The Most Well-Written Books of the 21st Century by Black Women

Discover the most well-written books of the 21st century by Black women. Explore powerful stories, groundbreaking narratives, and literary excellence in this curated list of must-read works.

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Mama Day

by Gloria Naylor

A powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense, this book "resonates with genuine excitement … a big, strong, …
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Sugar

by Bernice L. McFadden

Set in a small Arkansas town in the 1950s, this tale of loyalty and friendship between two African-American women finds Jude turning to the church …
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Sula

by Toni Morrison

Two black women grow up in a small Ohio town, mature along sharply divergent paths, confront and reconcile with each other.
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The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and …
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The Women of Brewster Place

by Gloria Naylor

The National Book Award-winning novel—and contemporary classic—that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor, now with a foreword by Tayari Jones “[A] shrewd and lyrical …
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The Men of Brewster Place

by Gloria Naylor

Naylor returns to the fictional neighborhood, this time focusing on the men behind the women who inhabited that desolate block of row houses, telling their …
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The Street

by Ann Petry

A young African American woman struggles to retain her moral integrity and guard her small son from evil in Harlem.
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The Third Life of Grange Copeland

by Alice Walker

Despondent over the futility of life in the South, black tenant farmer Grange Copeland leaves his wife and son in Georgia to head North. After …
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Douglass' Women

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

WINNER OF THE 2003 PEN OAKLAND JOSEPHINE MILES AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING WRITING AND THE BLACK CAUCUS OF THE ALA LITERARY AWARD Frederick Douglass, the great …
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Sula

by Toni Morrison

Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom—a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she …
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Love

by Toni Morrison

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a spellbinding symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of Black women …
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A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," …
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