The Sellout

Paul Beatty

2015 ★ 3.8

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

1970 ★ 4.2

Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis, Alberto Jimenez Rioja, Reginald André Jackson et al.

1999 ★ 4.5

Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

2011 ★ 3.7

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2013 ★ 3.8

Crown

Derrick Barnes

2017 ★ 3.2

Every day is for the thief

Teju Cole

2014 ★ 4.0

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

2016 ★ 4.0

G-Spot

Noire.

2005 ★ 4.0

Lightning men

Thomas Mullen

2017 ★ 3.7

The other side

Jacqueline Woodson

2001 ★ 4.8

Fire and desire

Brenda Jackson

2009 ★ 4.3

The sweetest temptation

Rochelle Alers

2008 ★ 4.2

Roots

Alex Haley

1976 ★ 4.5

The Source of Self-Regard

Toni Morrison

2019 ★ 4.2

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

2016 ★ 4.1

A moment of silence

Sister Souljah

2015 ★ 4.7

The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas

2017 ★ 4.4

Fearing the Black Body

Sabrina Strings

2019 ★ 4.7

What we lose

Zinzi Clemmons

2018 ★ 4.2

The Help

Kathryn Stockett, Alvaro Abella, Álvaro Abella Villar

2009 ★ 4.3

Jubilee

Margaret Walker

1966 ★ 4.8

Native Son

Richard Wright, Richard Wright - undifferentiated

1940 ★ 4.0

Precious

Sapphire

2009 ★ 4.4

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

2015 ★ 4.2

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

1956 ★ 4.2

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler, SparkNotes

1988 ★ 4.4

Black Boy

Richard Wright

1945 ★ 4.1

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler

1993 ★ 4.3

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

1903 ★ 4.1