The Zora Canon

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100 Best Books by African American Female writers
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
22,886 members
408 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
19,775 members
335 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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The Fifth Season
by N. K. Jemisin
8,048 members
364 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
8,141 members
239 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
19,173 members
346 reviews
4
3 Members
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An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones
3,967 members
257 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Passing
by Nella Larsen
2,722 members
103 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
14,843 members
224 reviews
4
2 Members
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Parable of the Talents
by Octavia E. Butler
3,567 members
96 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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10
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
10,849 members
124 reviews
4
2 Members
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor
11,797 members
382 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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12
The House of Dies Drear
by Virginia Hamilton
1,566 members
18 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
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13
The Women of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor
1,790 members
25 reviews
4
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The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 (American Poets Continuum)
by Lucille Clifton
124 members
1 review
4.2
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
15
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
by Lorraine Hansberry
345 members
1 review
½ 4.3
Member
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16
Sula
by Toni Morrison
7,673 members
98 reviews
3.8
Member
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17
Where We Stand: Class Matters
by bell hooks
553 members
5 reviews
4
Member
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18
A Mercy
by Toni Morrison
3,509 members
142 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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19
Brown Girl, Brownstones
by Paule Marshall
602 members
5 reviews
3.9
Member
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20
Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
4,448 members
376 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
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21
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
by bell hooks
1,277 members
14 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
22
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
5,256 members
183 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
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23
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
3,973 members
195 reviews
4.1
Member
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24
Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
2,890 members
162 reviews
3.9
Member
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25
Meridian
by Alice Walker
1,303 members
12 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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26
The Street
by Ann Petry
1,190 members
23 reviews
4.1
Member
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27
Moses, Man of the Mountain
by Zora Neale Hurston
444 members
3 reviews
4
Member
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28
The Salt Eaters
by Toni Cade Bambara
452 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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29
Gorilla, My Love
by Toni Cade Bambara
383 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
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30
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
by Audre Lorde
1,873 members
22 reviews
½ 4.3
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
5,314 members
140 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Heart of a Woman
by Maya Angelou
2,499 members
16 reviews
3.8
Member
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33
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
by Audre Lorde
2,637 members
29 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
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for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
by Ntozake Shange
1,795 members
23 reviews
4
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35
Fledgling
by Octavia E. Butler
2,989 members
146 reviews
3.8
36
Women, Race, and Class
by Angela Y. Davis
2,084 members
19 reviews
½ 4.4
37
Waiting to Exhale
by Terry McMillan
1,691 members
22 reviews
½ 3.5
38
Coming of Age in Mississippi
by Anne Moody
1,632 members
30 reviews
4
39
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
by Alice Walker
1,401 members
10 reviews
4.2
40
Assata: An Autobiography
by Assata Shakur
1,294 members
19 reviews
½ 4.4
41
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
by Carol Anderson
1,269 members
32 reviews
½ 4.3
43
Jubilee
by Margaret Walker
801 members
15 reviews
4.1
44
Selected Poems
by Gwendolyn Brooks
751 members
7 reviews
4.1
45
The Third Life of Grange Copeland
by Alice Walker
747 members
8 reviews
3.8
46
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
by Zora Neale Hurston
746 members
13 reviews
4.1
47
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
by Harriet E. Wilson
683 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
48
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
by Dorothy E. Roberts
635 members
8 reviews
4
49
Quicksand
by Nella Larsen
596 members
23 reviews
½ 3.6
50
Corregidora
by Gayl Jones
589 members
23 reviews
½ 3.7
51
Linden Hills
by Gloria Naylor
584 members
9 reviews
3.8
52
Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo
by Ntozake Shange
573 members
5 reviews
4.1
53
Native Guard: Poems
by Natasha Trethewey
536 members
17 reviews
½ 4.3
55
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
by Paula J. Giddings
508 members
3 reviews
4.2
56
Oreo
by Fran Ross
482 members
19 reviews
3.9
57
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
471 members
3 reviews
4.2
58
Topdog/Underdog
by Suzan-Lori Parks
465 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
59
Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted
by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
385 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
60
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
by Monique W. Morris
376 members
5 reviews
4.1
61
Maud Martha
by Gwendolyn Brooks
362 members
8 reviews
4
62
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Stories
by Kathleen Collins
361 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
63
But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies
by Gloria T. Hull
357 members
1 review
4
64
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
by Barbara Smith
277 members
½ 4.4
65
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
by Barbara Ransby
274 members
2 reviews
4.1
66
Thomas and Beulah
by Rita Dove
270 members
4 reviews
3.9
67
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
by Ruha Benjamin
267 members
2 reviews
4.2
68
Black macho and the myth of the superwoman
by Michele Wallace
249 members
½ 3.7
69
The Black Woman: An Anthology
by Toni Cade Bambara
237 members
1 review
½ 4.4
70
The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1995
by Nikki Giovanni
230 members
½ 4.4
71
Ugly Ways
by Tina McElroy Ansa
229 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
72
Blacks
by Gwendolyn Brooks
180 members
2 reviews
½ 4.5
73
Sweat (TCG Edition)
by Lynn Nottage
175 members
5 reviews
4
74
Magical Negro
by Morgan Parker
174 members
8 reviews
½ 4.3
75
Blood Dazzler: Poems
by Patricia Smith
158 members
6 reviews
½ 4.6
76
Eva's Man
by Gayl Jones
153 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
77
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
by Simone Browne
147 members
½ 4.3
78
A Voice from the South
by Anna Julia Cooper
137 members
1 review
½ 3.7
80
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
by June Jordan
118 members
½ 4.3
81
Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
by Mary Pattillo-McCoy
118 members
1 review
½ 3.7
82
There Is Confusion
by Jessie Redmon Fauset
118 members
1 review
3.2
83
Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory
by Michele Wallace
110 members
86
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
by Brittney C. Cooper
77 members
1 review
5
87
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs
by Pearl Cleage
65 members
3 reviews
½ 4.5
88
I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems
by Sonia Sanchez
48 members
4.9
89
Funnyhouse of a Negro
by Adrienne Kennedy
41 members
1 review
½ 3.6
92
African American Music: An Introduction
by Mellonee V. Burnim
33 members
93
The Flagellants
by Carlene Hatcher Polite
31 members
1 review
½ 3.3
94
Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice
by Carla Shedd
28 members
95
We a BaddDDD People
by Sonia Sanchez
26 members
4
98
Fish Tales
by Nettie Jones
12 members