100 Must Read African American Books Checklist How many have YOU read? from www.listchallenges.com
Autobiography of Malcolm X Things Fall Apart Decoded
Malcolm X Chinua Achebe Jay-Z
Roots Bluest Eye What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day
Alex Haley Toni Morrison Pearl Cleage
Jubilee Native Son Waiting To Exhale
Margaret Walker Richard Wright Terry McMillan
Kindred Other Side of Paradise Uncle Tom’s Children Octavia Butler Stacyann Chin Richard Wright
Their Eyes Were Watching God Intuitionist Assata Zora Neale Hurston Colson Whitehead Assata Shakur
Up From Slavery Souls of Black Folk Corregidora Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois Gayl Jones
Invisible Man Ways of White Folks Makes Me Wanna Holler Ralph Ellison Langston Hughes Nathan McCall
Color Purple White Boy Shuffle I Put a Spell On You Alice Walker Paul Beatty Nina Simone
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Iced Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self Harriet Jacobs Ray Shell Danielle Evans
Another Country Women of Brewster Place Coldest Winter Ever James Baldwin Gloria Naylor Sister Souljah
Go Tell It On the Mountain Beloved Push James Baldwin Toni Morrison Sapphire
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Fire Next Time Dreams For My Father Maya Angelou James Baldwin Barack Obama
Known World Parable of the Talents Interesting Narrative of the Life of Edward P. Jones Octavia Butler Olaudah Equiano
Plum Bun Olaudah Equiano One Day My Soul Just Opened Up
Jessie Redmon Fauset Iyanla Vanzant Race Matters
The Street Cornel West Blacker the Berry
Ann Petry Wallace Thurman For Colored Boys Who Have Considered
Cane Suicide When the Rainbow Still Isn’t Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Jean Toomer Enough Audre Lourde Keith Boykin (ed.) Black Thunder: Gabriel’s Revolt: Virginia Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered 1800 Frederick Douglass Anna Bontemps Suicide When the Rainbow Isn’t Enough Ntozake Shange One More River to Cross I, Tina Possessing the Secret of Joy
Jim Haskins Tina Turner Alice Walker
Warmth of Other Suns The Pittsburg h Cycle Tar Baby
Isabel Wilkerson August Wilson Toni Morrison
Wretched of the Earth Red River Not Without Laughter
Frantz Fanon Lalita Tademy Langston Hughes
Soul on Ice Maud Martha Showing My Color
Eldridge Cleaver Gwendolyn Brooks Clarence Page
Devil in a Blue Dress Down These Mean Streets How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Walter Mosley Piri Thomas Terry McMillan
Sula Brothers and Keepers B-Boy Blues
Toni Morrison John Edgar Wideman James Earl Hardy
Passing Crusade for Justice Colored People
Nella Larson Ida B. Wells Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Lesson Before Dying What Becomes of the Broken Hearted Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine
Ernest Gaines E. Lynn Harris Bebe Moore Campbell
Salvage the Bones Paradise Black Power
Jessamyn Ward Toni Morrison Kwame Ture
Color of Water Manchild in the Promised Land New Negro
James McBride Claude Brown Alain Locke and Arnold Rampersad Annie Allen Motion of Light in Water
Gwendolyn Brooks Samuel L. Delaney One Way to Heaven
Claude McKay Clotel, or The President’s Daughter Let Me Live
William Wells Brown Angelo Herndon
Our Nig: Sketches From the Life of a My American Journey BONUS TITLES!
Free Black Colin Powell New Jim Crow Harriet Wilson Michelle Alexander No Higher Honor
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Bondswoman’s Narrative Condolezza Rice Hannah Crafts Rebecca Skloot Small Place
Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years As a Slave Jamaica Kincaid Underground Railroad
Elizabeth Keckley Colson Whitehead Black Boy
Home to Harlem Richard Wright
Claude McKay Song of Solomon Living is Easy Toni Morrison
Dorothy West Holler If You Hear Me Twelve Tribes of Hattie Michael Eric Dyson
Ayana Mathis Man in the Middle Dust Tracks on a Road John Amagechi
Zora Neale Hurston Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie