(71 Books) What are your favorite books by black authors?

#1 of 3 in The Broken Earth

The Fifth Season

ByN.K. Jemisin

2015 • 2,257 Readers • 421 pages • 4.4

How Long 'til Black Future Month?

ByN.K. Jemisin

208 Readers • 4.2

Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

ByTrevor Noah

2016 • 937 Readers • 288 pages • 4.6

Becoming

ByMichelle Obama

13 • 837 Readers • 426 pages • 4.5

#1 of 1 in The Presidential Memoirs

A Promised Land

ByBarack Obama

2020 • 554 Readers • 768 pages • 4.3

#1 of 3 in Xenogenesis

Dawn

ByOctavia E. Butler

1987 • 86 Readers • 248 pages • 4

#1 of 2 in Earthseed

Parable of the Sower

ByOctavia E. Butler

1993 • 1,211 Readers • 350 pages • 4.2

#1 of 3 in The Burning

The Rage of Dragons

ByEvan Winter

2017 • 676 Readers • 528 pages • 4.3

#1 of 2 in Raybearer

Raybearer

ByJordan Ifueko

2020 • 285 Readers • 320 pages • 4.4

The Last Black Unicorn

ByTiffany Haddish(Author/Narrator)

2017 • 105 Readers • 7 pages • 3.7

#1 of 1 in The Hate U Give

The Hate U Give

ByAngie Thomas

2017 • 986 Readers • 444 pages • 4.5

Such a Fun Age

ByKiley Reid

2019 • 718 Readers • 313 pages • 3.8

Homegoing

ByYaa Gyasi

2016 • 709 Readers • 468 pages • 4.5

So You Want to Talk about Race

ByIjeoma Oluo

2018 • 372 Readers • 7h 42m • 4.6

#1 of 3 in The Autobiographies

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

ByFrederick Douglass

1845 • 213 Readers • 98 pages • 4.2

#1 of 6 in Maya Angelou's Autobiography

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

ByMaya Angelou

1969 • 614 Readers • 309 pages • 4.1

#3 of 6 in Maya Angelou's Autobiography

Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

ByMaya Angelou

1976 • 12 Readers • 258 pages • 4.3

Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

BySamantha Irby

2020 • 156 Readers • 319 pages • 4

#1 of 2 in A Song of Wraiths and Ruin

A Song of Wraiths and Ruin

ByRoseanne A. Brown

2020 • 218 Readers • 480 pages • 4

The Nickel Boys

ByColson Whitehead

2019 • 518 Readers • 224 pages • 4.2

#1 of 3 in The Dark Star Trilogy

Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)

ByMarlon James

2019 • 549 Readers • 612 pages • 3.1

How to Be an Antiracist

ByIbram X. Kendi,Heike Schlatterer(Translator)

2019 • 466 Readers • 401 pages • 4.3

#2 of 2 in Dear Martin

Dear Justyce

ByNic Stone

2020 • 44 Readers • 204 pages • 4.1

Allegedly

ByTiffany D. Jackson

2017 • 139 Readers • 390 pages • 3.9

Stamped

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

ByIbram X. Kendi,Jason Reynolds

2020 • 173 Readers • 320 pages • 4.4

#1 of 3 in The Kingston Cycle

Witchmark

ByC. L. Polk,C. L Polk

2018 • 210 Readers • 318 pages • 4

#1 of 2 in Dear Martin

Dear Martin

ByNic Stone

2017 • 175 Readers • 224 pages • 4.2

White Teeth

ByZadie Smith

2001 • 346 Readers • 448 pages • 3.9

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

ByAnthony Ray Hinton,Lara Love Hardin

2018 • 133 Readers • 272 pages • 4.5

The Body Is Not an Apology The Power of Radical Self-Love

BySonya Renee Taylor

2018 • 103 Readers • 292 pages • 4.1

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

ByAngela Y. Davis

1974 • 32 Readers • 410 pages • 4

Kaffir Boy

ByMark Mathabane

1986 • 12 Readers • 354 pages • 3.7

You Are Your Best Thing

ByTarana Burke,Brené Brown

2021 • 19 Readers • 256 pages • 4.5

Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man

ByEmmanuel Acho

2020 • 72 Readers • 288 pages • 4.5

Lead from the Outside

ByStacey Abrams

2018 • 15 Readers • 226 pages • 4.5

#1 of 4 in Patternmaster

Wild Seed

ByOctavia E. Butler

1980 • 217 Readers • 248 pages • 4

The Wretched of the Earth

ByFrantz Fanon,Richard Philcox(Translator)

1961 • 197 Readers • 336 pages • 4.3

The Prey of Gods

ByNicky Drayden

2017 • 93 Readers • 400 pages • 3.6

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

ByJunauda Petrus

2019 • 65 Readers • 312 pages • 3.8

Pride

ByIbi Zoboi

2018 • 83 Readers • 304 pages • 3.6

Abolition. Feminism. Now.

ByAngela Y. Davis,Gina Dent,+2 more

2022 • 22 Readers • 173 pages • 4.3

Bad Witch Burning

ByJessica Lewis

2021 • 27 Readers • 341 pages • 5

We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

ByMariame Kaba

2021 • 51 Readers • 240 pages • 5

Basic Economics : A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

ByThomas Sowell

2000 • 66 Readers • 448 pages • 4.3

#4 of 6 in Maya Angelou's Autobiography

The Heart of a Woman

ByMaya Angelou

1981 • 37 Readers • 288 pages • 4.4

#7 of 6 in Maya Angelou's Autobiography

Mom & Me & Mom

ByMaya Angelou

2013 • 35 Readers • 4.3

All Her Little Secrets

ByWanda M. Morris

2021 • 77 Readers • 384 pages • 3.8

#1 of 2 in Real Men Knit

Real Men Knit

ByKwana Jackson

2020 • 58 Readers • 338 pages • 3.3

All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes

ByMaya Angelou

2013 • 3 Readers • 240 pages • 4.5

#2 of 6 in Maya Angelou's Autobiography

Gather Together in My Name

ByMaya Angelou

1985 • 23 Readers • 224 pages • 4.1

#1 of 3 in Mead Mishaps

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon

ByKimberly Lemming

2021 • 247 Readers • 192 pages • 3.9

#2 of 3 in The Midnight Heat Collection

The Roommate Risk

ByTalia Hibbert

2018 • 40 Readers • 352 pages • 4.1

All the Sinners Bleed

ByS. A. Cosby

2023 • 273 Readers • 352 pages • 4.3

#2 of 3 in Mead Mishaps

That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf

ByKimberly Lemming

2022 • 97 Readers • 246 pages • 3.9

#3 of 3 in Mead Mishaps

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human

ByKimberly Lemming

2023 • 69 Readers • 310 pages • 3.9

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

ByUché Blackstock

2024 • 19 Readers • 305 pages • 4.5

Their Eyes Were Watching God

ByZora Neale Hurston

1937 • 611 Readers • 260 pages • 3.9

#1 of 3 in The Wormwood Trilogy

Rosewater

ByTade Thompson

2017 • 288 Readers • 400 pages • 3.8

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

ByAudre Lorde

1982 • 96 Readers • 265 pages • 4.4

When I Was the Greatest

ByJason Reynolds

2014 • 18 Readers • 240 pages • 3.8

Monster: A Graphic Novel

ByWalter Dean Myers

1999 • 65 Readers • 160 pages • 3.6

#4 of 7 in Logans

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

ByMildred D. Taylor

1976 • 122 Readers • 304 pages • 4

#1 of 3 in The African Trilogy

Things Fall Apart

ByChinua Achebe

1958 • 694 Readers • 185 pages • 3.7

#1 of 2 in The Skin I'm In

The Skin I'm In

BySharon G. Flake

1998 • 15 Readers • 176 pages • 4

#1 of 11 in Easy Rawlins

Devil in a Blue Dress

ByWalter Mosley

1990 • 92 Readers • 240 pages • 3.8

With the Fire on High

ByElizabeth Acevedo

2019 • 270 Readers • 416 pages • 4.4

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky

ByLesley Nneka Arimah

2017 • 100 Readers • 240 pages • 4

#1 of 1 in Dark Matter

Dark Matter

ByW.E.B. Du Bois,Kalamu ya Salaam,+24 more

33 Readers • 3

Assata: An Autobiography

ByAssata Shakur

1987 • 100 Readers • 274 pages • 4.6

#1 of 2 in Beloved Trilogy

Beloved

ByToni Morrison

1987 • 879 Readers • 362 pages • 3.9

Between the World and Me

ByTa-Nehisi Coates

2015 • 810 Readers • 166 pages • 4.6

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