I just saw one of those Facebook things about who reads what books etc. Of the hundred they listed, I read 26 and then there were 7 others that I tried and found tedious, or just never got around to finishing. It was an odd list. Then I got to putting together a list of black books, horrified as I was by the set recommended by the Huffington Post. So without comment, I've read 90% of these..
Roots - Alex Haley
Black Boy - Richard Wright
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Women of Brewster Place - Gloria Naylor
For Colored Girls. - Ntzoke Shange
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Black No More - George Schuyler
Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Z. Huston
Cane - Jean Toomer
Middle Passage - Charles Johnson
The Wig - Charles Wright
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Native Son - Richard Wright
Another Country - James Baldwin
Disappearing Acts - Terry McMillan
A Gathering of Old Men - Ernest J. Gaines
Kindred - Octavia Butler
A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry
Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington
Narrative - Frederick Douglass
Narrative - Olaudah Equiano
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs
The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. DuBois
The Big Sea - Langston Hughes
If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin
The Best of Simple - Langston Hughes
Dutchman - Amiri Baraka
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson
Captain Blackman - John A. Williams
The White Boy Shuffle - Paul Beatty
Miseducation of the Negro - Carter G. Woodson
Faces at the Bottom of the Well - Derrick Bell
Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby - Stephen L. Carter
The Economics & Politics of Race - Thomas Sowell
The Content of Our Character - Shelby Steele
Breaking Bread - Cornel West
Black Macho & the Myth of the Superwoman - Michele Wallace
Notes of a Hanging Judge - Stanley Crouch
The Alchemy of Race and Rights - Kimberly Crenshaw
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual - Harold Cruse
Race Matters - Cornel West
Ethnic America - Thomas Sowell
Malcolm X Speaks - Malcolm X
Afrocentricity - Molefi Asante
The Oxherding Tale - Charles Johnson
Sula - Toni Morrison
Japanese by Spring - Ishmael Reed
Flyboy in the Buttermilk - Greg Tate
Buppies, B-Boys, Baps & Bohos - Nelson George
The Inutitionist - Colson Whitehead
The Colored Museum - George C. Wolfe
The Piano Lesson - August Wilson
Sugar Cane Alley - Euzhan Palcy
Biko - Donald Woods
Kaffir Boy - Mark Mathabene
High Cotton - Daryl Pinckney
Parallel Time - Brent Staples
Colored People - Skip Gates
Jazz - Toni Morrison
Waiting to Exhale - Terry McMillan
Bloodchild - Octavia Butler
The Neveryon Series - Sameuel R. Delany
Yes I Can - Sammy Davis Jr.
The Street - Ann Petry
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde
If He Hollers Let Him Go - Chester Himes
Devil in a Blue Dress - Walter Mosley
The Rage of a Privileged Class - Ellis Cose
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