johnson Was Here
by: Jay Coles
3.87 avg rating — 5,539 ratings
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Year of Yes
Year of Yes 4.06 avg rating — 97,929 ratings
175.
Send Her Back and Other Stories
Send Her Back and Other Stories 4.09 avg rating — 395 ratings
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The Blood of Titans
The Blood of Titans 4.04 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More 4.30 avg rating — 16,468 ratings
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The Long Song
The Long Song 3.79 avg rating — 11,129 ratings
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His Treasure (Men of Valor, #1)
His Treasure (Men of Valor, #1)
by: Kiru Taye
3.94 avg rating — 112 ratings
181.
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down 4.01 avg rating — 3,360 ratings
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Een lange brief
Een lange brief 3.99 avg rating — 11,639 ratings
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An American Marriage
An American Marriage 3.93 avg rating — 379,528 ratings
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
A Brief History of Seven Killings 3.89 avg rating — 37,303 ratings
184.
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries 4.10 avg rating — 31,877 ratings
184.
A Song Below Water (A Song Below Water, #1)
A Song Below Water (A Song Below Water, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 11,845 ratings
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The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation
The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation 4.28 avg rating — 359 ratings
188.
Jackie Robinson: A Biography
Jackie Robinson: A Biography 4.17 avg rating — 1,181 ratings
189.
Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,717 ratings
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Half Blood Blues
Half Blood Blues 3.70 avg rating — 17,537 ratings
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing 4.49 avg rating — 2,243 ratings
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The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date, #1)
The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date, #1) 3.57 avg rating — 160,346 ratings
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Bitter Fruit
Bitter Fruit 3.30 avg rating — 1,242 ratings
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Nigger
Nigger 4.40 avg rating — 9,281 ratings
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The Revolution of Birdie Randolph
The Revolution of Birdie Randolph really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,099 ratings
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Jazz
Jazz 3.90 avg rating — 36,227 ratings
197.
Many Colored Coat: C Countee Cullen
Many Colored Coat: C Countee Cullen 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Never Cry Werewolf (Crimson Moon, #5)
Never Cry Werewolf (Crimson Moon, #5) 4.24 avg rating — 859 ratings
199.
Behold the Dreamers
Behold the Dreamers 3.95 avg rating — 84,456 ratings
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Mycroft Holmes (Mycroft Holmes and Sherlock, #1)
Mycroft Holmes (Mycroft Holmes and Sherlock, #1) 3.76 avg rating — 9,669 ratings
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