African American Books
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Invisible Man
1952
The Underground Railroad
2016
Kindred
1979
Homegoing
2016
The Help
2009
The Secret Life of Bees
2001
A Time to Kill
1989
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2010
The Color Purple
1982
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1969
Beloved
1987
Their Eyes Were Watching God
1937
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
1995
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
1965
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
1976
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
2006
The Bluest Eye
1970
Wait for You (Wait for You, #1)
2013
The Snowy Day
1962
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
1996
Between the World and Me
2015
Small Great Things
2016
Bud, Not Buddy
1999
Native Son
1940
Song of Solomon
1977
Same Kind of Different as Me
2005
Monster
1999
Black Like Me
1960
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
1995
On Beauty
2005
Mudbound
2008
Cross (Alex Cross, #12)
2006
Bad Feminist
2014
A Lesson Before Dying
1993
Cane River
2001
Sula
1973
Black Boy
1945
Push
1996
Brown Girl Dreaming
2014
Chains (Seeds of America, #1)
2008
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
2010
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
2012
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1953
Beach Road
2006
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
1975
Giovanni's Room
1956
The Coldest Winter Ever
1999
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
2010
An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
2010
Someone Knows My Name
2007
The Souls of Black Folk
1903
A Piece of Cake
2006
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
2010
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
2016
The Mothers
2016
Unlimited Power : The New Science Of Personal Achievement
1986
Mother of Pearl
1999
The Romanov Prophecy
2004
Driving Miss Daisy
1986
The Master Butchers Singing Club
2003
The Heart of a Woman
1981
Up from Slavery
1900
Jazz
1992
The Women of Brewster Place
1982
Citizen: An American Lyric
2014
The Collected Poems
1994
Ford County
2008
Another Brooklyn
2016
The Lions of Little Rock
2012
The Dry Grass of August
2011
Yes, Chef
2012
God Help the Child
2014
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
2000
Possessing the Secret of Joy
1992
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1993
River, Cross My Heart
1999
Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography
1986
The Confessions of Nat Turner
1967
The Temple of My Familiar
1989
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
2011
Disappearing Acts
1989
Henderson the Rain King
1959
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
2007
Amazing Grace
1991
Passing
1929
Assata: An Autobiography
1987
Soul on Ice
1968
Letter to My Daughter
2008
Copper Sun
2006
The Story of Ruby Bridges
1995
The Skin I'm In
1998
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
1982
Restless
2006
Friends and Lovers
1997
The Turner House
2015
Cross Justice (Alex Cross, #23)
2015
Ruby
2014
Season of Migration to the North
1966
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