Hidden Gems: Virtually Unknown African-American Historical Fiction & Classics

1.
Tempest Rising
Tempest Rising 4.22 avg rating — 1,078 ratings
2.
Daughter
Daughter 4.06 avg rating — 458 ratings
3.
The Sacred Place
The Sacred Place 4.23 avg rating — 488 ratings
4.
Like Trees, Walking
Like Trees, Walking 4.01 avg rating — 444 ratings
5.
A Taste of Honey: Stories
A Taste of Honey: Stories 4.04 avg rating — 448 ratings
6.
Black Orchid Blues (Lanie Price #2)
Black Orchid Blues (Lanie Price #2) 3.86 avg rating — 323 ratings
7.
The Full Matilda: A Novel
The Full Matilda: A Novel 3.98 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Billy: A Novel
Billy: A Novel 4.21 avg rating — 659 ratings
9.
A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying 3.98 avg rating — 63,056 ratings
10.
Sapphire's Grave
Sapphire's Grave 3.78 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Betsey Brown
Betsey Brown 3.84 avg rating — 721 ratings
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Jump at the Sun
Jump at the Sun 3.70 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Chasing Sophea
Chasing Sophea 3.58 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Conjure-Man Dies
The Conjure-Man Dies 3.83 avg rating — 1,208 ratings
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This Child's Gonna Live
This Child's Gonna Live 4.02 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Daddy Was a Number Runner
Daddy Was a Number Runner 4.19 avg rating — 1,365 ratings
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Unburnable
Unburnable 3.77 avg rating — 554 ratings
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The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place 4.20 avg rating — 21,533 ratings
19.
Dark Genesis (The Darkling Trilogy, #1)
Dark Genesis (The Darkling Trilogy, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 853 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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Douglass' Women
Douglass' Women 4.08 avg rating — 644 ratings
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The Sport of the Gods
The Sport of the Gods 3.74 avg rating — 771 ratings
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Feeding the Ghosts
Feeding the Ghosts 3.79 avg rating — 466 ratings
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Trumbull Park
Trumbull Park 4.41 avg rating — 49 ratings
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If Sons, Then Heirs
If Sons, Then Heirs 3.54 avg rating — 372 ratings
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The Fall of Rome
The Fall of Rome 3.83 avg rating — 633 ratings
27.
Third Girl from the Left
Third Girl from the Left 3.95 avg rating — 751 ratings
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The Coming
The Coming 4.41 avg rating — 1,002 ratings
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Cion (Toloki #2)
Cion (Toloki #2)
by: Zakes Mda
3.62 avg rating — 212 ratings
29.
The Chaneysville Incident
The Chaneysville Incident really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,235 ratings
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The Solace of Water
The Solace of Water 4.18 avg rating — 1,459 ratings
29.
The Street
The Street
by: Ann Petry
4.27 avg rating — 12,961 ratings
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Scandalous
Scandalous 3.98 avg rating — 57 ratings
34.
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices 4.06 avg rating — 552 ratings
35.
Walk Through Darkness
Walk Through Darkness 3.83 avg rating — 160 ratings
35.
Land of Love and Drowning
Land of Love and Drowning 3.37 avg rating — 5,306 ratings
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
Breath, Eyes, Memory 3.90 avg rating — 30,928 ratings
38.
Here Comes the Sun
Here Comes the Sun 3.85 avg rating — 11,629 ratings
39.
Augustown
Augustown 4.30 avg rating — 3,841 ratings
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Gabriel's Story
Gabriel's Story 3.88 avg rating — 266 ratings
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One Night in Mississippi
One Night in Mississippi 4.02 avg rating — 129 ratings
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North of Dawn
North of Dawn 3.39 avg rating — 921 ratings
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Measuring Time
Measuring Time 3.85 avg rating — 641 ratings
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Rooftop Diva: A Novel of Triumph after Katrina
Rooftop Diva: A Novel of Triumph after Katrina liked it 3.00 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Some Sing, Some Cry
Some Sing, Some Cry 3.84 avg rating — 1,121 ratings
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Intercepted (Playbook, #1)
Intercepted (Playbook, #1) 3.71 avg rating — 15,438 ratings
47.
The Price of a Child
The Price of a Child 3.66 avg rating — 530 ratings
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Between Goodbyes
Between Goodbyes 3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings
49.
Lowcountry Spirit
Lowcountry Spirit
by: Ann Hite
3.83 avg rating — 314 ratings
50.
Bind Me With Ties No More
Bind Me With Ties No More 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
51.
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark 4.16 avg rating — 419 ratings
52.
Isle of Canes
Isle of Canes 4.08 avg rating — 173 ratings
52.
Jam on the Vine
Jam on the Vine 3.91 avg rating — 915 ratings
52.
Sweat
Sweat 4.04 avg rating — 4,456 ratings
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Burning Uncle Tom's Cabin
Burning Uncle Tom's Cabin 4.08 avg rating — 353 ratings
55.
My Jim
My Jim 3.73 avg rating — 559 ratings
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The Good Negress
The Good Negress 3.67 avg rating — 438 ratings
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Standing at the Scratch Line
Standing at the Scratch Line 4.50 avg rating — 915 ratings
59.
The Big Blow
The Big Blow 3.98 avg rating — 615 ratings
60.
Saint Monkey
Saint Monkey 3.65 avg rating — 494 ratings
61.
Of Love and Dust
Of Love and Dust 4.13 avg rating — 779 ratings
62.
Joplin's Ghost
Joplin's Ghost 3.94 avg rating — 1,042 ratings
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Citizens Creek
Citizens Creek 3.91 avg rating — 1,349 ratings
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The Longest Memory
The Longest Memory 3.76 avg rating — 1,891 ratings
65.
The Treason of Mary Louvestre
The Treason of Mary Louvestre
by: My Haley
3.90 avg rating — 121 ratings
66.
The House Behind the Cedars
The House Behind the Cedars 3.79 avg rating — 1,412 ratings
67.
The Truth About Awiti
The Truth About Awiti 4.34 avg rating — 396 ratings
68.
Two Thousand Seasons
Two Thousand Seasons 4.43 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Amistad
Amistad 3.85 avg rating — 357 ratings