The Color Purple

Alice Walker

1982 ★ 4.2

Beloved

Toni Morrison

1987 ★ 3.9

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

1969 ★ 4.1

The coldest winter ever

Sister Souljah

2000 ★ 4.2

Dork Diaries

Rachel Renée Russell

2009 ★ 4.3

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

1970 ★ 4.2

Sula

Toni Morrison

1974 ★ 3.8

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2013 ★ 3.8

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

1978 ★ 4.2

We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2014 ★ 4.1

The care & keeping of you

Valorie Lee Schaefer

1998 ★ 4.6

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred D. Taylor

1976 ★ 4.2

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet A. Jacobs

1861 ★ 3.9

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

1977 ★ 4.3

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf

Ntozake Shange

1982 ★ 4.7

One crazy summer

Rita Williams-Garcia

2011 ★ 3.9

Flyy girl

Omar Tyree

1996 ★ 4.3

Jazz

Toni Morrison

1992 ★ 3.4

Warriors don't cry

Melba Beals

1994

Journey to Jo'burg

Beverley Naidoo

1986 ★ 4.9

Meet Addy

Connie Rose Porter

1993 ★ 4.0

Let The Circle be Unbroken

Mildred D. Taylor

1981 ★ 4.5

A small place

Robin Miles, Jamaica Kincaid

1988 ★ 4.0

Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

2011 ★ 3.7

This One Summer

Mariko Tamaki

2014 ★ 4.0

Wild seed

Octavia E. Butler

1980 ★ 4.5

Chains

Laurie Halse Anderson

2008 ★ 4.5

Witness

Karen Hesse

2001 ★ 4.3

Through My Eyes

Ruby Bridges

1999 ★ 4.8

Coming of Age in Mississippi

Anne Moody

1968