📚 African Americans

27 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with african americans on their catalogue record, first published between 1853 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 27 works carrying the subject african americans in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 75,511 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Twelve years a slave	Solomon Northup	1853	1,029
Up from Slavery	Booker T. Washington	1900	430
The mis-education of the Negro	Carter Godwin Woodson	1933	101
A Raisin in the Sun	Lorraine Hansberry	1958	80
Autobiografía Malcolm X	Alex Haley	1965	70
Black reconstruction in America 1860-1880	W. E. B. Du Bois	1935	43
Becoming	Michelle Obama	2018	42
Soul on ice	Eldridge Cleaver	1863	39
Notes of a Native Son	James Baldwin	1955	36
Assata	Assata Shakur	1987	27
The African-American odyssey	Darlene Clark Hine	2000	27
The heart of a woman	Maya Angelou	1981	24
Manchild in the promised land	Claude Brown	1937	21
Between the World and Me	Ta-Nehisi Coates	2015	19
Nigger	Dick Gregory	1965	18
African Americans	Darlene Clark Hine	2003	16
The Warmth of Other Suns	Isabel Wilkerson	2010	13
Strength to love	Martin Luther King Jr.	1963	10
Amos Fortune, free man	Elizabeth Yates	1950	9
Gather together in my name	Maya Angelou	1974	8
All God's children	Fox Butterfield	1995	8
A Piece of Cake	Cupcake Brown	2005	8
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature	Henry Louis Gates, Jr.	2014	6
Creating Black Americans	Nell Irvin Painter	2005	5
The Rose That Grew From Concrete	Tupac Shakur	1999	3
Think and grow rich	Dennis Paul Kimbro	1991	2
From niggas to gods	Akil.	1993	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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