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What are your favorite books by black authors?

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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?

The Fifth Season
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
Dawn
Becoming
A Promised Land
Parable of the Sower
The Hate U Give
The Rage of Dragons
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
How to Be an Antiracist
Such a Fun Age
With the Fire on High
Homegoing
The Last Black Unicorn
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dear Justyce
Raybearer
So You Want to Talk about Race
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
The Nickel Boys
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Allegedly
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Clap When You Land
Witchmark
Dear Martin
White Teeth
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
The Body Is Not an Apology The Power of Radical Self-Love
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Kaffir Boy
You Are Your Best Thing
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
Lead from the Outside
Friday Black
Wild Seed
The Wretched of the Earth
The Prey of Gods
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
SLAY
Pride
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Bad Witch Burning
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Basic Economics : A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
The Heart of a Woman
Mom & Me & Mom
All Her Little Secrets
Real Men Knit
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes
Gather Together in My Name
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
Chain Gang All Stars
The Roommate Risk
All the Sinners Bleed
That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Purple Hibiscus
Rosewater
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Binti
When I Was the Greatest
Monster: A Graphic Novel
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Things Fall Apart
The Skin I'm In
Devil in a Blue Dress
Kindred
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
Dark Matter
Assata: An Autobiography
Beloved
Between the World and Me
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas