Best Books by Black Authors

From Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead — essential reading by Black authors across every genre.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
The Stranger by Albert Camus
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Blindness by José Saramago
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

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