Here's our list inspired by Pyramid Books’ Customers Handpicked favorites every African American should read 1. Native Son ......Richard Wright 2. Salvage The Bones....Jesmyn Ward 3. The Bluest Eye....Toni Morrison 4. A Lesson Before Dying....Ernest Gaines 5. Devil In A Blue Dress......Walter Mosley 6. Blood In My Eye......George L. Jackson 7. Black Boy .....Richard Wright 8. Things Fall Apart....Chinua Achebe 9. The Wretched of the Earth......Frantz Fanon 10. The Souls of Black Folk....W.E.B. Dubois 11. From Superman to Man… J. A. Rogers 12. The Warmth of Other Suns...Isabel Wilkerson 13. The Women of Brewster Place...Gloria Naylor 14. White Teeth...Zadie Smith 15. Their Eyes Were Watching God...Zora Hurston 16. The Value In The Valley ....Iyanla Vanzant 17. The Color Purple...Alice Walker 18. The Intuitionist...Colson Whitehead 19. The Sexy Part Of The Bible....Kola Boof 20. Roots... Alex Haley 21. Our Kind of People... Lawrence Otis Graham 22. The Other Side of Paradise.... Staceyann Chin 23. Go Tell It on the Mountain... James Baldwin 24. Facing Mount Kenya… Jomo Kenyatta 25. The New Jim Crow .... Michelle Alexander 26. Nervous Conditions... Tsiti Dangarembga 27. The Autobiography of Malcolm X... Alex Haley 28. Two Thousand Seasons… Ayi Kwei Armah 29. Kindred...Octavia Butler 30. The Known World...Edward P. Jones 31. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings...Maya Angelou 32. Invisible Man...Ralph Ellison 33. Brainwashed…Tom Burrell 34. Half of a Yellow Sun…Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 35. Return to the African Mother Principle of Male and Female Equality… Oba T’Shaka 36. The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings… Olaudah Equiano 37. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere…ZZ Packer 38. Dreams From My Father….Barack Obama 39. Coconut….. Kopano Matlwa 40. Coffee Will Make You Black… April Sinclair 41. Breath, Eyes, Memory… Edwidge Danticat 42. Of Water and the Spirit… Malidoma Patrice Some 43. Assata… Assata Shakur 44. Faces At The Bottom Of The Well…Derrick Bell 45. Message To The Blackman….Elijah Muhammad 46. The Isis Papers….. Frances Cress Welsing 47. They Came Before Columbus… Ivan Van Sertima 48. The Mis-Education of the Negro...Carter G Woodson 49. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass … Frederick Douglass 50. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome…Joy Leary “Restoring the kingdom one book at a time.” www.PyramidBooks.com 561-731-4422

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Page 1: “Restoring the kingdom one book at a time.”

Here's our list inspired by Pyramid Books’ Customers Handpicked favorites every African American should read

1. Native Son ......Richard Wright 2. Salvage The Bones....Jesmyn Ward3. The Bluest Eye....Toni Morrison4. A Lesson Before Dying....Ernest Gaines5. Devil In A Blue Dress......Walter Mosley6. Blood In My Eye......George L. Jackson7. Black Boy.....Richard Wright8. Things Fall Apart....Chinua Achebe9. The Wretched of the Earth......Frantz Fanon10. The Souls of Black

Folk....W.E.B. Dubois11. From Superman to Man…

J. A. Rogers 12. The Warmth of Other

Suns...Isabel Wilkerson13. The Women of Brewster

Place...Gloria Naylor14. White Teeth...Zadie

Smith15. Their Eyes Were Watching

God...Zora Hurston16. The Value In The

Valley....Iyanla Vanzant17. The Color Purple...Alice Walker18. The Intuitionist...Colson Whitehead 19. The Sexy Part Of The Bible....Kola Boof 20. Roots... Alex Haley21. Our Kind of People... Lawrence Otis Graham22. The Other Side of Paradise.... Staceyann Chin23. Go Tell It on the Mountain... James Baldwin24. Facing Mount Kenya… Jomo Kenyatta25. The New Jim Crow.... Michelle Alexander

26. Nervous Conditions... Tsiti Dangarembga27. The Autobiography of Malcolm X... Alex Haley28. Two Thousand Seasons… Ayi Kwei Armah29. Kindred...Octavia Butler30. The Known World...Edward P. Jones31. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings...Maya Angelou 32. Invisible Man...Ralph Ellison33. Brainwashed…Tom Burrell34. Half of a Yellow Sun…Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

35. Return to the African Mother Principle of Male and Female Equality… Oba T’Shaka

36. The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings… Olaudah Equiano

37. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere…ZZ Packer

38. Dreams From My Father….Barack Obama

39. Coconut….. Kopano Matlwa40. Coffee Will Make You Black…

April Sinclair41. Breath, Eyes, Memory… Edwidge Danticat42. Of Water and the Spirit… Malidoma Patrice Some43. Assata… Assata Shakur44. Faces At The Bottom Of The Well…Derrick Bell45. Message To The Blackman….Elijah Muhammad 46. The Isis Papers….. Frances Cress Welsing47. They Came Before Columbus… Ivan Van Sertima48. The Mis-Education of the Negro...Carter G Woodson49. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass …

Frederick Douglass50. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome…Joy Leary

“Restoring the kingdom one book at

a time.” www.PyramidBooks.com 561-731-4422

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