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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 747,977 ratings
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Kindred
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4.31 avg rating — 267,803 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 486,599 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 — 577,424 ratings
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 409,816 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.99 avg rating — 383,887 ratings
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 1,003,244 ratings
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Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street
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4.19 avg rating — 396 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
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4.13 avg rating — 297,220 ratings
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Push
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3.88 avg rating — 58,810 ratings
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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 256,663 ratings
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Becoming
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4.44 avg rating — 1,184,991 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.13 avg rating — 134,127 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 289,484 ratings
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Just Mercy
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4.62 avg rating — 259,526 ratings
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Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 201,110 ratings
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Song of Solomon
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4.16 avg rating — 126,460 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 124,473 ratings
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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4.34 avg rating — 181,526 ratings
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
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3.90 avg rating — 129,738 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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4.45 avg rating — 164,474 ratings
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Sula
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4.05 avg rating — 121,739 ratings
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Between the World and Me
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4.40 avg rating — 363,695 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 — 34,590 ratings
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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4.05 avg rating — 80,746 ratings
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Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 29,978 ratings
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The Book of Negroes
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4.47 avg rating — 91,120 ratings
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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4.49 avg rating — 797,095 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
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4.55 avg rating — 119,209 ratings
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Homegoing
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4.47 avg rating — 398,324 ratings
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Native Son
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4.04 avg rating — 104,309 ratings
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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3.94 avg rating — 230,671 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,077 ratings
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
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3.93 avg rating — 11,239 ratings
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Up from Slavery
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4.11 avg rating — 35,968 ratings
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Binti (Binti, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 80,001 ratings
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Big Freedia: God Save the Queen Diva!
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4.11 avg rating — 411 ratings
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Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)
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3.86 avg rating — 28,916 ratings
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On the Come Up
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4.26 avg rating — 100,431 ratings
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A Lesson Before Dying
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3.99 avg rating — 63,784 ratings
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Another Country
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4.30 avg rating — 33,864 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 — 79,670 ratings
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The Underground Railroad
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4.06 avg rating — 441,830 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
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4.39 avg rating — 327,182 ratings
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The Coldest Winter Ever (The Coldest Winter Ever, #1)
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4.46 avg rating — 42,809 ratings
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The Poet X
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4.37 avg rating — 141,067 ratings
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Sounder
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3.97 avg rating — 31,370 ratings
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The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
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4.56 avg rating — 459 ratings
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Bloodchild and Other Stories
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4.34 avg rating — 26,914 ratings
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How to Be an Antiracist
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4.36 avg rating — 119,078 ratings
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Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
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4.15 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
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4.34 avg rating — 27,045 ratings
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Wench
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3.73 avg rating — 18,369 ratings
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 329,034 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 — 777 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 — 2,821 ratings
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A Soldier's Play
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3.93 avg rating — 573 ratings
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Americanah
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4.31 avg rating — 409,575 ratings
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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4.10 avg rating — 10,623 ratings
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Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, Their Presence, Status and Origins
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4.34 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
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4.50 avg rating — 934 ratings
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The Learning Tree
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4.17 avg rating — 1,615 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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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Say You're One of Them
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3.55 avg rating — 16,359 ratings
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Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 84,976 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 — 115,876 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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4.16 avg rating — 193,654 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
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4.31 avg rating — 44,709 ratings
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The Boondocks: Fresh for '01...You Suckas
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4.42 avg rating — 718 ratings
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 147,981 ratings
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Brother, I'm Dying
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4.16 avg rating — 7,689 ratings
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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4.52 avg rating — 159,785 ratings
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Slay
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4.18 avg rating — 15,858 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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4.17 avg rating — 57,782 ratings
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Salvage the Bones
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3.96 avg rating — 72,930 ratings
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Fences (The Century Cycle, #6)
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3.88 avg rating — 30,132 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 116,639 ratings
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I, Tina
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4.13 avg rating — 2,777 ratings
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Jinxed
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
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4.34 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Fire Baptized (Santeria Habitat, #1)
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3.77 avg rating — 1,090 ratings
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Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark
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4.02 avg rating — 102 ratings
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In Search of Satisfaction
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4.46 avg rating — 3,385 ratings
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JUDGES: When The Light Lay Still
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3.35 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 249,574 ratings
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
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4.49 avg rating — 10,071 ratings
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See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Daisy Jones
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3.73 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Blues for Mister Charlie
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4.15 avg rating — 2,295 ratings
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Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 82,056 ratings
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The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
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4.33 avg rating — 164,925 ratings
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The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
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4.29 avg rating — 193,984 ratings
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Notes of a Native Son
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4.36 avg rating — 23,978 ratings
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Slave: My True Story
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4.28 avg rating — 10,299 ratings
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Black Betty (Easy Rawlins, #4)
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4.08 avg rating — 5,674 ratings
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
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4.30 avg rating — 28,475 ratings
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Selected Poems
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4.31 avg rating — 8,372 ratings
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Clotel: or, The President's Daughter
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3.63 avg rating — 2,382 ratings
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