The Zora Canon

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100 Best Books by African American Female writers
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,658 members
448 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
22,657 members
370 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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The Fifth Season
by N. K. Jemisin
11,075 members
447 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
11,629 members
319 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
22,404 members
389 reviews
4
3 Members
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An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones
4,990 members
284 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Passing
by Nella Larsen
3,582 members
134 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
17,610 members
260 reviews
4
2 Members
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Parable of the Talents
by Octavia E. Butler
4,919 members
126 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
12,610 members
138 reviews
4
2 Members
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor
14,063 members
395 reviews
4
2 Members
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12
The House of Dies Drear
by Virginia Hamilton
1,759 members
18 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
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13
The Women of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor
2,005 members
27 reviews
4
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The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
by Lucille Clifton
164 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
15
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
by Lorraine Hansberry
403 members
1 review
½ 4.3
Member
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16
Sula
by Toni Morrison
8,929 members
118 reviews
3.9
Member
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17
Where We Stand: Class Matters
by bell hooks
635 members
6 reviews
4
Member
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18
A Mercy
by Toni Morrison
4,036 members
143 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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19
Brown Girl, Brownstones
by Paule Marshall
695 members
5 reviews
3.9
Member
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20
Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
5,494 members
416 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
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21
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
by bell hooks
1,548 members
15 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
22
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
6,687 members
207 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
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23
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
5,010 members
212 reviews
4.1
Member
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24
Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
3,600 members
181 reviews
3.9
Member
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25
Meridian
by Alice Walker
1,436 members
15 reviews
½ 3.6
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26
The Street
by Ann Petry
1,438 members
29 reviews
4.1
Member
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27
Moses, Man of the Mountain
by Zora Neale Hurston
548 members
3 reviews
4
Member
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28
The Salt Eaters
by Toni Cade Bambara
556 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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29
Gorilla, My Love
by Toni Cade Bambara
460 members
4 reviews
3.9
Member
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30
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
by Audre Lorde
2,238 members
29 reviews
½ 4.3
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31
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
6,920 members
152 reviews
½ 4.4
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32
The Heart of a Woman
by Maya Angelou
2,851 members
17 reviews
3.9
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33
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
by Audre Lorde
3,346 members
34 reviews
½ 4.4
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for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
by Ntozake Shange
2,109 members
28 reviews
4.1
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35
Fledgling
by Octavia E. Butler
3,549 members
163 reviews
3.8
36
Women, Race, and Class
by Angela Y. Davis
2,770 members
26 reviews
½ 4.4
37
Coming of Age in Mississippi
by Anne Moody
1,839 members
32 reviews
4
38
Waiting to Exhale
by Terry McMillan
1,831 members
21 reviews
½ 3.5
39
Assata: An Autobiography
by Assata Shakur
1,738 members
24 reviews
½ 4.5
40
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
by Angela Y. Davis
1,731 members
21 reviews
½ 4.3
41
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
by Carol Anderson
1,644 members
38 reviews
½ 4.3
42
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
by Alice Walker
1,605 members
13 reviews
4.2
43
Jubilee
by Margaret Walker
934 members
18 reviews
4.1
44
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
by Zora Neale Hurston
911 members
13 reviews
4.1
45
Selected Poems
by Gwendolyn Brooks
889 members
8 reviews
4.1
46
The Third Life of Grange Copeland
by Alice Walker
826 members
11 reviews
3.9
47
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
by Dorothy E. Roberts
812 members
9 reviews
4
49
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
by Harriet E. Wilson
757 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
50
Corregidora
by Gayl Jones
737 members
28 reviews
½ 3.7
51
Quicksand
by Nella Larsen
731 members
24 reviews
½ 3.6
52
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
670 members
3 reviews
4.1
53
Linden Hills
by Gloria Naylor
644 members
9 reviews
3.8
54
Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo
by Ntozake Shange
638 members
6 reviews
4.1
55
Oreo
by Fran Ross
638 members
20 reviews
3.8
56
Native Guard: Poems
by Natasha Trethewey
616 members
20 reviews
½ 4.3
57
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
by Paula J. Giddings
561 members
3 reviews
4.2
58
Topdog/Underdog
by Suzan-Lori Parks
528 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
59
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
by Monique W. Morris
498 members
5 reviews
4.1
60
Maud Martha
by Gwendolyn Brooks
458 members
15 reviews
4.1
61
Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted
by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
448 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
62
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Stories
by Kathleen Collins
427 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
63
But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies
by Gloria T. Hull
401 members
2 reviews
4
64
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
by Ruha Benjamin
384 members
3 reviews
4
65
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
by Barbara Ransby
326 members
2 reviews
4.1
66
Thomas and Beulah
by Rita Dove
307 members
4 reviews
4
67
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
by Barbara Smith
303 members
½ 4.4
68
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (Feminist Classics)
by Michele Wallace
290 members
½ 3.5
69
The Black Woman: An Anthology
by Toni Cade Bambara
269 members
1 review
½ 4.5
70
The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1995
by Nikki Giovanni
265 members
½ 4.4
71
Ugly Ways
by Tina McElroy Ansa
255 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
72
Sweat (TCG Edition)
by Lynn Nottage
242 members
7 reviews
4
73
Magical Negro
by Morgan Parker
238 members
10 reviews
½ 4.3
74
Blacks
by Gwendolyn Brooks
195 members
2 reviews
½ 4.5
75
Blood Dazzler: Poems
by Patricia Smith
186 members
6 reviews
½ 4.6
76
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
by Simone Browne
184 members
½ 4.4
77
Eva's Man
by Gayl Jones
178 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
78
A Voice from the South
by Anna Julia Cooper
173 members
1 review
4
80
There Is Confusion
by Jessie Redmon Fauset
154 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
81
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
by June Jordan
150 members
½ 4.3
82
Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
by Mary Pattillo-McCoy
136 members
1 review
½ 3.7
83
Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory
by Michele Wallace
133 members
½ 4.5
86
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
by Brittney C. Cooper
100 members
1 review
5
87
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs
by Pearl Cleage
79 members
3 reviews
½ 4.5
88
I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems
by Sonia Sanchez
52 members
4.9
89
Fish Tales
by Nettie Jones
52 members
½ 2.5
90
Funnyhouse of a Negro
by Adrienne Kennedy
51 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
92
The Flagellants
by Carlene Hatcher Polite
38 members
1 review
½ 3.5
93
African American Music: An Introduction
by Mellonee V. Burnim
38 members
95
Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice
by Carla Shedd
33 members
96
We a BaddDDD People
by Sonia Sanchez
32 members
½ 4.3