The Color Purple

Alice Walker

1982 ★ 4.2

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2013 ★ 3.8

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

1956 ★ 4.2

Passing

Nella Larsen, Matthew Hodgson, Tamar Mishmar

1929 ★ 4.2

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

1954 ★ 3.6

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

2016 ★ 4.0

Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

2011 ★ 3.7

The Sellout

Paul Beatty

2015 ★ 3.8

A deeper love inside

Sister Souljah

2012 ★ 5.0

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward

2017 ★ 3.7

Moth to a flame

Ashley

2010 ★ 5.0

Midnight and the meaning of love

Sister Souljah

2011 ★ 5.0

The trophy wife

Ashley, Ashley & JaQuavis

2010 ★ 4.7

Cane

Jean Toomer

1969

The Gilda Stories

Jewelle Gomez

1991 ★ 4.3

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler, María Barbado Mujica, John Jennings et al.

2017

Bailey's Cafe

Gloria Naylor

1992 ★ 4.3

White Mans Justice, Black Man's Grief

Donald Goines

2004

Every day is for the thief

Teju Cole

2014 ★ 4.0

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead

Randall Kenan

1993

The Prada plan 4.

Ashley

2014

The Banks sisters

Nikki Turner

2015

Guilty Gucci

Ashley

2012

What we lose

Zinzi Clemmons

2018 ★ 4.2

The marrow of tradition

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

1901

Naughtier Than Nice

Eric Jerome Dickey, Eric Dickey

2015

Honor Thy Thug

Wahida Clark

2013

Clotel

M. Giulia Fabi, William Wells Brown

1969

Maneater

Mary B. Morrison and Noire, Mary B. Morrison, Noire

2009

Sag Harbor

Colson Whitehead, Mirron Willis

2009