Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalists/Nominees

1.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun 4.34 avg rating — 176,446 ratings
2.
The Good Lord Bird
The Good Lord Bird 3.95 avg rating — 37,224 ratings
3.
Salvage the Bones
Salvage the Bones 3.96 avg rating — 71,437 ratings
4.
We Need New Names
We Need New Names 3.75 avg rating — 23,066 ratings
5.
Wizard of the Crow
Wizard of the Crow 4.22 avg rating — 3,646 ratings
6.
Silver Sparrow
Silver Sparrow 3.90 avg rating — 45,087 ratings
6.
Someone Knows My Name
Someone Knows My Name 4.47 avg rating — 90,241 ratings
8.
Zone One
Zone One 3.25 avg rating — 26,608 ratings
9.
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
by: ZZ Packer
3.88 avg rating — 7,777 ratings
10.
The Known World
The Known World 3.84 avg rating — 44,318 ratings
11.
The Ecstatic
The Ecstatic 3.45 avg rating — 755 ratings
12.
Infidel
Infidel 4.20 avg rating — 91,943 ratings
13.
Gathering of Waters
Gathering of Waters 4.01 avg rating — 2,797 ratings
14.
How to Read the Air
How to Read the Air 3.27 avg rating — 2,751 ratings
15.
Wench
Wench 3.73 avg rating — 18,203 ratings
16.
Big Machine
Big Machine 3.40 avg rating — 4,477 ratings
17.
Song Yet Sung
Song Yet Sung 4.05 avg rating — 5,999 ratings
18.
The Man in My Basement
The Man in My Basement 3.69 avg rating — 5,643 ratings
19.
The Dew Breaker
The Dew Breaker 3.81 avg rating — 8,256 ratings
20.
Black Water Rising (Jay Porter #1)
Black Water Rising (Jay Porter #1) 3.57 avg rating — 8,427 ratings
21.
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra 4.03 avg rating — 2,726 ratings
22.
The Darkest Child
The Darkest Child 4.38 avg rating — 16,722 ratings
23.
Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius
Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius 3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings
24.
Salvation: Black People and Love
Salvation: Black People and Love 4.34 avg rating — 1,814 ratings
25.
Darktown Follies
Darktown Follies really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings
26.
The Book of Harlan
The Book of Harlan 4.09 avg rating — 2,951 ratings
27.
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir 3.76 avg rating — 2,413 ratings
27.
The Salt Roads
The Salt Roads 3.84 avg rating — 2,491 ratings
29.
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities 3.82 avg rating — 749 ratings
30.
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating — 27,660 ratings
30.
Glorious
Glorious 4.02 avg rating — 1,555 ratings
32.
Sag Harbor
Sag Harbor 3.56 avg rating — 11,310 ratings
33.
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 — 10,969 ratings
34.
Water Street
Water Street 3.99 avg rating — 362 ratings
35.
The Turner House
The Turner House 3.63 avg rating — 17,802 ratings
36.
Another Brooklyn
Another Brooklyn 3.87 avg rating — 41,159 ratings
37.
The Cutting Season
The Cutting Season 3.64 avg rating — 16,906 ratings
37.
Under the Udala Trees
Under the Udala Trees 4.03 avg rating — 14,269 ratings
39.
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie 3.51 avg rating — 40,907 ratings
40.
The Sellout
The Sellout 3.75 avg rating — 73,385 ratings
41.
Life on Mars: Poems
Life on Mars: Poems 4.09 avg rating — 9,908 ratings
42.
The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome
The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome 3.97 avg rating — 269 ratings
43.
Upstate
Upstate 4.08 avg rating — 2,295 ratings
44.
Fearless Jones (Fearless Jones, #1)
Fearless Jones (Fearless Jones, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 3,291 ratings
45.
The Warmest December
The Warmest December 4.18 avg rating — 2,375 ratings
46.
The Residue Years
The Residue Years 3.89 avg rating — 1,361 ratings
47.
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker 3.88 avg rating — 962 ratings
48.
A Cupboard Full of Coats
A Cupboard Full of Coats 3.65 avg rating — 2,566 ratings
49.
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
50.
Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America 3.83 avg rating — 426 ratings
51.
Ida: A Sword Among Lions
Ida: A Sword Among Lions 4.27 avg rating — 947 ratings
52.
Measuring Time
Measuring Time 3.85 avg rating — 641 ratings
53.
The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why 3.94 avg rating — 623 ratings
54.
Unburnable
Unburnable 3.77 avg rating — 554 ratings
55.
Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality
Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality 3.75 avg rating — 102 ratings
56.
Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition
Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
57.
The Madonna of Excelsior
The Madonna of Excelsior
by: Zakes Mda
3.97 avg rating — 915 ratings
58.
American Desert
American Desert 3.79 avg rating — 785 ratings
59.
Links
Links 3.37 avg rating — 582 ratings
60.
A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa 3.92 avg rating — 932 ratings
61.
Mandela, Mobutu, and Me: A Newswoman's African Journey
Mandela, Mobutu, and Me: A Newswoman's African Journey 3.81 avg rating — 54 ratings
62.
A Distant Shore
A Distant Shore 3.62 avg rating — 843 ratings
63.
The Polished Hoe
The Polished Hoe 3.23 avg rating — 1,919 ratings
64.
Getting Mother's Body
Getting Mother's Body 3.71 avg rating — 1,600 ratings
65.
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston 4.36 avg rating — 1,135 ratings
66.
American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End of White America
American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End of White America 3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
67.
Without a Name and Under the Tongue
Without a Name and Under the Tongue 3.81 avg rating — 104 ratings
68.
Fifth Born
Fifth Born 4.25 avg rating — 1,636 ratings
69.
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker 3.98 avg rating — 4,497 ratings
70.
The Gospel According to Cane
The Gospel According to Cane 3.17 avg rating — 123 ratings
71.
The Big Smoke
The Big Smoke 4.04 avg rating — 519 ratings
72.
Every Boy Should Have a Man
Every Boy Should Have a Man 3.45 avg rating — 247 ratings
73.
See Now Then
See Now Then 2.94 avg rating — 1,304 ratings
74.
The Cineaste: Poems
The Cineaste: Poems 3.75 avg rating — 102 ratings
75.
Hemming the Water
Hemming the Water 4.23 avg rating — 118 ratings
76.
What We Ask Of Flesh
What We Ask Of Flesh 4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings
77.
Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora
Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora 3.91 avg rating — 325 ratings
78.
Silverchest: Poems
Silverchest: Poems 4.13 avg rating — 282 ratings
79.
The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights
The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights 3.88 avg rating — 96 ratings
80.
Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home
Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home 3.50 avg rating — 931 ratings
81.
Elsewhere, California
Elsewhere, California 3.90 avg rating — 597 ratings
82.
me and Nina
me and Nina 4.10 avg rating — 72 ratings
83.
But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise
But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise 4.51 avg rating — 41 ratings
84.
Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History & Culture)
Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History & Culture) 4.23 avg rating — 448 ratings
85.
The End of American Lynching
The End of American Lynching 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
86.
Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free
Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free 3.17 avg rating — 142 ratings
87.
Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City
Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City 3.77 avg rating — 120 ratings
88.
You Are Free
You Are Free 3.59 avg rating — 794 ratings
89.
Kingdom Animalia
Kingdom Animalia 4.30 avg rating — 825 ratings
90.
Crossbones
Crossbones 3.43 avg rating — 300 ratings
91.
My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir
My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir 3.67 avg rating — 276 ratings
92.
Lighthead
Lighthead 4.12 avg rating — 2,130 ratings
93.
Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation
Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation 4.29 avg rating — 203 ratings
94.
The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960
The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 4.42 avg rating — 19 ratings
95.
John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism
John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
96.
Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority 4.36 avg rating — 1,433 ratings
97.
Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture
Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture 3.91 avg rating — 1,024 ratings
98.
How to Escape from a Leper Colony
How to Escape from a Leper Colony 3.92 avg rating — 461 ratings
99.
Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems
Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems 4.26 avg rating — 128 ratings
100.
Blonde Roots
Blonde Roots 3.60 avg rating — 8,502 ratings
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