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Kindred
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4.31 avg rating — 269,980 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.99 avg rating — 385,553 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 489,083 ratings
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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 750,543 ratings
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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
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4.19 avg rating — 260,673 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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4.45 avg rating — 164,689 ratings
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Wild Seed (Patternist, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 39,552 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
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4.31 avg rating — 44,853 ratings
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God Don't Like Ugly (God Don't Like Ugly, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,564 ratings
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Song of Solomon
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4.16 avg rating — 127,165 ratings
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Native Son
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4.04 avg rating — 104,521 ratings
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Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 201,703 ratings
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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4.05 avg rating — 81,352 ratings
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Sleeping with Strangers (Gideon, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 6,363 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.13 avg rating — 134,642 ratings
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Sister, Sister
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4.21 avg rating — 8,416 ratings
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Jubilee
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4.37 avg rating — 6,971 ratings
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Another Country
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4.30 avg rating — 34,205 ratings
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Fledgling
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3.79 avg rating — 39,250 ratings
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The Women of Brewster Place
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4.20 avg rating — 21,684 ratings
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Black Boy
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4.09 avg rating — 55,872 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,075 ratings
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
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4.18 avg rating — 14,191 ratings
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The Ways of White Folks
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4.46 avg rating — 5,517 ratings
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Sula
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4.05 avg rating — 122,918 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
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4.55 avg rating — 120,420 ratings
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The Wedding
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3.96 avg rating — 6,593 ratings
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Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 30,099 ratings
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The Upper Room
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4.24 avg rating — 4,139 ratings
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The Salt Eaters
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3.85 avg rating — 1,639 ratings
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Brothers and Sisters
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4.15 avg rating — 4,416 ratings
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Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
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4.32 avg rating — 83,709 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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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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Drive Me Crazy
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4.07 avg rating — 2,905 ratings
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Black No More
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,732 ratings
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Mind of My Mind (Patternist, #2)
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4.19 avg rating — 15,655 ratings
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Home to Harlem
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3.63 avg rating — 1,699 ratings
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Minion (Vampire Huntress Legend, #1)
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3.50 avg rating — 6,646 ratings
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The Hunted (Vampire Huntress Legend, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 3,148 ratings
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What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (Idlewild, #1)
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3.75 avg rating — 21,530 ratings
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Push
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3.88 avg rating — 58,994 ratings
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Clay's Ark (Patternist, #3)
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3.84 avg rating — 12,185 ratings
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Seed to Harvest (Patternist, #1-4)
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4.39 avg rating — 6,655 ratings
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Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 63,251 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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JUDGES: When The Light Lay Still
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3.35 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Patternmaster (Patternist, #4)
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4.03 avg rating — 10,961 ratings
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Uncle Tom's Children
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4.13 avg rating — 3,402 ratings
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The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
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4.68 avg rating — 694 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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4.17 avg rating — 57,955 ratings
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The Awakening (Vampire Huntress Legend, #2)
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4.03 avg rating — 3,708 ratings
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The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Simple's Uncle Sam
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4.35 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Baby of the Family
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4.15 avg rating — 906 ratings
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A Little Yellow Dog (Easy Rawlins, #5)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,623 ratings
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My Bondage and My Freedom
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4.38 avg rating — 12,278 ratings
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Survivor (Patternist, #4)
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3.79 avg rating — 1,411 ratings
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Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3)
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4.37 avg rating — 21,929 ratings
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Quicksand
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3.72 avg rating — 8,682 ratings
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Gorilla, My Love
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4.11 avg rating — 2,353 ratings
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12 Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 124,778 ratings
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Miss Ophelia
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4.02 avg rating — 161 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 — 579,716 ratings
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers
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4.32 avg rating — 720 ratings
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Cane
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3.82 avg rating — 11,552 ratings
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Passing
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3.92 avg rating — 80,103 ratings
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The Known World
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3.84 avg rating — 45,061 ratings
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Not Without Laughter
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4.23 avg rating — 3,778 ratings
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1959
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3.32 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Bailey's Café
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4.01 avg rating — 4,655 ratings
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Mama Day
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4.19 avg rating — 11,283 ratings
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Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
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4.18 avg rating — 4,489 ratings
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Mules and Men
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4.10 avg rating — 6,412 ratings
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Middle Passage
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3.86 avg rating — 5,482 ratings
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The Blacker the Berry...
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3.93 avg rating — 3,008 ratings
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The Marrow of Tradition
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3.92 avg rating — 3,587 ratings
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Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
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4.19 avg rating — 28,651 ratings
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Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 24,594 ratings
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Don't Tell Your Cousin
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3.53 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Narcolepsy
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Citizens Creek
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3.90 avg rating — 1,358 ratings
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BLACK CHESS: A Novel
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4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings
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A Different Drummer
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4.22 avg rating — 3,075 ratings
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
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3.90 avg rating — 129,917 ratings
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God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
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4.26 avg rating — 653 ratings
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Live at Five
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3.20 avg rating — 30 ratings
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A Burst of Light
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4.38 avg rating — 2,055 ratings
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Nowhere Is a Place
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4.14 avg rating — 2,133 ratings
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Brown Girl, Brownstones
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4.06 avg rating — 3,617 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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4.53 avg rating — 40,844 ratings
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The Ballad of Black Tom
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3.82 avg rating — 34,811 ratings
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Waiting to Exhale (Waiting to Exhale, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 18,026 ratings
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Tumbling
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4.25 avg rating — 3,629 ratings
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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
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4.10 avg rating — 4,002 ratings
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Coffee Will Make You Black
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4.08 avg rating — 5,591 ratings
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The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)
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4.14 avg rating — 39,206 ratings
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Pleasure (Nia #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 4,229 ratings
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 81,711 ratings
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Tambourines to Glory
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4.12 avg rating — 411 ratings
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