What are your favorite books by black authors?

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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Details	Rating	Readers Count
The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin	4.35	1,224 reads
Becoming Michelle Obama	4.46	584 reads
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Trevor Noah	4.55	696 reads
How Long 'til Black Future Month? N.K. Jemisin	4.22	102 reads
Dawn Octavia E. Butler	4.06	34 reads
A Promised Land Barack Obama	4.28	304 reads
Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler	4.14	644 reads
The Hate U Give Angie Thomas	4.5	641 reads
The Rage of Dragons Evan Winter	4.28	212 reads
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass	4.21	136 reads
With the Fire on High Elizabeth Acevedo	4.39	130 reads
Raybearer Jordan Ifueko	4.28	101 reads
Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid	3.81	391 reads
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi	4.47	333 reads
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou	4.15	298 reads
The Last Black Unicorn Tiffany Haddish	3.64	68 reads
How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi Heike Schlatterer (Translator)	4.33	263 reads
So You Want to Talk about Race Ijeoma Oluo	4.58	185 reads
Dear Justyce Nic Stone	4.23	28 reads
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays Samantha Irby	3.94	71 reads
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin Roseanne A. Brown	4.01	58 reads
The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead	4.27	300 reads
Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James	3.09	138 reads
Allegedly Tiffany D. Jackson	3.96	67 reads
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You Ibram X. Kendi Jason Reynolds	4.41	60 reads
Clap When You Land Elizabeth Acevedo	4.2	172 reads
Witchmark C. L. Polk C. L Polk	3.99	81 reads
Dear Martin Nic Stone	4.22	95 reads
White Teeth Zadie Smith	3.82	173 reads
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row Anthony Ray Hinton Lara Love Hardin	4.51	48 reads
The Body Is Not an Apology The Power of Radical Self-Love Sonya Renee Taylor	4.05	44 reads
Angela Davis: An Autobiography Angela Y. Davis	3	4 reads
Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane	4.2	9 reads
You Are Your Best Thing Tarana Burke Brené Brown	4.5	6 reads
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man Emmanuel Acho	4.47	46 reads
Lead from the Outside Stacey Abrams	4.43	8 reads
Friday Black Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah	4.15	61 reads
Wild Seed Octavia E. Butler	3.91	108 reads
The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon Richard Philcox (Translator)	4.42	47 reads
The Prey of Gods Nicky Drayden	3.7	28 reads
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them Junauda Petrus	3.88	17 reads
SLAY Brittney Morris	4.33	43 reads
Pride Ibi Zoboi	3.57	63 reads
Abolition. Feminism. Now. Angela Y. Davis Gina Dent Erica R. Meiners Beth E. Richie	4.33	6 reads
Bad Witch Burning Jessica Lewis	4.25	6 reads
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice Mariame Kaba	4.62	19 reads
Basic Economics : A Citizen's Guide to the Economy Thomas Sowell	4.27	15 reads
The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou	4.42	19 reads
Mom & Me & Mom Maya Angelou	4.4	13 reads
All Her Little Secrets Wanda M. Morris	3.6	26 reads
Real Men Knit Kwana Jackson	3.26	23 reads
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes Maya Angelou	4.5	2 reads
Gather Together in My Name Maya Angelou	4.12	21 reads
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon Kimberly Lemming	3.82	145 reads
Chain Gang All Stars Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah	4.16	169 reads
The Roommate Risk Talia Hibbert	3.88	27 reads
All the Sinners Bleed S. A. Cosby	4.27	134 reads
That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf Kimberly Lemming	3.94	56 reads
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human Kimberly Lemming	3.85	38 reads
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine Uché Blackstock	4.5	5 reads
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston	3.92	334 reads
Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	4.1	97 reads
Rosewater Tade Thompson	3.79	122 reads
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Audre Lorde	4.5	30 reads
Binti Nnedi Okorafor	3.91	156 reads
When I Was the Greatest Jason Reynolds	3.75	4 reads
Monster: A Graphic Novel Walter Dean Myers	3.47	57 reads
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor	3.97	104 reads
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe	3.64	468 reads
The Skin I'm In Sharon G. Flake	3.67	8 reads
Devil in a Blue Dress Walter Mosley	3.81	37 reads
Kindred Octavia E. Butler	4.36	520 reads
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky Lesley Nneka Arimah	4.16	29 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
Assata: An Autobiography Assata Shakur	4.68	29 reads
Beloved Toni Morrison	3.91	413 reads
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates	4.54	544 reads
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas Maya Angelou	4.25	5 reads