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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.14 avg rating — 138,175 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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4.45 avg rating — 166,155 ratings
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Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 85,156 ratings
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12 Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 126,755 ratings
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The Collected Poems
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4.36 avg rating — 18,408 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.99 avg rating — 398,282 ratings
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.75 avg rating — 423,883 ratings
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Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 205,997 ratings
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Native Son
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The Souls of Black Folk
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4.31 avg rating — 45,817 ratings
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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4.49 avg rating — 839,386 ratings
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Just Above My Head
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4.44 avg rating — 3,542 ratings
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Your Corner Dark
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Ruthless Pamela Jean
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4.52 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark
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4.03 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Monday's Not Coming
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4.26 avg rating — 89,179 ratings
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
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4.44 avg rating — 1,292 ratings
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Cane
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3.82 avg rating — 11,781 ratings
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These Bones
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A Raisin in the Sun
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3.86 avg rating — 114,519 ratings
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Passing
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3.91 avg rating — 85,289 ratings
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The Salt Fields
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4.10 avg rating — 267 ratings
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A Gathering of Old Men
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4.09 avg rating — 7,106 ratings
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Kindred
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Up from Slavery
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4.11 avg rating — 36,780 ratings
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
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3.93 avg rating — 11,596 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 298,183 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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4.18 avg rating — 59,378 ratings
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Citizen: An American Lyric
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 595,260 ratings
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Selected Poems of Rita Dove
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3.98 avg rating — 889 ratings
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
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4.29 avg rating — 34,891 ratings
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March: The Trilogy (March, #1-3)
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4.68 avg rating — 1,745 ratings
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The Taste of Country Cooking
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4.44 avg rating — 1,543 ratings
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Imitation of Life
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3.94 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
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4.41 avg rating — 1,721 ratings
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Between the World and Me
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4.40 avg rating — 374,736 ratings
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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4.34 avg rating — 24,415 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 120,000 ratings
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Song of Solomon
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Thick: And Other Essays
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4.43 avg rating — 19,056 ratings
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The Poetry of Phyllis Wheatley
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3.69 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Sula
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A Lesson Before Dying
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3.99 avg rating — 65,635 ratings
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