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 April, 2026
Passing
Nella Larsen
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
Audre Lorde
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
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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