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The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
4.55 average rating, · 127.7k ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley
4.45 average rating, · 166k ratings
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The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
4.14 average rating, · 315.2k ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde
4.53 average rating, · 42.2k ratings
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The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.49 average rating, · 45k ratings
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall
4.35 average rating, · 65.5k ratings
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If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin
4.26 average rating, · 87.3k ratings
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Y. Davis
4.44 average rating, · 37.2k ratings
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
4.25 average rating, · 52.8k ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois
4.31 average rating, · 45.7k ratings
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Native Son
Richard Wright
4.04 average rating, · 107.1k 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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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.38 average rating, · 31.2k ratings
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Another Country
James Baldwin
4.30 average rating, · 36.4k ratings
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Recitatif
Toni Morrison
4.29 average rating, · 34.2k ratings
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Cathy Park Hong
4.18 average rating, · 44.7k 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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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays
Hanif Abdurraqib
4.54 average rating, · 19.7k ratings
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Black Boy
Richard Wright
4.09 average rating, · 56.5k ratings
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Audre Lorde
4.40 average rating, · 24.6k ratings
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Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin
4.36 average rating, · 25.5k ratings
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Call Us What We Carry
Amanda Gorman
4.25 average rating, · 27k ratings
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Thick: And Other Essays
Tressie McMillan Cottom
4.43 average rating, · 19k ratings
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