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100 Best Books by African American Female writers
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Elskede : roman
af Toni Morrison
22,794 medlemmer
405 anmeldelser
3.9
4 Members
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2
Farven lilla
af Alice Walker
19,687 medlemmer
334 anmeldelser
4.1
4 Members
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3
The Fifth Season
af N. K. Jemisin
7,958 medlemmer
362 anmeldelser
4.2
4 Members
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4
Parable of the Sower
af Octavia E. Butler
8,080 medlemmer
237 anmeldelser
4.1
3 Members
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5
Their Eyes Were Watching God
af Zora Neale Hurston
19,097 medlemmer
345 anmeldelser
4
3 Members
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6
An American Marriage
af Tayari Jones
3,937 medlemmer
256 anmeldelser
3.9
3 Members
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7
Passing
af Nella Larsen
2,694 medlemmer
102 anmeldelser
3.8
3 Members
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8
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
af Maya Angelou
14,775 medlemmer
224 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
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9
Parable of the Talents
af Octavia E. Butler
3,542 medlemmer
96 anmeldelser
4.1
2 Members
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10
Salomons sang
af Toni Morrison
10,814 medlemmer
124 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
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11
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
af Mildred D. Taylor
11,731 medlemmer
382 anmeldelser
3.9
2 Members
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12
The House of Dies Drear
af Virginia Hamilton
1,552 medlemmer
18 anmeldelser
½ 3.4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
13
Kvinderne på Brewster Place
af Gloria Naylor
1,785 medlemmer
24 anmeldelser
4
Member
ahef1963
14
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 (American Poets Continuum)
af Lucille Clifton
124 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4.2
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
15
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
af Lorraine Hansberry
341 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 4.3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
16
Sula
af Toni Morrison
7,647 medlemmer
98 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
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17
Where We Stand: Class Matters
af bell hooks
551 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
18
En velsignelse
af Toni Morrison
3,494 medlemmer
142 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
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19
Brown Girl, Brownstones
af Paule Marshall
597 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
20
Brown Girl Dreaming
af Jacqueline Woodson
4,430 medlemmer
372 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
Member
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21
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
af bell hooks
1,274 medlemmer
14 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
22
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
af Isabel Wilkerson
5,221 medlemmer
183 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
23
Sing, Unburied, Sing
af Jesmyn Ward
3,942 medlemmer
195 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
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24
Salvage the Bones
af Jesmyn Ward
2,877 medlemmer
162 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
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25
Meridian
af Alice Walker
1,300 medlemmer
12 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
Member
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26
The Street
af Ann Petry
1,185 medlemmer
23 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
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27
Moses, Man of the Mountain
af Zora Neale Hurston
443 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
4
Member
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28
The Salt Eaters
af Toni Cade Bambara
447 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
Member
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29
Gorilla, My Love
af Toni Cade Bambara
382 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
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30
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
af Audre Lorde
1,863 medlemmer
22 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
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31
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
af Michelle Alexander
5,277 medlemmer
139 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
Member
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32
The Heart of a Woman
af Maya Angelou
2,487 medlemmer
16 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
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33
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
af Audre Lorde
2,619 medlemmer
29 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
Member
steller0707
34
for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
af Ntozake Shange
1,787 medlemmer
23 anmeldelser
4
Member
steller0707
35
Fledgling
af Octavia E. Butler
2,980 medlemmer
146 anmeldelser
3.8
36
Women, Race, and Class
af Angela Y. Davis
2,064 medlemmer
19 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
37
Waiting to Exhale
af Terry McMillan
1,686 medlemmer
22 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
38
Coming of Age in Mississippi
af Anne Moody
1,624 medlemmer
30 anmeldelser
4
39
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
af Alice Walker
1,396 medlemmer
10 anmeldelser
4.2
40
Assata: An Autobiography
af Assata Shakur
1,285 medlemmer
19 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
41
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
af Carol Anderson
1,262 medlemmer
32 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
42
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
af Angela Y. Davis
1,126 medlemmer
17 anmeldelser
4.2
43
Jubilee
af Margaret Walker
798 medlemmer
15 anmeldelser
4.1
44
Selected Poems
af Gwendolyn Brooks
751 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
4.1
45
Hans tredje liv
af Alice Walker
747 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
3.8
46
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
af Zora Neale Hurston
745 medlemmer
14 anmeldelser
4.1
47
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
af Harriet E. Wilson
683 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
48
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
af Dorothy E. Roberts
636 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
4
49
Quicksand
af Nella Larsen
593 medlemmer
23 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
50
Corregidora
af Gayl Jones
584 medlemmer
23 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
51
Linden Hills
af Gloria Naylor
583 medlemmer
9 anmeldelser
3.8
52
Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo
af Ntozake Shange
574 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
4.1
53
Native Guard: Poems
af Natasha Trethewey
536 medlemmer
17 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
54
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
af Saidiya Hartman
511 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
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
56
Oreo
af Fran Ross
477 medlemmer
19 anmeldelser
3.9
57
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
af Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
469 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
4.2
58
Topdog/Underdog
af Suzan-Lori Parks
464 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
59
Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted
af Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
384 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 3.4
60
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
af Monique W. Morris
373 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
4.1
61
But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies
af Gloria T. Hull
357 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4
62
Maud Martha
af Gwendolyn Brooks
356 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
4
63
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Stories
af Kathleen Collins
355 medlemmer
11 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
64
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
af Barbara Smith
276 medlemmer
½ 4.4
65
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
af Barbara Ransby
273 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
4.1
66
Thomas and Beulah
af Rita Dove
270 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
3.9
67
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
af Ruha Benjamin
264 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
4.2
68
Black macho and the myth of the superwoman
af Michele Wallace
249 medlemmer
½ 3.7
69
The Black Woman: An Anthology
af Toni Cade Bambara
237 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 4.4
70
The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1995
af Nikki Giovanni
229 medlemmer
½ 4.4
71
Ugly Ways
af Tina McElroy Ansa
229 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
72
Blacks
af Gwendolyn Brooks
178 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 4.5
73
Magical Negro
af Morgan Parker
173 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
74
Sweat (TCG Edition)
af Lynn Nottage
173 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
4
75
Blood Dazzler: Poems
af Patricia Smith
159 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
½ 4.6
76
Eva's Man
af Gayl Jones
152 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
77
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
af Simone Browne
146 medlemmer
½ 4.3
78
A Voice from the South
af Anna Julia Cooper
137 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.7
79
The Black Christ (Bishop Henry McNeal Turner/Sojourner Truth Series in Black Religion)
af Kelly Brown Douglas
131 medlemmer
½ 3.5
80
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
af June Jordan
118 medlemmer
½ 4.3
81
Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
af Mary Pattillo-McCoy
118 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.7
82
There Is Confusion
af Jessie Redmon Fauset
118 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3.2
83
Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory
af Michele Wallace
110 medlemmer
84
Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women
af Mary Helen Washington
104 medlemmer
4.2
85
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
86
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
af Brittney C. Cooper
77 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
5
87
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs
af Pearl Cleage
65 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 4.5
88
I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems
af Sonia Sanchez
47 medlemmer
4.9
89
Funnyhouse of a Negro
af Adrienne Kennedy
41 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.6
91
All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
af Martha S. Jones
33 medlemmer
5
92
African American Music: An Introduction
af Mellonee V. Burnim
33 medlemmer
93
The Flagellants
af Carlene Hatcher Polite
31 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.3
94
Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice
af Carla Shedd
28 medlemmer
95
We a BaddDDD People
af Sonia Sanchez
26 medlemmer
4
96
Radiance from the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art
af Sylvia Ardyn Boone
26 medlemmer
4
97
The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions (Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and)
af Vilna Bashi Treitler
12 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4
98
Fish Tales
af Nettie Jones
12 medlemmer