The publishing industry has struggled to embrace new voices. Many amazing authors have managed to get their voices out–overcoming all obstacles. What books stand out to you as your favorites by black author?
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The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin
4.33
707 reads
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
N.K. Jemisin
4.23
55 reads
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah
4.54
387 reads
Becoming
Michelle Obama
4.46
316 reads
Dawn
Octavia E. Butler
3.96
16 reads
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
4.27
150 reads
The Last Black Unicorn
3.71
42 reads
So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
4.58
109 reads
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
3.87
228 reads
Raybearer
Jordan Ifueko
4.3
60 reads
The Rage of Dragons
Evan Winter
4.25
131 reads
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
4.14
354 reads
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
4.51
178 reads
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
4.5
357 reads
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
4.17
165 reads
The Skin I'm In
Sharon G. Flake
4
7 reads
Real Men Knit
Kwana Jackson
3.5
14 reads
Dark Matter
W.E.B. Du Bois
Kalamu ya Salaam
Samuel R. Delany
Nalo Hopkinson
Akua Lezli Hope
Charles W. Chesnutt
Linda Addison
Charles R. Saunders
Nisi Shawl
Steven Barnes
Jewelle L. Gómez
Henry Dumas
Tony Medina
Kiini Ibura Salaam
Robert Fleming
Derrick A. Bell
Darryl A. Smith
Ama Patterson
Walter Mosley
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Paul D. Miller
Evie Shockley
Leone Ross
Tananarive Due
Amiri Baraka
Octavia E. Butler
3
2 reads
With the Fire on High
Elizabeth Acevedo
4.44
82 reads
Bad Witch Burning
Jessica Lewis
5
2 reads
Wild Seed
Octavia E. Butler
4
61 reads
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
Kimberly Lemming
3.76
71 reads
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
4.18
80 reads
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Mariame Kaba
5
9 reads
The Prey of Gods
Nicky Drayden
3.63
16 reads
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
Lesley Nneka Arimah
4.18
21 reads
Kaffir Boy
Mark Mathabane
3.67
5 reads
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
Junauda Petrus
3.75
11 reads
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
Emmanuel Acho
4.61
27 reads
Monster: A Graphic Novel
Walter Dean Myers
3.58
30 reads
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
4.24
146 reads
Assata
Assata Shakur
4.58
13 reads
Devil in a Blue Dress
Walter Mosley
3.81
24 reads
Witchmark
C. L. Polk
C. L. Polk
3.88
53 reads
Lead from the Outside
Stacey Abrams
4.5
5 reads
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
3.95
181 reads
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Samantha Irby
4.05
40 reads
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
Uché Blackstock
4.5
3 reads
All Her Little Secrets
Wanda M. Morris
3.79
17 reads
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
3.59
240 reads
Beloved
Toni Morrison
3.94
222 reads
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
4.34
133 reads
The Heart of a Woman
Maya Angelou
4.38
13 reads
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human
Kimberly Lemming
3.96
18 reads
The Roommate Risk
Talia Hibbert
4.06
9 reads
The Body Is Not an Apology The Power of Radical Self-Love
Sonya Renee Taylor
4.08
29 reads
Pride
Ibi Zoboi
3.68
32 reads
Stamped
Jason Reynolds
Ibram X. Kendi
4.22
26 reads
When I Was the Greatest
Jason Reynolds
4
2 reads
Rosewater
Tade Thompson
3.84
62 reads
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
Maya Angelou
4.25
5 reads
Basic Economics : A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
Thomas Sowell
4.25
8 reads
All the Sinners Bleed
S. A. Cosby
4.32
62 reads
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
Roseanne A. Brown
4.07
36 reads
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
Marlon James
2.93
82 reads
That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf