African American | 42 books
The best African American books
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Clint Smith
How the Word Is Passed
4.7
32 minViola Davis
Finding Me
4.627 minJames Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
4.69 minNikole Hannah-Jones
The 1619 Project
4.621 minHeather McGhee
The Sum of Us
4.623 minIsabel Wilkerson
Caste
4.514 minMichelle Alexander
The New Jim Crow
4.516 minIsabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns
4.514 minIbram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning
4.528 minTa-Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me
4.412 minAlex Haley
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
4.414 minIbram X. Kendi
How to Be an Antiracist
4.410 minTa-Nehisi Coates
We Were Eight Years in Power
4.413 minTressie McMillan Cottom
Thick
4.423 minTabitha Brown
Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business)
4.412 minEddie S. Glaude
Begin Again
4.415 minJames Forman Jr.
Locking Up Our Own
4.412 minAlbert Woodfox
Solitary
4.423 minMaya Angelou
I Know why the Caged Bird Sings
4.316 minW.E.B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk
4.314 minMartin Luther King
The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
4.326 minWhoopi Goldberg
Bits and Pieces
4.317 minJohn Lewis
Across That Bridge
4.318 minSolomon Northup
12 Years a Slave
4.27 minJacqueline Woodson
Brown Girl Dreaming
4.215 minS. A. Cosby
All the Sinners Bleed
4.214 minChris Gardner
The Pursuit of Happyness
4.215 minToni Morrison
The Bluest Eye
4.110 minToni Morrison
Beloved
411 minZora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
411 min