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Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man has already been mentioned.
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and The Arrow of God will be thought classics, I'm sure.
James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room is a maybe. His essays contributed so much to the civil rights struggle but his best thoughts aren't all together in any one piece, so he may miss out because of that.
NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names, I think yes.
Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, definitely.
Two things seem really remarkable to me: how few books I can remember loving that were published after 1960 and how few I have tried, of the suggestions that have already been made. I mean, I'm a reader. That's really almost all I do. And yet... almost none of these books have inspired any interest. Well, you know... maybe I'm just not very interesting lol
There's nothing here!