A curation of Black classic novels, poems, essays, and more from across the diaspora. Fiction and Non-Fiction. More will be added, recs welcome.
created by gray.blog
last updated January, 2026
Love Poems
Nikki Giovanni
Fences (The Century Cycle #6)
August Wilson
The Collected Poems
Langston Hughes
Everyday Use
Alice Walker
If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin
The Miseducation of the Negro
Carter G. Woodson
All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Maya Angelou
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde
Giovanni's Room
Ain't I a Woman?
Sojourner Truth
Native Son
Richard Wright
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
The Color Purple
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
James Weldon Johnson
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
The Bluest Eye
Sula
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