30 Must-Read Books by Black Authors
Celebrate black authors’ fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
By
Olivia Mason & Kaytie Norman | Updated Feb 3, 2021 | Published Feb 4, 2019
The Awkward Black Man
By Walter Mosley
The Underground Railroad
By Colson Whitehead
Twelve Years a Slave
By Solomon Northup
The Man Who Cried I Am
By John A. Williams
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By Frederick Douglass
Behind the Scenes
By Elizabeth Keckley
The Third Life of Grange Copeland
By Alice Walker
Things Fall Apart
By Chinua Achebe
Americanah
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
By Langston Hughes
Flight to Canada
By Ishmael Reed
Loving Her
By Ann Allen Shockley
Between the World and Me
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Unexpected Stories
By Octavia E. Butler
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White Teeth
By Zadie Smith
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
By Maya Angelou
To Sir, With Love
By E. R. Braithwaite
Linden Hills
By Gloria Naylor
Anthony Burns
By Virginia Hamilton
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
By Malcolm X, Alex Haley
Babel-17
By Samuel R. Delany
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The Gift of Black Folk
By W. E. B. Du Bois
The Famished Road
By Ben Okri
Invisible Man
By Ralph Ellison
Their Eyes Were Watching God
By Zora Neale Hurston
Go Tell It on the Mountain
By James Baldwin
Sing, Unburied, Sing
By Jesmyn Ward
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