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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.13 avg rating — 135,323 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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4.45 avg rating — 164,956 ratings
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Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 83,074 ratings
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12 Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 125,193 ratings
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The Collected Poems
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4.36 avg rating — 18,230 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.99 avg rating — 387,619 ratings
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.75 avg rating — 413,725 ratings
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Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 202,362 ratings
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Native Son
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4.04 avg rating — 104,799 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
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4.31 avg rating — 45,011 ratings
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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4.49 avg rating — 810,085 ratings
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Just Above My Head
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4.44 avg rating — 3,363 ratings
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Your Corner Dark
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4.10 avg rating — 333 ratings
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Ruthless Pamela Jean
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4.53 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark
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4.03 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Monday's Not Coming
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4.26 avg rating — 81,046 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 — 1,258 ratings
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Cane
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3.82 avg rating — 11,572 ratings
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These Bones
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3.76 avg rating — 118 ratings
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A Raisin in the Sun
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3.85 avg rating — 110,987 ratings
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Passing
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3.92 avg rating — 80,862 ratings
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The Salt Fields
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4.10 avg rating — 257 ratings
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A Gathering of Old Men
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4.09 avg rating — 6,969 ratings
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Kindred
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4.31 avg rating — 272,976 ratings
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Up from Slavery
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4.11 avg rating — 36,189 ratings
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
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3.93 avg rating — 11,316 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 292,101 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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4.17 avg rating — 58,157 ratings
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Citizen: An American Lyric
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4.25 avg rating — 52,009 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 582,985 ratings
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Selected Poems of Rita Dove
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3.98 avg rating — 888 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 — 34,665 ratings
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March: The Trilogy (March, #1-3)
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4.68 avg rating — 1,679 ratings
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The Taste of Country Cooking
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4.44 avg rating — 1,512 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 — 1,700 ratings
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Between the World and Me
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4.40 avg rating — 367,409 ratings
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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4.34 avg rating — 24,099 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 117,566 ratings
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Song of Solomon
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4.16 avg rating — 127,986 ratings
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Thick: And Other Essays
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4.43 avg rating — 18,649 ratings
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The Poetry of Phyllis Wheatley
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3.68 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Sula
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A Lesson Before Dying
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3.99 avg rating — 64,191 ratings
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