Lists of Bests: QBR 100 Essential Black Books http://www.listsofbests.com/list/60834 The 100 essential books by and about people of African descent that have had the most influence, consequence, and resonance on American life. Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:21:07 GMT en-us 0 50 96 50 0 Things Fall Apart http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002919 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div> Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America--An Anthology http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/357457 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/357457"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345383176.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div> The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself (An African American Heritage Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3570113 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Olaudah Equiano</div> I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453668 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453668"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RxD7zvDNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maya Angelou</div> Two Thousand Seasons http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1639607 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayi Kwei Armah</div> Go Tell It On The Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3539238 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> The Fire Next Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453669 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> Blessed Are the Peacemakers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453670 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bass, S. Johnathan</div> Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4446166 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4446166"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sKRsZ474L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lerone Bennett</div> The Souls of Black Folk (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Hardcover) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1385346 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. E. B. Du Bois</div> The Chaneysville Incident http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060916818.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Bradley</div> Annie Allen http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1299687 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gwendolyn Brooks</div> Maud Martha http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453671 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gwendolyn Brooks</div> Manchild in the Promise Land-Claude Brown http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2770949 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Clotel, Or, the President's Daughter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453672 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Spirits of the Passage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453673 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Daughters of Africa - An International Anthology of Words and Writings By Women of African Descent From the Ancient Egyptian to the Present http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453674 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453674"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516-rpJxrLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Kindred http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453675 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Your Blues Ain't Like Mine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453676 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Black Power : The Politics of Liberation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50624 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50624"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679743138.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles V. Hamilton</div> Sally Hemings: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5407312 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Chase-Riboud</div> The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/674776 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/674776"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0822313871.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056497240_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Waddell Chesnutt</div> Soul on Ice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10115 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10115"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/038533379X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eldridge Cleaver</div> A Black Theology of Liberation (Ethics and Society) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/928332 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/928332"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0883446855.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056504568_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James H. Cone</div> Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1793356 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stanley Crouch</div> The Crisis of the Negro Intellctual http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453678 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Krik? Krak! http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453679 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Miles http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453680 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Destruction of Black Civilization http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453681 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Narrative Of The Life & Times Of Frederick Douglass http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/430119 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/430119"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1930097115.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056538674_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Douglass</div> Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/314461 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/314461"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226162346.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1064555186_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by St. Clair Drake</div> Lyrics Of Lowly Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453682 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453682"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MapcvEBvL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Laurence Dunbar</div> Guide My Feet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453683 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2178333 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> Kehinde http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978626 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978626"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1577664191.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Buchi Emecheta</div> The Wretched of the Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2224991 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frantz Fanon</div> Black Skin, White Masks http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453685 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Black Bourgeoisie http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453686 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5400545 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5400545"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51w0YfWdo2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest J. Gaines</div> A Lesson Before Dying (Five Star) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/244000 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/244000"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/185242723X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest J. Gaines</div> The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans (The New Marcus Garvey Library, No. 9) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/874340 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/874340"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0912469242.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcus Garvey</div> The Spook Who Sat By the Door http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39812 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39812"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1930097271.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sam Greenlee</div> Roots: The Saga of an American Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2984342 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alex Haley</div> A Raisin in the Sun (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23838 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23838"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679755330.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lorraine Hansberry</div> If He Hollers Let Him Go http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453688 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Ways of White Folks http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453689 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Their Eyes Were Watching God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061120065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zora Neale Hurston</div> Soledad Brother http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453691 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Black Jocobins, The - Toussaint L'overture and the San Domingo Revolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453692 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C. L. R. James</div> Stolen Legacy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453693 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div>