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A Black Literary Canon - Page 3

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 Emerging Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois: Essays and Editorials From "The Crisis (W.E.B. Du Bois)
The Emerging Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois: Essays and Editorials From "The Crisis (W.E.B. Du Bois)
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Erasure (Percival Everett)
Erasure (Percival Everett)
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Everyday Is for the Thief (Teju Cole)
Everyday Is for the Thief (Teju Cole)
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Everyday Use (Alice Walker)
Everyday Use (Alice Walker)
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Evicted (Matthew Desmond)
Evicted (Matthew Desmond)
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The Famished Road
The Famished Road
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Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century (Dorothy Roberts)
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century (Dorothy Roberts)
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Feminist Theory From Margin to Centre
Feminist Theory From Margin to Centre
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The Fifth Season (N. K. Jemisin)
The Fifth Season (N. K. Jemisin)
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The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin)
The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin)
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Not Enuf (Ntozake Shange)
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Not Enuf (Ntozake Shange)
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Foreign Gods, Inc.
Foreign Gods, Inc.
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Freedom Dreams (Robin D.G. Kelley)
Freedom Dreams (Robin D.G. Kelley)
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle (Angela Davis)
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle (Angela Davis)
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From Babylon to Timbuktu (Rudolph Windsor)
From Babylon to Timbuktu (Rudolph Windsor)
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Ghana Must Go
Ghana Must Go
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Ghost (Jason Reynolds)
Ghost (Jason Reynolds)
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Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
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Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
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The Good Lord Bird
The Good Lord Bird
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Graceland (Chris Abani)
Graceland (Chris Abani)
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The Hairdresser of Harare (Zimbabwe)
The Hairdresser of Harare (Zimbabwe)
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Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
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Happiness, Like Water (Chinelo Okparanta)
Happiness, Like Water (Chinelo Okparanta)
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The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
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Heart-Shape in the Dust (Robert Hayden)
Heart-Shape in the Dust (Robert Hayden)
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Heavy (Kiese Laymon)
Heavy (Kiese Laymon)
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Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)
Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)
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Hood Feminism (Mikki Kendall)
Hood Feminism (Mikki Kendall)
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The House of Hunger (Dambudzo Marechera)
The House of Hunger (Dambudzo Marechera)
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Houseboy (Ferdinand Oyono)
Houseboy (Ferdinand Oyono)
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How It Feels to Be Colored Me (Zora Neale Hurston)
How It Feels to Be Colored Me (Zora Neale Hurston)
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How to Be an Anti-Racist (Ibram X. Kendi)
How to Be an Anti-Racist (Ibram X. Kendi)
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How to Love a Jamaican (Alexia Arthurs)
How to Love a Jamaican (Alexia Arthurs)
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (Kiese Laymon)
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (Kiese Laymon)
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How We Fight for Our Lives (Saeed Jones)
How We Fight for Our Lives (Saeed Jones)
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How We Fight White Supremacy (Akiba Solomon & Kenrya Rankin)
How We Fight White Supremacy (Akiba Solomon & Kenrya Rankin)
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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Edit: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor:)
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Edit: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor:)
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (NK Jemisin)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (NK Jemisin)
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