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A Black Literary Canon - Page 2

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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The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)
The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)
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Body and Soul (Alondra Nelson)
Body and Soul (Alondra Nelson)
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Bone (Yrsa Daley-Ward)
Bone (Yrsa Daley-Ward)
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The Book of Memory (Petina Gappah)
The Book of Memory (Petina Gappah)
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The Book of Night Women (Marlon James)
The Book of Night Women (Marlon James)
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The Book of Not (Tsitsi Dangarembga)
The Book of Not (Tsitsi Dangarembga)
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Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
Breath, Eyes, Memory
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A Brief History of Seven Killings (Marlon James)
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Marlon James)
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The Brother You Choose (Susie Day)
The Brother You Choose (Susie Day)
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Brother, I'm Dying (Edwidge Danticat)
Brother, I'm Dying (Edwidge Danticat)
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Brown Girl Brownstones
Brown Girl Brownstones
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Brown Girl Dreaming (Jacqueline Woodson)
Brown Girl Dreaming (Jacqueline Woodson)
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Brown Girl in the Ring (Nalo Hopkinson)
Brown Girl in the Ring (Nalo Hopkinson)
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Buck (M.K. Asante)
Buck (M.K. Asante)
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The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America (Anders Walker)
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America (Anders Walker)
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Busted in New York and Other Essays (Darryl Pinckney)
Busted in New York and Other Essays (Darryl Pinckney)
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Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust (John Henrik Clark)
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust (John Henrik Clark)
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Citizen (Claudia Rankine)
Citizen (Claudia Rankine)
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
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The Color of Law (Richard Rothstein)
The Color of Law (Richard Rothstein)
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The Color of Water
The Color of Water
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The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
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Coming of Age in Mississippi (Anne Moody)
Coming of Age in Mississippi (Anne Moody)
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The Condemnation of Blackness Race, Crime, & the Making of Modern Urban America (Khalil Gibran Muhammad)
The Condemnation of Blackness Race, Crime, & the Making of Modern Urban America (Khalil Gibran Muhammad)
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Dawn (Octavia Butler)
Dawn (Octavia Butler)
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Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Ngugi Wa Thiong'o)
Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Ngugi Wa Thiong'o)
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Delicious Foods (James Hannaham)
Delicious Foods (James Hannaham)
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Derek Walcott Collected Poems
Derek Walcott Collected Poems
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The Destruction of Black Civilization (Chancellor Williams)
The Destruction of Black Civilization (Chancellor Williams)
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Devil in a Blue Dress (Walter Mosley)
Devil in a Blue Dress (Walter Mosley)
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Dhalgren
Dhalgren
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A Different Mirror (Ronald Takaki)
A Different Mirror (Ronald Takaki)
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Discourse on Colonialism (Aime Cesaire)
Discourse on Colonialism (Aime Cesaire)
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Don't Call Us Dead: Poems (Danez Smith)
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems (Danez Smith)
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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
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Dust (Yvonne Owuor)
Dust (Yvonne Owuor)
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Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
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Dying of Whiteness (Jonathan M. Metzl)
Dying of Whiteness (Jonathan M. Metzl)
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Brittney Cooper)
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Brittney Cooper)
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