Black History Month: 10 must-read classics by African American authors

Check out some of the most celebrated books to offer insight into the broad range of the African American experience in the United States.

9. ‘The Bluest Eye,’ by Toni Morrison

Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison’s 1970 novel tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, an 11-year-old African American girl who wishes her eyes could turn blue so that she could be as happy as all the blue-eyed children in America. This magnificent novel is set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio in the early 1940s.

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