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A Black Literary Canon

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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Ain't I a Woman
Ain't I a Woman
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Akata Witch (Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu)
Akata Witch (Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu)
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All About Love
All About Love
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All Our Names (Dinaw Mengestu)
All Our Names (Dinaw Mengestu)
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Amalgamation Schemes (Jared Sexton)
Amalgamation Schemes (Jared Sexton)
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Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)
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Angela Davis: An Autobiography (Angela Davis)
Angela Davis: An Autobiography (Angela Davis)
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Annie Allen
Annie Allen
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Annie John
Annie John
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Another Country
Another Country
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Anthills of the Savannah
Anthills of the Savannah
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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Angela Y. Davis)
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Angela Y. Davis)
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Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe)
Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe)
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Assata: An Autobiography (Assata Shakur)
Assata: An Autobiography (Assata Shakur)
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Babel-17 (Samuel R Delany)
Babel-17 (Samuel R Delany)
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Bad Feminist (Roxane Gay)
Bad Feminist (Roxane Gay)
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A Ballad of Remembrance (Robert Hayden)
A Ballad of Remembrance (Robert Hayden)
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Beasts of No Nation (Uzodinma Iweala)
Beasts of No Nation (Uzodinma Iweala)
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The Beautiful Struggle
The Beautiful Struggle
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The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
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Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
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Being White, Being Good (Barbara Applebaum)
Being White, Being Good (Barbara Applebaum)
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Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
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Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
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Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
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Binti (Nnedi Okorafor)
Binti (Nnedi Okorafor)
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Black Boy (Richard Wright)
Black Boy (Richard Wright)
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Patricia Hill Collins)
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Patricia Hill Collins)
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BLACK MARXISM the Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Cedric J. Robinson)
BLACK MARXISM the Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Cedric J. Robinson)
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Black Music (Amiri Baraka)
Black Music (Amiri Baraka)
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The Black Presidency (Michael Eric Dyson)
The Black Presidency (Michael Eric Dyson)
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Black Revolution (Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X)
Black Revolution (Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X)
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Black Skin, White Masks (Frantz Fanon)
Black Skin, White Masks (Frantz Fanon)
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Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses (Lawrence Ross)
Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses (Lawrence Ross)
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The Blacker the Berry (Wallace Thurman)
The Blacker the Berry (Wallace Thurman)
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Blake or the Huts of America (Martin R. Delany)
Blake or the Huts of America (Martin R. Delany)
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Blues People: Negro Music in White America (Leroi Jones)
Blues People: Negro Music in White America (Leroi Jones)
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