Black people in literature
Featured — award winners and classics first, when available. Use “Show different books” for a new selection.
🔄 Show different books
Rereading Nadine Gordimer
Colonialism and race in Luso-Hispanic literature
Slavery and the Romantic imagination
Becoming Human
Without Hatred or Fears
A people's voice
The maroon narrative
What's a Black Critic to Do II
The militant black writer in Africa and the United States
Motherlands
America and the black body
Playing in the dark
Post-colonial literatures in English
The Origin of Others
Shakespeare and race
Black face, maligned race
The New African
Subject to others
The Black woman
History and Theatre in Africa
The negro in English romantic thought, or, a study of sympathy for the oppressed
Between Totem and Taboo
Black Presence in English Literature
Shakespeare without women
The African image
The burden of memory, the muse of forgiveness
Shakespeare jungle fever
Black writers in Latin America
The Black renaissance in Francophone African and Caribbean literatures
Black African literature in English, 1987-1991
Browse free books to read online
Book Explorer lets readers browse the free, readable part of the Open Library catalogue by familiar genres, or by the exact subject tags Open Library assigns each book. Every book has its own page with a reader where one is available, plus links to Open Library, your library, Libby and Amazon.
Fiction
- All Fiction
- Literary Fiction
- Children's Fiction
- Mystery & Detective
- Romance
- Fantasy
- Thriller & Suspense
- Historical Fiction
- Science Fiction
- Graphic Novels & Comics
- Humor
- Short Stories
- Horror
- Young Adult Fiction
- Western
Non-fiction
- All Non-fiction
- History
- Biography & Memoir
- Religion & Spirituality
- Politics & Social Sciences
- Travel
- Philosophy
- Business & Economics
- Science
- Art & Photography
- Cooking
- Self-Help
- Music
- Health & Fitness
- Sports & Recreation
- Humor
- True Crime