QBR 100 Essential Black Books

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The 100 essential books by and about people of African descent that have had the most influence, consequence, and resonance on American life.

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  1. 51.
    Faith And The Good Thing
    by Charles Johnson

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  2. 52.
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    Blues People

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  3. 53.
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    W. E. B. DuBoise
    by David Levering Lewis

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  4. 55.
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    Sister Outsider

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  5. 56.
    Praisesong for the Widow (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)
    by Paule Marshall

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  6. 57.
    Waiting to Exhale
    by Terry McMillan

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  7. 58.
    Elbow Room
    by James Alan Mcpherson

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  8. 59.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  9. 60.
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    Song of Soloman
    by Toni Morrison

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  10. 61.
    Black Betty
    by Walter Mosley

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  11. 62.
    The Hero And the Blues
    by Albert Murray

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  12. 63.
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    The Women of Brewster Place

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  13. 64.
    The Famished Road
    by Ben Okri

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  14. 65.
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    God's Bits of Wood

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  15. 66.
    Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol
    by Nell Irvin Painter

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  16. 67.
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    The Street
    by Ann Petry

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  17. 68.
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    The Substance of Things Hoped For; A Memoir of African-American Faith
    by Samuel DeWitt PROCTOR

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  18. 69.
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    The Life of Langston Hughes
    by Arnold Rampersad

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  19. 70.
    mumbo jumbo
    by Ishmael Reed

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  20. 71.
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  21. 72.
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    Seize the Time
    by Bobby Seale

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  23. 75.
    The River Between (African Writers)
    by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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  24. 76.
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    Jesus and the Disinherited

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  25. 77.
    The Blacker the Berry (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)
    by Wallace Thurman

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  26. 78.
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    Cane
    by Jean Toomer

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  27. 79.

  28. 80.
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    My Soul is a Witness

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  29. 81.
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    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  30. 82.

  31. 83.
    Jubilee
    by Margaret Walker

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  32. 84.
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  33. 85.
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    Up from Slavery

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  34. 86.
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    Conversations With God

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  35. 87.
    Race Matters
    by Cornel West

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  36. 88.
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    Brothers and Keepers

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  37. 89.
    Damballah (Homewood Trilogy)
    by John Edgar Wideman

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  38. 90.
    The Man Who Cried I Am (Signet Books)
    by John A. Williams

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  39. 91.
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    Fences
    by August Wilson

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  40. 93.
    The Mis-Education of The Negro
    by Carter G. Woodson

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  41. 94.
    Black Boy
    by Richard Wright

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  42. 95.
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    Native Son (P.S.)
    by Richard A. Wright

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  43. 96.
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    Autobiography of Malcom X

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