The Color Purple

Alice Walker

1982 ★ 4.2

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

1969 ★ 4.1

Autobiografía Malcolm X

Malcolm X, Alex Haley

1965 ★ 4.3

The fire next time

James Baldwin

1962 ★ 4.5

Black Boy

Richard Wright

1945 ★ 4.1

Seven Days in June

Tia Williams, Mela Lee

2021

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson

2014 ★ 4.7

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

Valerie Smith, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell et al.

2014 ★ 3.7

The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

Olaudah Equiano

1789 ★ 4.0

Strength to love

Martin Luther King Jr.

1964 ★ 4.3

The Rose That Grew From Concrete

Tupac Shakur

1999 ★ 5.0

In Search of Our Mother's Garden

Alice Walker

1983 ★ 5.0

Citizen

Claudia Rankine, Carme Manuel Cuenca, Allyson Johnson

2015 ★ 4.0

Zami

Audre Lorde

1982 ★ 4.8

Going to Meet the Man

James Baldwin

1965 ★ 4.5

The heart of a woman

Maya Angelou

1981 ★ 5.0

African-American stories

John Patterson

2003 ★ 5.0

Nobody Knows My Name

James Baldwin

1961

Letter to my daughter

Maya Angelou

2008 ★ 4.2

Bone Black

bell hooks

1996

Nova

Samuel R. Delany

1968 ★ 3.3

Poems

Maya Angelou

1997

Poems

Langston Hughes

1974 ★ 4.5

Whispered Promises

Brenda Jackson

2008

We Were Eight Years in Power

Ta-Nehisi Coates

2017 ★ 4.1

Bad Boy

Walter Dean Myers

2001 ★ 4.3

Meridian

Alice Walker

1976

Dust tracks on a road

Jesmyn Ward, Zora Neale Hurston

1969

Ma Rainey's black bottom

August Wilson

1985 ★ 4.0

Dark princess

W. E. B. Du Bois

1974