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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Ann Jacobs
4.18 average rating, · 59.2k ratings
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Black Boy
Richard Wright
4.09 average rating, · 56.5k ratings
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Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington
4.11 average rating, · 36.7k ratings
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The Heart of a Woman
Maya Angelou
4.23 average rating, · 25.3k ratings
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Gather Together in My Name
Maya Angelou
4.32 average rating, · 19k ratings
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Just as I Am
Cicely Tyson
4.50 average rating, · 11.8k ratings
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Sarah L. Delany
4.18 average rating, · 14.3k ratings
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Nigger
Dick Gregory
4.40 average rating, · 9.4k ratings
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
Anne Moody
4.13 average rating, · 11.8k ratings
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Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
Maya Angelou
4.25 average rating, · 9.9k ratings
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Manchild in the Promised Land
Claude Brown
4.28 average rating, · 9.2k ratings
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The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir
Jenifer Lewis
4.36 average rating, · 7.9k ratings
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All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Maya Angelou
4.29 average rating, · 8.3k ratings
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Dust Tracks on a Road
Zora Neale Hurston
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Around the Way Girl
Taraji P. Henson
4.20 average rating, · 6.9k ratings
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Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
Nathan McCall
4.16 average rating, · 5.8k ratings
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Finding Fish
Antwone Quenton Fisher
4.15 average rating, · 5.3k ratings
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Maya Angelou
4.26 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
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To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography
Lorraine Hansberry
4.42 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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I, Tina
Tina Turner
4.14 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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Walking in My Joy: In These Streets
Jenifer Lewis
4.23 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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The Big Sea
Langston Hughes
4.23 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Coretta Scott King
4.24 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
Walter Dean Myers
4.14 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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