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African American420
History, Politics & Society420
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History252
Literary & Classics168
Biography & Memoir166
Biography149
Fiction119
Young Adult & Children102

Historical Fiction91

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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley
4.45 average rating, · 166k ratings
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Take My Hand
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
4.35 average rating, · 115.7k ratings
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
4.50 average rating, · 43.6k ratings
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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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Native Son
Richard Wright
4.04 average rating, · 107.1k 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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Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
4.06 average rating, · 86.1k ratings
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Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin
4.11 average rating, · 70.2k ratings
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Ntozake Shange
4.29 average rating, · 34.9k 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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Cane River
Lalita Tademy
4.08 average rating, · 50.8k ratings
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Mustard Seed
Laila Ibrahim
4.29 average rating, · 28k ratings
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Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington
4.11 average rating, · 36.7k ratings
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The Darkest Child
Delores Phillips
4.38 average rating, · 18.3k ratings
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The Collected Poems
Langston Hughes
4.36 average rating, · 18.3k ratings
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Piecing Me Together
Renée Watson
4.07 average rating, · 27.5k ratings
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The Book of Night Women
Marlon James
4.37 average rating, · 15.4k ratings
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Burn Down Master's House
Clay Cane
4.36 average rating, · 15.4k 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 Complete Collected Poems
Maya Angelou
4.43 average rating, · 14.2k 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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Tar Baby
Toni Morrison
4.00 average rating, · 24.5k ratings
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