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If you loved Black Boy

Books like Black Boy

If you loved Black Boy by Richard Wright, Jerry W. Ward Jr., these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

Native Son

Richard Wright

No. 2

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

No. 3

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois, Donald B. Gibson, Monica W. Elbert

No. 4

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X, Alex Haley

No. 5

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Ntozake Shange

No. 6

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

No. 7

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

No. 8

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

No. 9

Soul on Ice

Eldridge Cleaver

No. 10

Black Like Me

John Howard Griffin

No. 11

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin, Kıvanç Güney

No. 12

Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography

Mark Mathabane

No. 13

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

No. 14

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

No. 15

Disappearing Acts

Terry McMillan

No. 16

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

No. 17

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

No. 18

Beloved

Toni Morrison

No. 19

The Women of Brewster Place

Gloria Naylor

No. 20

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs

No. 21

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

No. 22

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

No. 23

The Collected Poems

Langston Hughes

No. 24

Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

Chinua Achebe