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
887 reads
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
N.K. Jemisin
4.22
70 reads
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah
4.55
488 reads
Becoming
Michelle Obama
4.48
426 reads
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
4.31
197 reads
Dawn
Octavia E. Butler
4.03
20 reads
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
4.14
450 reads
The Rage of Dragons
Evan Winter
4.28
161 reads
Raybearer
Jordan Ifueko
4.32
68 reads
The Last Black Unicorn
3.71
42 reads
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
4.51
464 reads
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
3.84
301 reads
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
4.48
234 reads
So You Want to Talk about Race
Ijeoma Oluo
4.61
144 reads
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
4.17
97 reads
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
4.15
197 reads
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
Maya Angelou
4.25
5 reads
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Samantha Irby
3.91
47 reads
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
Roseanne A. Brown
4.13
46 reads
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
4.23
199 reads
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
Marlon James
3.05
102 reads
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
Heike Schlatterer (Translator)
4.36
187 reads
Dear Justyce
Nic Stone
4.17
25 reads
Allegedly
Tiffany D. Jackson
4
56 reads
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds
Ibram X. Kendi
4.39
41 reads
Witchmark
C. L. Polk
C. L Polk
3.94
63 reads
Dear Martin
Nic Stone
4.17
74 reads
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
3.91
119 reads
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton
Lara Love Hardin
4.63
31 reads
The Body Is Not an Apology The Power of Radical Self-Love
Sonya Renee Taylor
4.11
35 reads
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Angela Y. Davis
4
5 reads
Kaffir Boy
Mark Mathabane
3.67
5 reads
You Are Your Best Thing
Tarana Burke
Brené Brown
4.5
6 reads
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
Emmanuel Acho
4.53
34 reads
Lead from the Outside
Stacey Abrams
4.5
5 reads
Wild Seed
Octavia E. Butler
4
73 reads
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
Richard Philcox (Translator)
4.28
28 reads
The Prey of Gods
Nicky Drayden
3.63
16 reads
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
Junauda Petrus
3.9
14 reads
Pride
Ibi Zoboi
3.57
38 reads
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Angela Y. Davis
Gina Dent
Erica R. Meiners
Beth E. Richie
4.33
7 reads
Bad Witch Burning
Jessica Lewis
5
2 reads
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Mariame Kaba
5
11 reads
Basic Economics : A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
Thomas Sowell
4.33
10 reads
The Heart of a Woman
Maya Angelou
4.38
13 reads
Mom & Me & Mom
Maya Angelou
4.25
11 reads
All Her Little Secrets
Wanda M. Morris
3.81
19 reads
Real Men Knit
Kwana Jackson
3.5
14 reads
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes
Maya Angelou
4.5
2 reads
Gather Together in My Name
Maya Angelou
4.05
12 reads
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
Kimberly Lemming
3.81
89 reads
The Roommate Risk
Talia Hibbert
4.1
17 reads
All the Sinners Bleed
S. A. Cosby
4.32
100 reads
That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf
Kimberly Lemming
3.74
36 reads
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human
Kimberly Lemming
3.86
26 reads
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine