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
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