Entertaining Books about African American History

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Beloved
Toni Morrison

Similar Novels 88%

The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead

Similar Novels 84%

The Color Purple
Alice Walker

Similar Novels 92%

Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison

Similar Novels 88%

Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison

Similar Novels 88%

Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi

Similar Novels 92%

Kindred
Octavia E. Butler

Similar Novels 92%

The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison

Similar Novels 90%

Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley

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Native Son
Richard Wright

Similar Novels 80%

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander

Similar Novels 90%

Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis

Similar Novels 92%

Black Boy
Richard Wright

Similar Novels 92%

A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines

Similar Novels 80%

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot

Similar Novels 90%

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor

Similar Novels 86%

The Help
Kathryn Stockett

Similar Novels 90%

Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Similar Novels 88%

Sula
Toni Morrison

Similar Novels 78%

One Crazy Summer
Rita Williams-Garcia

Similar Novels 92%

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