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A Black Literary Canon

Collected from multiple lists, this list, like any attempt at creating a literary canon, is incomplete. This is only part of a larger conversation about what are the greatest, most important, influential, beautiful, poetic, and powerful works of black literature the world over.
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Ain't I a Woman (Bell Hooks)
Ain't I a Woman
1
Bell Hooks
Akata Witch (Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu)
Akata Witch
2
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
All About Love (Bell Hooks)
All About Love
3
Bell Hooks
All Our Names (Dinaw Mengestu)
All Our Names
4
Dinaw Mengestu
Amalgamation Schemes (Jared Sexton)
Amalgamation Schemes
5
Jared Sexton
Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Americanah
6
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
7
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Angela Davis: An Autobiography (Angela Davis)
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
8
Angela Davis
Annie Allen
Annie Allen
9
Annie John
Annie John
10
Another Country
Another Country
11
Anthills of the Savannah
Anthills of the Savannah
12
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Angela Y. Davis)
Are Prisons Obsolete?
13
Angela Y. Davis
Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe)
Arrow of God
14
Chinua Achebe
Assata: An Autobiography (Assata Shakur)
Assata: An Autobiography
15
Assata Shakur
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
16
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm X)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
17
Malcolm X
Babel-17 (Samuel R Delany)
Babel-17
18
Samuel R Delany
Bad Feminist (Roxane Gay)
Bad Feminist
19
Roxane Gay
A Ballad of Remembrance (Robert Hayden)
A Ballad of Remembrance
20
Robert Hayden
Beasts of No Nation (Uzodinma Iweala)
Beasts of No Nation
21
Uzodinma Iweala
The Beautiful Struggle
The Beautiful Struggle
22
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
23
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
24
Being White, Being Good (Barbara Applebaum)
Being White, Being Good
25
Barbara Applebaum
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
26
Toni Morrison
Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
27
Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
Between the World and Me
28
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Binti (Nnedi Okorafor)
Binti
29
Nnedi Okorafor
Black Boy (Richard Wright)
Black Boy
30
Richard Wright
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Patricia Hill Collins)
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
31
Patricia Hill Collins
BLACK MARXISM the Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Cedric J. Robinson)
BLACK MARXISM the Making of the Black Radical Tradition
32
Cedric J. Robinson
Black Music (Amiri Baraka)
Black Music
33
Amiri Baraka
The Black Presidency (Michael Eric Dyson)
The Black Presidency
34
Michael Eric Dyson
Black Revolution (Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X)
Black Revolution
35
Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X
Black Skin, White Masks (Frantz Fanon)
Black Skin, White Masks
36
Frantz Fanon
Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses (Lawrence Ross)
Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses
37
Lawrence Ross
The Blacker the Berry (Wallace Thurman)
The Blacker the Berry
38
Wallace Thurman
Blake or the Huts of America (Martin R. Delany)
Blake or the Huts of America
39
Martin R. Delany
Blues People: Negro Music in White America (Leroi Jones)
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
40
Leroi Jones
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