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Beskrivelse: The 100 greatest books ever written by African American Women

Rank Titel Forfatter Tilføjet

1

A Raisin in the Sun

af Lorraine Hansberry

5,478 medlemmer

79 anmeldelser

3.8

5 Members: aprille, hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

2

Elskede : roman

af Toni Morrison

22,825 medlemmer

406 anmeldelser

3.9

4 Members: aprille, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

3

af Alice Walker

19,717 medlemmer

336 anmeldelser

4.1

4 Members: aprille, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

4

Their Eyes Were Watching God

af Zora Neale Hurston

19,112 medlemmer

346 anmeldelser

4

4 Members: aprille, hipdeep, ahef1963, steller0707

5

The Fifth Season

af N. K. Jemisin

7,996 medlemmer

364 anmeldelser

4.2

4 Members: aprille, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

6

af Toni Morrison

10,823 medlemmer

124 anmeldelser

4

3 Members: aprille, hipdeep, steller0707

7

Parable of the Sower

af Octavia E. Butler

8,102 medlemmer

239 anmeldelser

4.1

3 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

8

An American Marriage

af Tayari Jones

3,945 medlemmer

256 anmeldelser

3.9

3 Members: aprille, ahef1963, steller0707

9

af Nella Larsen

2,705 medlemmer

102 anmeldelser

3.8

3 Members: aprille, ahef1963, steller0707

10

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

af Maya Angelou

14,803 medlemmer

224 anmeldelser

4

2 Members: aprille, steller0707

11

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

af Mildred D. Taylor

11,735 medlemmer

382 anmeldelser

3.9

2 Members: aprille, steller0707

12

af Toni Morrison

7,656 medlemmer

98 anmeldelser

3.8

2 Members: aprille, steller0707

13

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

af Michelle Alexander

5,287 medlemmer

139 anmeldelser

½ 4.4

2 Members: aprille, steller0707

14

Brown Girl Dreaming

af Jacqueline Woodson

4,435 medlemmer

374 anmeldelser

½ 4.4

2 Members: aprille, steller0707

15

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

af Harriet A. Jacobs

4,298 medlemmer

78 anmeldelser

4

2 Members: aprille, hipdeep

16

Sing, Unburied, Sing

3,954 medlemmer

195 anmeldelser

4.1

2 Members: aprille, steller0707

17

Parable of the Talents

af Octavia E. Butler

3,550 medlemmer

96 anmeldelser

4.1

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

18

af Toni Morrison

3,498 medlemmer

142 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

2 Members: aprille, steller0707

19

Salvage the Bones

2,882 medlemmer

162 anmeldelser

3.9

2 Members: aprille, steller0707

20

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

2,622 medlemmer

29 anmeldelser

½ 4.4

2 Members: aprille, steller0707

21

The Heart of a Woman

af Maya Angelou

2,490 medlemmer

16 anmeldelser

3.8

2 Members: aprille, steller0707

22

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

1,867 medlemmer

22 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

2 Members: aprille, steller0707

23

for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf

af Ntozake Shange

1,792 medlemmer

23 anmeldelser

4

2 Members: aprille, steller0707

24

Kvinderne på Brewster Place

af Gloria Naylor

1,788 medlemmer

24 anmeldelser

4

2 Members: aprille, ahef1963

25

The House of Dies Drear

af Virginia Hamilton

1,555 medlemmer

18 anmeldelser

½ 3.4

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

26

af Alice Walker

1,301 medlemmer

12 anmeldelser

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, steller0707

27

1,187 medlemmer

23 anmeldelser

4.1

2 Members: aprille, steller0707

28

The Salt Eaters

af Toni Cade Bambara

448 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, steller0707

29

Moses, Man of the Mountain

af Zora Neale Hurston

443 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

4

2 Members: aprille, steller0707

30

Gorilla, My Love

af Toni Cade Bambara

382 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

3.8

2 Members: aprille, steller0707

31

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

af Isabel Wilkerson

5,233 medlemmer

183 anmeldelser

½ 4.4

Member: aprille

32

af Octavia E. Butler

2,985 medlemmer

146 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: aprille

33

Women, Race, and Class

af Angela Y. Davis

2,068 medlemmer

19 anmeldelser

½ 4.4

Member: aprille

34

Waiting to Exhale

af Terry McMillan

1,687 medlemmer

22 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

Member: aprille

35

Coming of Age in Mississippi

1,626 medlemmer

30 anmeldelser

4

Member: aprille

36

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

af Alice Walker

1,399 medlemmer

10 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: aprille

37

Assata: An Autobiography

af Assata Shakur

1,287 medlemmer

19 anmeldelser

½ 4.4

Member: aprille

38

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

1,275 medlemmer

14 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

Member: aprille

39

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

af Carol Anderson

1,266 medlemmer

32 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

Member: aprille

40

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

af Angela Y. Davis

1,132 medlemmer

17 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: aprille

41

af Margaret Walker

799 medlemmer

15 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: aprille

42

af Gwendolyn Brooks

751 medlemmer

6 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: aprille

43

Hans tredje liv

af Alice Walker

747 medlemmer

8 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: aprille

44

Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

af Zora Neale Hurston

746 medlemmer

14 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: aprille

45

Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

af Harriet E. Wilson

683 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

Member: aprille

46

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

af Dorothy E. Roberts

634 medlemmer

8 anmeldelser

4

Member: aprille

47

Brown Girl, Brownstones

af Paule Marshall

598 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: aprille

48

af Nella Larsen

593 medlemmer

23 anmeldelser

½ 3.6

Member: aprille

49

585 medlemmer

23 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

50

af Gloria Naylor

584 medlemmer

9 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: aprille

51

Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo

af Ntozake Shange

574 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: aprille

52

Where We Stand: Class Matters

553 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

4

Member: aprille

53

Native Guard: Poems

af Natasha Trethewey

536 medlemmer

17 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

Member: aprille

54

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

af Saidiya Hartman

513 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

Member: aprille

55

When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America

af Paula J. Giddings

507 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: aprille

56

479 medlemmer

19 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: aprille

57

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

af Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

469 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: aprille

58

Topdog/Underdog

af Suzan-Lori Parks

465 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

½ 3.6

Member: aprille

59

Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted

af Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

384 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

½ 3.4

Member: aprille

60

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

af Monique W. Morris

376 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: aprille

61

af Gwendolyn Brooks

358 medlemmer

8 anmeldelser

4

Member: aprille

62

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Stories

af Kathleen Collins

357 medlemmer

11 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

63

But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies

af Gloria T. Hull

356 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

4

Member: aprille

64

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

af Lorraine Hansberry

341 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 4.3

Member: aprille

65

Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology

af Barbara Smith

277 medlemmer

½ 4.4

Member: aprille

66

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision

af Barbara Ransby

273 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: aprille

67

Thomas and Beulah

270 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: aprille

68

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

af Ruha Benjamin

265 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: aprille

69

Black macho and the myth of the superwoman

af Michele Wallace

249 medlemmer

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

70

The Black Woman: An Anthology

af Toni Cade Bambara

237 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 4.4

Member: aprille

71

The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1995

af Nikki Giovanni

230 medlemmer

½ 4.4

Member: aprille

72

af Tina McElroy Ansa

229 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

73

af Gwendolyn Brooks

179 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 4.5

Member: aprille

74

Sweat (TCG Edition)

af Lynn Nottage

174 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

4

Member: aprille

75

af Morgan Parker

173 medlemmer

8 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

Member: aprille

76

Blood Dazzler: Poems

af Patricia Smith

159 medlemmer

6 anmeldelser

½ 4.6

Member: aprille

77

152 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 3.6

Member: aprille

78

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness

af Simone Browne

146 medlemmer

½ 4.3

Member: aprille

79

A Voice from the South

af Anna Julia Cooper

137 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

80

The Black Christ (Bishop Henry McNeal Turner/Sojourner Truth Series in Black Religion)

af Kelly Brown Douglas

133 medlemmer

½ 3.5

Member: aprille

81

The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 (American Poets Continuum)

af Lucille Clifton

124 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

4.2

Member: aprille

82

Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan

118 medlemmer

½ 4.3

Member: aprille

83

Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class

af Mary Pattillo-McCoy

118 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

84

There Is Confusion

af Jessie Redmon Fauset

118 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

3.2

Member: aprille

85

Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory

af Michele Wallace

110 medlemmer

Member: aprille

86

Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women

af Mary Helen Washington

104 medlemmer

4.2

Member: aprille

87

The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States

af Ida B. Wells-Barnett

87 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: aprille

88

Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women

af Brittney C. Cooper

77 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

5

Member: aprille

89

Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs

af Pearl Cleage

65 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

½ 4.5

Member: aprille

90

I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems

af Sonia Sanchez

47 medlemmer

4.9

Member: aprille

91

Funnyhouse of a Negro

af Adrienne Kennedy

41 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.6

Member: aprille

92

Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class (George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies)

af Karyn R. Lacy

41 medlemmer

½ 3.5

Member: aprille

93

All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900

af Martha S. Jones

33 medlemmer

5

Member: aprille

94

African American Music: An Introduction

af Mellonee V. Burnim

33 medlemmer

Member: aprille

95

The Flagellants

af Carlene Hatcher Polite

31 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.3

Member: aprille

96

Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice

28 medlemmer

Member: aprille

97

We a BaddDDD People

af Sonia Sanchez

26 medlemmer

4

Member: aprille

98

Radiance from the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art

af Sylvia Ardyn Boone

26 medlemmer

4

Member: aprille

99

The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions (Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and)

af Vilna Bashi Treitler

12 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

4

Member: aprille

100

af Nettie Jones

12 medlemmer

Member: aprille

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