Depressing Books about African American

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29 books

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Beloved
Toni Morrison

Similar Novels 88%

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston

Similar Novels 92%

The Color Purple
Alice Walker

Similar Novels 92%

The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison

Similar Novels 90%

A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines

Similar Novels 80%

Native Son
Richard Wright

Similar Novels 80%

Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi

Similar Novels 92%

The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas

Similar Novels 96%

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou

Similar Novels 94%

The Help
Kathryn Stockett

Similar Novels 90%

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

Similar Novels 90%

Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson

Similar Novels 90%

Another Country
James Baldwin

Similar Novels 86%

To Be a Slave
Julius Lester

Similar Novels 84%

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Similar Novels 90%

The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd

Similar Novels 94%

Say Goodbye for Now
Catherine Ryan Hyde

Similar Novels 94%

American Street
Ibi Zoboi

Similar Novels 88%

Allegedly
Tiffany D. Jackson

Similar Novels 86%

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah

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