To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

1960 ★ 4.1

The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas

2017 ★ 4.4

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

1982 ★ 4.2

Beloved

Toni Morrison

1987 ★ 3.9

The Help

Kathryn Stockett, Alvaro Abella, Álvaro Abella Villar

2009 ★ 4.3

Push

Sapphire, Lofton, Ramona, Sapphire, Tayari Jones

1996 ★ 3.9

The coldest winter ever

Sister Souljah

2000 ★ 4.2

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler

1993 ★ 4.3

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

1970 ★ 4.2

Sula

Toni Morrison

1974 ★ 3.8

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

Along Came a Spider

James Patterson

1993 ★ 4.0

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

1978 ★ 4.2

Passing

Nella Larsen, Matthew Hodgson, Tamar Mishmar

1929 ★ 4.2

The secret life of bees

Sue Monk Kidd, Sue Kidd

2002 ★ 4.0

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

1852 ★ 4.0

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

1972 ★ 4.1

Monster

Walter Dean Myers

1999 ★ 3.7

Monday's Not Coming

Tiffany D. Jackson

2018 ★ 4.5

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred D. Taylor

1976 ★ 4.2

The Crossover

Kwame Alexander

2014 ★ 4.5

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

1954 ★ 3.6

New Kid

Jerry Craft

2019 ★ 3.8

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

1977 ★ 4.3

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

2016 ★ 4.1

The Snowy Day

Shang yi bian ji bu, Ezra Jack Keats, Marilyn Sanabria

1962 ★ 4.3

The Cartel

Ashley & JaQuavis

2009 ★ 5.0

Native Son

Richard Wright, Richard Wright - undifferentiated

1940 ★ 4.0

One crazy summer

Rita Williams-Garcia

2011 ★ 3.9