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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 761,332 ratings
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Beloved
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3.98 avg rating — 499,900 ratings
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Kindred
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4.31 avg rating — 281,560 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 — 588,791 ratings
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.75 avg rating — 418,477 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.99 avg rating — 392,863 ratings
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 1,025,291 ratings
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Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street
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4.20 avg rating — 405 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
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4.13 avg rating — 309,805 ratings
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Push
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3.88 avg rating — 59,754 ratings
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Becoming
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4.43 avg rating — 1,217,150 ratings
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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
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4.19 avg rating — 277,414 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.13 avg rating — 136,911 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 294,891 ratings
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Just Mercy
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4.62 avg rating — 266,493 ratings
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Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 204,132 ratings
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Song of Solomon
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4.16 avg rating — 130,858 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 125,779 ratings
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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4.34 avg rating — 187,196 ratings
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
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3.90 avg rating — 130,888 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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4.45 avg rating — 165,548 ratings
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Sula
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4.06 avg rating — 128,577 ratings
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Between the World and Me
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4.40 avg rating — 371,124 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 — 34,786 ratings
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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4.06 avg rating — 84,446 ratings
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Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 30,701 ratings
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The Book of Negroes
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4.47 avg rating — 92,220 ratings
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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4.49 avg rating — 822,713 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
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4.55 avg rating — 125,337 ratings
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Homegoing
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4.47 avg rating — 413,882 ratings
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Native Son
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4.04 avg rating — 105,760 ratings
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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3.94 avg rating — 231,993 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,086 ratings
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
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3.93 avg rating — 11,488 ratings
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Up from Slavery
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4.11 avg rating — 36,509 ratings
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Binti (Binti, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 81,558 ratings
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Big Freedia: God Save the Queen Diva!
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4.13 avg rating — 419 ratings
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Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)
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3.87 avg rating — 29,523 ratings
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On the Come Up
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4.26 avg rating — 101,165 ratings
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A Lesson Before Dying
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3.99 avg rating — 64,722 ratings
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Another Country
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4.30 avg rating — 35,519 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
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4.65 avg rating — 84,317 ratings
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The Underground Railroad
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4.06 avg rating — 451,283 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
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4.39 avg rating — 335,530 ratings
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The Coldest Winter Ever (The Coldest Winter Ever, #1)
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4.46 avg rating — 43,805 ratings
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The Poet X
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4.36 avg rating — 143,726 ratings
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Sounder
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3.97 avg rating — 31,605 ratings
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The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
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4.56 avg rating — 479 ratings
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How to Be an Antiracist
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4.36 avg rating — 120,162 ratings
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Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
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4.19 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
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4.34 avg rating — 27,343 ratings
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Wench
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3.74 avg rating — 18,559 ratings
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 342,691 ratings
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Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
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4.36 avg rating — 784 ratings
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black: A Memoir with an Introduction by James Baldwin
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4.42 avg rating — 2,835 ratings
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A Soldier's Play
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3.94 avg rating — 583 ratings
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Americanah
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4.31 avg rating — 418,606 ratings
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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4.09 avg rating — 10,711 ratings
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Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, Their Presence, Status and Origins
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4.32 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
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4.50 avg rating — 952 ratings
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The Learning Tree
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4.18 avg rating — 1,624 ratings
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Bloodchild and Other Stories
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4.34 avg rating — 27,895 ratings
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Project Terror
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4.24 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Take
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4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present (Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination) (Volume 1)
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Say You're One of Them
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3.55 avg rating — 16,462 ratings
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Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 86,307 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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4.48 avg rating — 119,254 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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4.16 avg rating — 195,370 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
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4.31 avg rating — 45,430 ratings
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The Boondocks: Fresh for '01...You Suckas
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4.42 avg rating — 722 ratings
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 150,177 ratings
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Brother, I'm Dying
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4.17 avg rating — 7,802 ratings
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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4.52 avg rating — 164,553 ratings
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Slay
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4.18 avg rating — 15,975 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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4.18 avg rating — 58,829 ratings
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Salvage the Bones
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3.96 avg rating — 74,635 ratings
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Fences (The Century Cycle, #6)
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3.88 avg rating — 31,052 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 118,789 ratings
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I, Tina
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4.14 avg rating — 2,832 ratings
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Jinxed
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
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4.33 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Fire Baptized (Santeria Habitat, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 1,091 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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In Search of Satisfaction
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4.46 avg rating — 3,397 ratings
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JUDGES: When The Light Lay Still
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3.32 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 253,805 ratings
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
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4.49 avg rating — 10,193 ratings
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See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era
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4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Daisy Jones
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3.72 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Blues for Mister Charlie
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4.16 avg rating — 2,384 ratings
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Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 84,165 ratings
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The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
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4.33 avg rating — 170,963 ratings
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The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
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4.28 avg rating — 200,945 ratings
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Notes of a Native Son
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4.36 avg rating — 24,997 ratings
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Slave: My True Story
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4.29 avg rating — 10,364 ratings
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Black Betty (Easy Rawlins, #4)
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4.07 avg rating — 5,766 ratings
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
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4.30 avg rating — 29,279 ratings
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Selected Poems
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4.31 avg rating — 8,456 ratings
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Clotel: or, The President's Daughter
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3.62 avg rating — 2,441 ratings
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