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Black Klansman: A Memoir
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Who Fears Death
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Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 28,020 ratings
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The Heart of Touqar - THT - Epic - Vol 1
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Eng.Sara Ahmad (Goodreads Author)
4.91 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
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The Color Purple
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Half-Resurrection Blues (Bone Street Rumba, #1)
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Daniel José Older (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 2,590 ratings
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
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N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 324,014 ratings
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Kindred
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Shadowshaper (Shadowshaper Cypher, #1)
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Daniel José Older (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 10,828 ratings
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Time Salvager (Time Salvager, #1)
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Wesley Chu (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 5,099 ratings
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Hello, Moto
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Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads Author)
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The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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Liu Cixin (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 473,562 ratings
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Battle Angel Alita, Vol. 1
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
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Push
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3.88 avg rating — 58,546 ratings
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Monkey: The Journey to the West
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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4.36 avg rating — 53,140 ratings
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The Joy Luck Club
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 705,850 ratings
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ملحمة قلب التوقار 1
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Eng.Sara Ahmad (Goodreads Author)
4.91 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Half Of A Yellow Sun
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Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 29,651 ratings
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Q & A
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12 Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 123,895 ratings
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If Beale Street Could Talk
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The Book of Negroes
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The English Patient
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3.86 avg rating — 138,193 ratings
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Cousins
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4.21 avg rating — 821 ratings
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
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Margot Lee Shetterly (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 112,699 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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4.45 avg rating — 164,086 ratings
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Never Die Alone
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4.22 avg rating — 1,043 ratings
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The Butler: A Witness to History
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3.26 avg rating — 3,718 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X [Japanese-Language Edition].
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4.37 avg rating — 287,553 ratings
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Fences (The Century Cycle, #6)
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3.88 avg rating — 29,735 ratings
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Finding Fish: A Memoir
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4.15 avg rating — 5,160 ratings
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Cleverman #1
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Ryan Griffen (Writer)
4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 93,
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Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses #1)
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Malorie Blackman (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 81,478 ratings
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Rebirth of the Cool (Static Shock #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Baby Father
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3.36 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Open Your Eyes: Extraordinary Experiences in Faraway Places
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Jill Davis (Editor)
3.71 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Pig-heart Boy
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Malorie Blackman (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 6,846 ratings
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Ghost in the Shell (Ghost in the Shell, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 13,359 ratings
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The Pursuit of Happyness
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4.19 avg rating — 24,518 ratings
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Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom (Death Note, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 351,470 ratings
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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4.05 avg rating — 79,591 ratings
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Bio Booster Armor Guyver, Volume 1
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4.18 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Everything, Everything
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Nicola Yoon (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 672,146 ratings
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Dragon Ball, Vol. 1: The Monkey King (Dragon Ball, #1)
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4.43 avg rating — 56,289 ratings
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The Sun Is Also a Star
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Nicola Yoon (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 355,340 ratings
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Fist of the North Star 1
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4.13 avg rating — 477 ratings
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Long Walk To Freedom
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4.36 avg rating — 93,092 ratings
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Old boy, volumen 1
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3.83 avg rating — 1,911 ratings
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back
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Terry McMillan (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 10,188 ratings
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Speed Racer: The Original Manga - Volume One
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3.52 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Waiting to Exhale
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Terry McMillan (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 17,851 ratings
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Crying Freeman, Vol. 1
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3.82 avg rating — 955 ratings
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Disappearing Acts
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Terry McMillan (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 14,990 ratings
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A Day Late and a Dollar Short
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Terry McMillan (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 8,880 ratings
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The Changeling
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3.77 avg rating — 27,321 ratings
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Queen Sugar
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3.79 avg rating — 9,604 ratings
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Raising Dion #1
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Dennis Liu (Writer)
4.20 avg rating — 253 ratings
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The Underground Railroad
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Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 438,228 ratings
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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Vol. 1: The Crucible (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 13,469 ratings
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Beloved
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Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 61,731 ratings
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Beasts of No Nation
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Passing
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The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty, #1)
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Ken Liu (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 27,731 ratings
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To Sir, With Love
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The Book of Swords
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Gardner Dozois (Editor)
3.67 avg rating — 2,178 ratings
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White Teeth
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Stories of Your Life and Others
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The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
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The Lives of Tao (Tao, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 9,425 ratings
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Cybersix vol. 1
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Native Son
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Mars Ravelo's Darna (50th Anniversary Issue)
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Cotton Comes to Harlem: Chester Himes
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Zsazsa Zaturnnah sa Kalakhang Maynila (Part One) (Zsazsa Zaturnnah sa Kalakhang Maynila, #1)
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The Heat's On
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A Rage in Harlem
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Soul Food
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The Learning Tree
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The Foxes of Harrow
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Erased, Volume 1
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Stray Dogs
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Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
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The Other Black Girl
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3.35 avg rating — 82,606 ratings
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The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel
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Erasure
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Wishing on a Star (The Cheetah Girls, #1)
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The Nickel Boys
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Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
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Beasts of No Nation
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From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
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Tembi Locke (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 48,366 ratings
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Dark Water
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Ju-on Volume 1 (呪怨, #1)
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Ring (Ring, #1)
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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All You Need Is Kill
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Indian Horse
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Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1)
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