Best books by Black Authors

[Anonymous]

I say Black because I'm including writers who are not American. So they won't be self-describing as AA.

This is my list of favorites (some of whom are AA) I would love some new suggestions (some of these are very old). Thank you

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Beloved by Toni Morrison
I know why the cage bird sings by Maya Angelou
The color Purple by Alice Walker
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Hate You give by Angie Thomas
The Long Song by Andrea Levy

[Anonymous]

If you haven’t read her yet, Zora Neale Hurston!

[Anonymous]

Adieche - Half of a Yellow Sun, Purple Hibiscus and Americana
I'm sure there are many more less obvious authors. I'm not a avid reader anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Adieche - Half of a Yellow Sun, Purple Hibiscus and Americana
I'm sure there are many more less obvious authors. I'm not a avid reader anymore.

Adichie I meant

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you haven’t read her yet, Zora Neale Hurston!

Thank you, any of her works in particular?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Adieche - Half of a Yellow Sun, Purple Hibiscus and Americana
I'm sure there are many more less obvious authors. I'm not a avid reader anymore.

Adichie I meant

Thank you for these.

[Anonymous]

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

[Anonymous]

Sula by Toni Morrison

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I say Black because I'm including writers who are not American. So they won't be self-describing as AA.

This is my list of favorites (some of whom are AA) I would love some new suggestions (some of these are very old). Thank you

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Beloved by Toni Morrison
I know why the cage bird sings by Maya Angelou
The color Purple by Alice Walker
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Hate You give by Angie Thomas
The Long Song by Andrea Levy

Thanks for posting this list.

I have read most but not all will try the rest.

Amazing books thanks!!

[Anonymous]

Passing by nella Larson
Their eyes were watching god by Zora neale Hurston
Girl, woman, other by Bernadine evaristo

Not novels, but there are so many short stories out there - by Gwendolyn brooks, Richard wright, Ralph Ellison, Alice walker, Langston Hughes, etc. Try looking up anthologies of short stories

[Anonymous]

Octavia butler, especially kindred.

Do you like black authors who are writing books that are not focused on the black experience?

[Anonymous]

Zadie Smith's White Teeth

[Anonymous]

Just Mercy -Bryan Stevenson

[Anonymous]

Any of the books by Attica Locke!

https://www.atticalocke.com/

[Anonymous]

Poets

Robert Hayden, Collected Poems
Ai, especially Cruelty/Killing Floor
Ntozake Shange, especially "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf"
Marilyn Nelson
Jericho Brown
Hayes Davis--From DC area!!
Teri Ellen Cross Davis--from DC area!! https://poets.org/poet/teri-ellen-cross-davis
Lucille Clifton, Quilting (a Pulitzer nom or finalist, can't recall)

Essayists
Roxane Gay, Hunger

Fiction
Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy