Best products from r/BlackReaders

We found 20 comments on r/BlackReaders discussing the most recommended products. We ran sentiment analysis on each of these comments to determine how redditors feel about different products. We found 50 products and ranked them based on the amount of positive reactions they received. Here are the top 20.

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u/Jetamors · 3 pointsr/BlackReaders

Finished up Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas by Sylviane A. Diouf; I have a few quibbles with it, but overall I thought it was a very good book. (And FYI, if you're in the US and have an ereader or a smartphone, this book is only 99c on the Kindle store! At that price, I would definitely recommend it to anyone with the slightest interest in the topic.

Currently reading Opposite of Always by Justin Reynolds, which is YA time travel romance (black protag and love interest), and... yup, this is exactly the YA book I wanted when I was a teenager myself. Reading it from my current perspective, I don't love it the way I would have when I was 16, but it's super charming so far, and whatever the outcome, I have a feeling I'll be crying at the end :D

u/ADotJDotOB · 2 pointsr/BlackReaders

Almost finished The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell. It's about to be the fastest 600 page novel I've read lol. It's alot of moving parts but when the stories started to intersect I couldn't put the book down.

plot from the link:

"The novel follows three very different founding families across generations, from 19th-century Europe to the banks of the near-future Zambezi river. The first matriarch we meet is Silliba, illegitimate daughter of an Italian noble and his housecleaner, born covered in hair that regrows as fast as it is cut. Next is Agnes, a rising tennis star - until she loses her sight. She secretly flees her wealthy, British parents to return to the home of her Rhodesian lover...who notices small eyes growing on her that recede on closer inspection. We then meet Matha, a young African woman coming of age as Zambia becomes a nation in the 1960s. These intertwining stories are as steeped in a solemn strain of magical realism as they are in actual history: the plot’s fantastical elements reveal the cruelties and absurdities of real-world colonialism."

Read a great Sci-fi story collection, Exhalation by Ted Chiang. I appreciated the fact that each story read like it was written by a different author. My favorite was the The Merchant and the Alchemist:

"The story follows Fuwaad ibn Abbas, a fabric merchant in the ancient city of Baghdad. It begins when he is searching for a gift to give a business associate and happens to discover a new shop in the marketplace. The shop owner, who makes and sells a variety of very interesting items, invites Fuwaad into the back workshop to see a mysterious black stone arch which serves as a gateway into the future, which the shop owner has made by the use of alchemy. Fuwaad is intrigued, and the shop owner tells him three stories of others who have traveled through the gate to meet and have conversation with their future selves. When Fuwaad learns that the shop keeper has another gate in Cairo that will allow people to travel even into the past, he makes the journey there to try to rectify a mistake he made twenty years earlier."

u/Unseenmonument · 3 pointsr/BlackReaders

Hi all,

If you've ever been told, "the world doesn't revolve around you" then you're already familiar with the inspiration for my latest novel because, for Arthur Lee Matters, it does.

It's set on a world very similar to ours, but about a century or so more advanced.

I really enjoyed writing this story and hope you just as much fun reading it!

Feel free to ask any questions, I'll answer them as best I can without spoiling anything.

Summary:

Samson Timothy Dillard just wants to live a normal life and to make his own choices, yet it's becoming increasingly obvious that the story of his life might not be his to tell.

During the scientific golden age of a world no longer burdened by war, famine, or scarcity; where all people are blessed with the freedom to pursue their heart's desires... their only real problem may be God himself.

Kindle Link:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QW46CP4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_B1QNDbWS3EMTD

Paperback Link:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1537562878/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_D2QNDb64JHFGK

u/niff20 · 3 pointsr/BlackReaders

Survival Math, The Color of Law, Killing The Black Body, and Stamped From The Beginning are all really good ones as well. Not sure which avenue of "black books" you're trying to go down specifically so I just threw out some general titles. Let me know if you're looking for something unlike what I listed and I'd be happy to give more!