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24 LGBT+ Books by Black Authors

I’m seeing a lot of the same books on my dash, so I spent a few hours researching some lesser-known books. These books fall across a variety of genres and age group.

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To all my black followers and friends, stay safe.

Also, I would like to add that black lives have always mattered, will always matter.

It’s awful that we even have to say that because it should be a given. However, we need to say it loud and clear for the racists.

We cannot be silent.

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Classic Black Literature

I’m an avid fan of classic literature, but I feel like in the world of academia, people are very euro/white-centric and forget many amazing black authors of classic books, so here’s a small list!

“Beloved” by Toni Morrison

“Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison

“Native Son” by Richard Wright

“Go Tell it on the Mountain” by James Baldwin

“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker

“Not Without Laughter” by Langston Hughes

“Cane” by Jean Toomer

“Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston

“Sister Outsider” by Audre Lorde

“The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” by James Weldon Johnson

“Through the Ivory Gate” by Rita Dove

“A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry

“Passing” by Nella Larsen

“Amiable with Big Teeth” by Claude McKay

“Imperium in Imperio” by Sutton Griggs

“The Street” by Ann Petry

“The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas

“Narrative of Sojourner Truth” by Sojourner Truth

“The Curse of Caste” by Julia C. Collins

“Jazz” by Toni Morrison

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2.27.20

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God why is reading outside such an ethereal experience. Like there is just something about feeling the suns warmth enveloping you and having the pages falling between your fingers and just looking up every often to see a bird filling your ears with its song that makes me feel like this is what i’m meant to do with my life.