100 Must Read African American Books Checklist How Many Have YOU Read? From
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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 Bondswoman’s Narrative Condolezza Rice Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 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 .