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QBR 100 Essential Black Books

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.
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 Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
  
2. Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America--An Anthology  
3.
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 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself (An African American Heritage Book)
by Olaudah Equiano
  
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
  
5.
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 Two Thousand Seasons
by Ayi Kwei Armah
  
6.
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 Go Tell It On The Mountain
by James Baldwin
  
7.
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 The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
  
8.
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 Blessed Are the Peacemakers
by Bass, S. Johnathan
  
9. Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
by Lerone Bennett
  
10.
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 The Souls of Black Folk (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Hardcover)
by W. E. B. Du Bois
  
11. The Chaneysville Incident
by David Bradley
  
12.
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 Annie Allen
by Gwendolyn Brooks
  
13.
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 Maud Martha
by Gwendolyn Brooks
  
14.
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 Manchild in the Promise Land-Claude Brown  
15.
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 Clotel, Or, the President's Daughter  
16.
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 Spirits of the Passage  
17. Daughters of Africa - An International Anthology of Words and Writings By Women of African Descent From the Ancient Egyptian to the Present  
18.
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 Kindred  
19.
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 Your Blues Ain't Like Mine  
20. Black Power : The Politics of Liberation
by Charles V. Hamilton
  
21.
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 Sally Hemings: A Novel
by Barbara Chase-Riboud
  
22. The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales
by Charles Waddell Chesnutt
  
23. Soul on Ice
by Eldridge Cleaver
  
24. A Black Theology of Liberation (Ethics and Society)
by James H. Cone
  
25.
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 Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989
by Stanley Crouch
  
26.
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 The Crisis of the Negro Intellctual  
27.
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 Krik? Krak!  
28.
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 Miles  
29.
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 Destruction of Black Civilization  
30. Narrative Of The Life & Times Of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
  
31. Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
by St. Clair Drake
  
32. Lyrics Of Lowly Life
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
  
33.
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 Guide My Feet  
34.
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 Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
  
35. Kehinde
by Buchi Emecheta
  
36.
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 The Wretched of the Earth
by Frantz Fanon
  
37.
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 Black Skin, White Masks  
38.
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 Black Bourgeoisie  
39. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
by Ernest J. Gaines
  
40. A Lesson Before Dying (Five Star)
by Ernest J. Gaines
  
41. The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans (The New Marcus Garvey Library, No. 9)
by Marcus Garvey
  
42. The Spook Who Sat By the Door
by Sam Greenlee
  
43.
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 Roots: The Saga of an American Family
by Alex Haley
  
44. A Raisin in the Sun (Vintage)
by Lorraine Hansberry
  
45.
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 If He Hollers Let Him Go  
46.
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 The Ways of White Folks  
47. Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
  
48.
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 Soledad Brother  
49.
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 Black Jocobins, The - Toussaint L'overture and the San Domingo Revolution
by C. L. R. James
  
50.
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 Stolen Legacy  
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