Must-Read Books by Black Authors

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A list of must-read books by Black authors from any era. LibraryThing List of the Month February 2021.
1
Kindred
de Octavia E. Butler
8,384 membres
351 ressenyes
4.2
18 Members
kbuxton, hipdeep, smcwl, charl08, cwittig, krazy4katz, cbl_tn, souloftherose, elkiedee, ahef1963, dianeham, lisadyson, steller0707, yorgos_str, MommaVee, MelissaEHoyt, Evolved, ridwanope
3
Between the World and Me
de Ta-Nehisi Coates
7,737 membres
368 ressenyes
½ 4.4
12 Members
waitingtoderail, rosalita, smcwl, sturlington, LFUMC, tdswjs, R3dH00d, kristilabrie, lisadyson, steller0707, yorgos_str, ridwanope
4
Beloved
de Toni Morrison
22,816 membres
405 ressenyes
3.9
10 Members
kbuxton, ablachly, SqueakyChu, kidzdoc, cwittig, susanbooks, LFUMC, ahef1963, elahrairah, FireflyLover
5
La pròxima vegada el foc
de James Baldwin
4,768 membres
132 ressenyes
½ 4.4
8 Members
rosalita, kidzdoc, krazy4katz, laruebk, TribalRaine, Michael.Rimmer, MommaVee, mila22,mrswebster
6
Tot se'n va en orris
de Chinua Achebe
20,638 membres
432 ressenyes
3.8
7 Members
jannon, cbl_tn, eronn, linda.newman, mrswebster, elahrairah, arjun_ullas
7
Parable of the Sower
de Octavia E. Butler
8,097 membres
238 ressenyes
4.1
6 Members
timspalding, anglemark, elkiedee, TribalRaine, dianeham, ManWithAnAgenda
8
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
de Frederick Douglass
9,253 membres
119 ressenyes
4
5 Members
timspalding, jveezer, al.vick, TribalRaine, CharlesTheB
9
Roots
de Alex Haley
6,744 membres
91 ressenyes
½ 4.3
5 Members
lowelibrary, fionaanne, joyfulmimi, MommaVee, arjun_ullas
10
Giovanni's Room
de James Baldwin
5,520 membres
126 ressenyes
4.2
4 Members
ablachly, SqueakyChu, kidzdoc, MaryJoKennedy
11
Passing
de Nella Larsen
2,702 membres
102 ressenyes
3.8
4 Members
jillmwo, reesetee, charl08, jannon
12
Becoming
de Michelle Obama
8,429 membres
340 ressenyes
½ 4.4
4 Members
linda.newman, allyrod113, FireflyLover, Cameron_McKinley
13
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
de Maya Angelou
14,793 membres
224 ressenyes
4
4 Members
terriks, al.vick, kristilabrie, lowelibrary
14
The Memory of Love
de Aminatta Forna
708 membres
46 ressenyes
4
4 Members
kidzdoc, charl08, elkiedee, MaryJoKennedy
15
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
de Bryan Stevenson
4,673 membres
243 ressenyes
½ 4.6
3 Members
rosalita, RickSommer, Cameron_McKinley
16
Homegoing
de Yaa Gyasi
5,580 membres
276 ressenyes
½ 4.3
3 Members
kbuxton, dudes22, linda.newman
17
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
de Isabel Wilkerson
5,230 membres
183 ressenyes
½ 4.4
3 Members
simchaboston, Euryale, MaryJoKennedy
18
The Bluest Eye
de Toni Morrison
13,418 membres
237 ressenyes
3.9
3 Members
SqueakyChu, mthespinner, eronn
19
The Fifth Season
de N. K. Jemisin
7,982 membres
363 ressenyes
4.2
3 Members
ZiaTroyano, souloftherose, ManWithAnAgenda
20
The Color Purple
de Alice Walker
19,711 membres
335 ressenyes
4.1
3 Members
terriks, al.vick, joyfulmimi
21
Invisible Man
de Ralph Ellison
16,370 membres
212 ressenyes
4
3 Members
kidzdoc, paradoxosalpha, mattries37315
22
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
de Malcolm X
9,779 membres
123 ressenyes
½ 4.3
2 Members
aprille, allyrod113
23
Mumbo Jumbo
de Ishmael Reed
1,028 membres
13 ressenyes
3.8
2 Members
paradoxosalpha, tdswjs
24
Native Son
de Richard Wright
7,714 membres
100 ressenyes
3.9
2 Members
katemcangus, CharlesTheB
25
Song of Solomon
de Toni Morrison
10,817 membres
124 ressenyes
4
2 Members
aprille, megbmore
26
Devil in a Blue Dress
de Walter Mosley
2,589 membres
99 ressenyes
3.8
2 Members
mrswebster, CharlesTheB
27
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
de William Kamkwamba
2,511 membres
142 ressenyes
4.1
2 Members
mattries37315, Cameron_McKinley
28
How Long 'Til Black Future Month?
de N. K. Jemisin
1,432 membres
50 ressenyes
½ 4.3
2 Members
Euryale, ManWithAnAgenda
29
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
de Annette Gordon-Reed
1,282 membres
33 ressenyes
3.9
2 Members
krazy4katz, cbl_tn
30
How to Be an Antiracist
de Ibram X. Kendi
4,055 membres
99 ressenyes
4.2
2 Members
linda.newman, GailNyoka
31
Small Island
de Andrea Levy
3,998 membres
140 ressenyes
3.9
2 Members
teresakayep, ZiaTroyano
32
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
de Trevor Noah
6,114 membres
360 ressenyes
½ 4.4
2 Members
megbmore, linda.newman
33
The Yellow House: A Memoir
de Sarah M. Broom
1,050 membres
41 ressenyes
3.9
2 Members
conceptDawg, kidzdoc
34
Go Tell It on the Mountain
de James Baldwin
5,755 membres
112 ressenyes
3.9
2 Members
kidzdoc, laruebk
35
White Teeth
de Zadie Smith
13,645 membres
248 ressenyes
½ 3.7
2 Members
kidzdoc, allyrod113
36
The Souls of Black Folk
de W. E. B. Du Bois
5,246 membres
68 ressenyes
4.2
Member
susanbooks
37
Parable of the Talents
de Octavia E. Butler
3,548 membres
96 ressenyes
4.1
Member
anglemark
38
Girl, Woman, Other
de Bernardine Evaristo
3,175 membres
133 ressenyes
4.2
Member
SimoneA
39
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
de Roxane Gay
2,230 membres
120 ressenyes
4.2
Member
sturlington
40
Citizen: An American Lyric
de Claudia Rankine
2,017 membres
68 ressenyes
4.2
Member
southernbooklady
41
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
de Carol Anderson
1,264 membres
32 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Member
teresakayep
42
Brown Girl in the Ring
de Nalo Hopkinson
1,180 membres
53 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
tardis
43
If You Come Softly
de Jacqueline Woodson
1,103 membres
51 ressenyes
4
Member
nrmay
44
The Turner House
de Angela Flournoy
984 membres
56 ressenyes
3.8
Member
BLBera
45
Erasure
de Percival Everett
903 membres
35 ressenyes
4.1
Member
R3dH00d
46
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
de Ibram X. Kendi
837 membres
22 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Member
aspirit
47
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
de John Lewis
779 membres
12 ressenyes
½ 4.5
Member
reesetee
48
A Stranger in Olondria
de Sofia Samatar
738 membres
35 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
rarm
49
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
de Harriet E. Wilson
683 membres
7 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Member
jveezer
50
Blanche on the Lam
de Barbara Neely
494 membres
18 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Member
benfulton
51
The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky
de N. K. Jemisin
396 membres
5 ressenyes
½ 4.4
Member
vwinsloe
52
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
de Damon Tweedy
286 membres
17 ressenyes
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
53
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
de Peniel E. Joseph
232 membres
4 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Member
kiparsky
54
Bronzeville Boys and Girls
de Gwendolyn Brooks
183 membres
14 ressenyes
4.1
Member
rb2040
55
Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X
de Anita J. Aboulafia
94 membres
3.9
Member
joyfulmimi
56
Selected Plays and Prose of Amiri Baraka / LeRoi Jones
de Amiri Baraka
20 membres
2
Member
Crypto-Willobie
57
Justice for All: Selected Writings of Lloyd A. Barbee
de Lloyd A Barbee
7 membres
1 ressenya
4
Member
books6548
58
El ferrocarril subterrani
de Colson Whitehead
8,904 membres
452 ressenyes
4
Member
dudes22
59
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
de Nelson Mandela
4,864 membres
62 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Member
aprille
60
The Sellout
de Paul Beatty
3,287 membres
132 ressenyes
3.8
Member
tdswjs
61
A Brief History of Seven Killings
de Marlon James
2,860 membres
108 ressenyes
3.9
Member
anglemark
62
Transcendent Kingdom
de Yaa Gyasi
2,104 membres
101 ressenyes
4
Member
linda.newman
63
All American Boys
de Jason Reynolds
1,854 membres
64 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Member
nrmay
64
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
de Reni Eddo-Lodge
1,710 membres
53 ressenyes
4.2
Member
Michael.Rimmer
65
The Changeling
de Victor LaValle
1,335 membres
77 ressenyes
3.8
Member
Euryale
66
Bluebird, Bluebird
de Attica Locke
993 membres
69 ressenyes
3.8
Member
mrswebster
67
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
de Heather McGhee
817 membres
18 ressenyes
½ 4.5
Member
simchaboston
68
Negroland: A Memoir
de Margo Jefferson
717 membres
29 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
69
Life on Mars: Poems
de Tracy K. Smith
617 membres
19 ressenyes
4.1
Member
hipdeep
70
Binti: The Complete Trilogy
de Nnedi Okorafor
606 membres
17 ressenyes
4.2
Member
tardis
71
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
de Carol Anderson
416 membres
15 ressenyes
½ 4.4
Member
teresakayep
72
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
de Kevin Young
342 membres
10 ressenyes
½ 3.3
Member
waitingtoderail
73
Halsey Street
de Naima Coster
260 membres
10 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
BLBera
74
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
de Nikki Grimes
256 membres
14 ressenyes
½ 4.4
Member
megbmore
75
Magic City
de Jewell Parker Rhodes
90 membres
1 ressenya
½ 4.4
Member
lowelibrary
76
The Homewood Trilogy
de John Edgar Wideman
86 membres
1 ressenya
4
Member
Crypto-Willobie
77
Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir
de Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
65 membres
3 ressenyes
3.9
Member
kristilabrie
78
When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories
de Bernestine Singley
42 membres
½ 3.5
Member
vwinsloe
Explicacions
vwinsloe: Not all of these essays will hit the mark. But a few will remain in your memory forever.
79
Americanah
de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7,706 membres
296 ressenyes
4.2
Member
sturlington
80
Monster
de Walter Dean Myers
5,111 membres
350 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
nrmay
81
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
de Isabel Wilkerson
4,173 membres
162 ressenyes
½ 4.4
Member
ablachly
82
Dhalgren
de Samuel R. Delany
3,730 membres
74 ressenyes
3.8
Member
paradoxosalpha
83
Akata Witch
de Nnedi Okorafor
2,252 membres
126 ressenyes
4
Member
tardis
84
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
de Alice Walker
1,398 membres
10 ressenyes
4.2
Member
terriks
85
Rosewater
de Tade Thompson
1,209 membres
55 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
souloftherose
86
Freshwater
de Akwaeke Emezi
1,130 membres
49 ressenyes
4
Member
Michael.Rimmer
87
The Book of Night Women
de Marlon James
1,068 membres
42 ressenyes
½ 4.4
Member
teresakayep
89
Black Moses
de Alain Mabanckou
203 membres
9 ressenyes
3.1
Member
kristilabrie
90
The Last Days of Louisiana Red
de Ishmael Reed
137 membres
1 ressenya
½ 3.3
Member
Crypto-Willobie
92
On the Real Side
de Mel Watkins
97 membres
½ 4.3
Member
waitingtoderail
93
The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic
de Mahogany L. Browne
95 membres
½ 4.5
Member
susanbooks
Explicacions
susanbooks: Some of the best contemporary poetry you'll read and some stunning contributions to Black Lives Matter literature
94
A Promised Land
de Barack Obama
4,563 membres
131 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Member
kidzdoc
95
Wizard of the Crow
de Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
926 membres
17 ressenyes
4.2
Member
kidzdoc
96
Fences
de August Wilson
1,812 membres
18 ressenyes
3.8
Member
linda.newman
97
An American Marriage
de Tayari Jones
3,946 membres
256 ressenyes
3.9
Member
linda.newman
98
A Portable Paradise
de Roger Robinson
60 membres
2 ressenyes
½ 4.7
Member
kidzdoc
99
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
de Natasha Trethewey
553 membres
30 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Member
kidzdoc
100
A Distant Shore
de Caryl Phillips
219 membres
5 ressenyes
3.8
Member
kidzdoc