The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas

2017 ★ 4.4

The Help

Kathryn Stockett, Alvaro Abella, Álvaro Abella Villar

2009 ★ 4.3

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler

1993 ★ 4.3

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

1970 ★ 4.2

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2013 ★ 3.8

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

1956 ★ 4.2

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler, SparkNotes

1988 ★ 4.4

Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis, Alberto Jimenez Rioja, Reginald André Jackson et al.

1999 ★ 4.5

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

1978 ★ 4.2

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

1972 ★ 4.1

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

2015 ★ 4.2

Roots

Alex Haley

1976 ★ 4.5

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

2016 ★ 3.9

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

2016 ★ 4.1

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

1903 ★ 4.1

Black Boy

Richard Wright

1945 ★ 4.1

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

2020 ★ 4.0

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

2016 ★ 4.0

Native Son

Richard Wright, Richard Wright - undifferentiated

1940 ★ 4.0

The Warmth of Other Suns

Isabel Wilkerson

2010 ★ 4.2

On The Come Up

Angie Thomas

2019 ★ 4.5

Amari and the Night Brothers

B. B. Alston

2021 ★ 4.6

Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

2011 ★ 3.7

The Sellout

Paul Beatty

2015 ★ 3.8

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward

2017 ★ 3.7

A Gathering of Old Men

Ernest J. Gaines

1983 ★ 4.3

G-Spot

Noire.

2005 ★ 4.0

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Marlon James

2019 ★ 4.0

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks

1992

The Gilda Stories

Jewelle Gomez

1991 ★ 4.3