27 Must-Read Books by Black Authors

By Olivia Mason & Kaytie Norman | Updated on Feb 4, 2020

a collage of books by black authors

Buy The Awkward Black Man at Amazon

The Awkward Black Man

By Walter Mosley

Buy The Underground Railroad at Amazon

The Underground Railroad

By Colson Whitehead

Buy Beloved at Amazon

Beloved

By Toni Morrison

Buy Twelve Years a Slave at Amazon

Twelve Years a Slave

By Solomon Northup

Buy The Man Who Cried I Am at Amazon

The Man Who Cried I Am

By John A. Williams

Buy The Third Life of Grange Copeland at Amazon

The Third Life of Grange Copeland

By Alice Walker

Buy Things Fall Apart at Amazon

Things Fall Apart

By Chinua Achebe

Buy Americanah at Amazon

Americanah

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Buy The Selected Poems of Langston Hughes at Amazon

The Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

By Langston Hughes

Buy Flight to Canada at Amazon

Flight to Canada

By Ishmael Reed

Buy Loving Her at Amazon

Loving Her

By Ann Allen Shockley

Buy Between the World and Me at Amazon

Between the World and Me

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Buy Unexpected Stories at Amazon

Unexpected Stories

By Octavia E. Butler

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Buy White Teeth at Amazon

White Teeth

By Zadie Smith

Buy I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings at Amazon

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By Maya Angelou

Buy To Sir, With Love at Amazon

To Sir, With Love

By E. R. Braithwaite

Buy Linden Hills at Amazon

Linden Hills

By Gloria Naylor

Buy Anthony Burns at Amazon

Anthony Burns

By Virginia Hamilton

Buy The Autobiography of Malcolm X at Amazon

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By Malcolm X, Alex Haley

Buy Babel-17 at Amazon

Babel-17

By Samuel R. Delany

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Buy The Famished Road at Amazon

The Famished Road

By Ben Okri

Buy Mama at Amazon

Mama

By Terry McMillan

Buy Invisible Man at Amazon

Invisible Man

By Ralph Ellison

Buy S O S at Amazon

S O S

By Amiri Baraka

Buy Their Eyes Were Watching God at Amazon

Their Eyes Were Watching God

By Zora Neale Hurston

Buy Go Tell It on the Mountain at Amazon

Go Tell It on the Mountain

By James Baldwin

Buy Sing, Unburied, Sing at Amazon

Sing, Unburied, Sing

By Jesmyn Ward

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Published on 4 Feb 2019