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African American46
Fiction46
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Literary & Classics25
History, Politics & Society22
Formats17
Classics16
Literary Fiction12
Literature11

Historical Fiction8

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The Women of Brewster Place
Gloria Naylor
4.20 average rating, · 22k ratings
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Sonny's Blues
James Baldwin
4.33 average rating, · 9.3k ratings
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Going to Meet the Man
James Baldwin
4.37 average rating, · 8.9k ratings
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Heads of the Colored People
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
4.11 average rating, · 8k ratings
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The Ways of White Folks
Langston Hughes
4.47 average rating, · 5.7k ratings
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
Kiese Laymon
4.31 average rating, · 6.1k ratings
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The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth
Zane
4.30 average rating, · 5.9k ratings
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Mules and Men
Zora Neale Hurston
4.10 average rating, · 6.5k ratings
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Fallen Grace
Sadeqa Johnson
4.21 average rating, · 4.9k ratings
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Five-Carat Soul
James McBride
4.02 average rating, · 5.5k ratings
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Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Danielle Evans
4.06 average rating, · 5.2k ratings
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Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Walter Mosley
4.18 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
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Gettin' Buck Wild: Sex Chronicles II
Zane
4.31 average rating, · 4.2k ratings
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Bailey's Café
Gloria Naylor
4.00 average rating, · 4.7k ratings
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In Search of Satisfaction
J. California Cooper
4.46 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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Electric Arches
Eve L. Ewing
4.27 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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Lost in the City
Edward P. Jones
4.06 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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Uncle Tom's Children
Richard Wright
4.13 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories
Alice Walker
4.01 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories
J. California Cooper
4.51 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive
Zora Neale Hurston
4.42 average rating, · 2.6k ratings
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Six Easy Pieces
Walter Mosley
4.13 average rating, · 2.6k ratings
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Neighbors and Other Stories
Diane Oliver
4.02 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
Alice Walker
4.08 average rating, · 2.6k ratings
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