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African American203
Biography & Memoir203
Non-Fiction202
Biography186
History, Politics & Society166
History140
Memoir89
Young Adult & Children72
Literary & Classics52

Autobiography30

Art, Design & Culture27

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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
James McBride
4.16 average rating, · 135.8k ratings
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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 Like Me
John Howard Griffin
4.11 average rating, · 70.2k ratings
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Black Boy
Richard Wright
4.09 average rating, · 56.5k ratings
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Jesmyn Ward
4.30 average rating, · 29.7k 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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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Manning Marable
4.19 average rating, · 20.2k ratings
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The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Tupac Shakur
4.41 average rating, · 13.6k ratings
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The Story of Ruby Bridges
Robert Coles
4.44 average rating, · 13k ratings
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Just as I Am
Cicely Tyson
4.50 average rating, · 11.8k ratings
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Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Doreen Rappaport
4.33 average rating, · 12.9k 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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Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
Taylor Branch
4.36 average rating, · 10.1k ratings
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Nigger
Dick Gregory
4.40 average rating, · 9.4k ratings
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The Undefeated
Kwame Alexander
4.61 average rating, · 7.5k ratings
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On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed
4.18 average rating, · 11k 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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The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.08 average rating, · 11.3k ratings
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Manchild in the Promised Land
Claude Brown
4.28 average rating, · 9.2k ratings
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
4.09 average rating, · 10.8k 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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