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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,076,847 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 7,063,744 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
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4.55 avg rating — 128,163 ratings
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Becoming
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4.43 avg rating — 1,231,803 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
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4.31 avg rating — 45,780 ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
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4.60 avg rating — 33,014 ratings
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New Kid (New Kid #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 62,472 ratings
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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4.61 avg rating — 25,544 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
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4.59 avg rating — 36,202 ratings
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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4.52 avg rating — 166,635 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 — 86,529 ratings
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
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4.44 avg rating — 37,260 ratings
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Black Boy
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4.09 avg rating — 56,514 ratings
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
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4.30 avg rating — 29,747 ratings
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Piecing Me Together
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4.07 avg rating — 27,529 ratings
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Between the World and Me
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4.40 avg rating — 374,200 ratings
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March: Book One (March, #1)
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4.34 avg rating — 58,124 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 119,842 ratings
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
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4.35 avg rating — 65,614 ratings
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
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4.16 avg rating — 173,969 ratings
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The Secret Life of Bees
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4.10 avg rating — 1,368,452 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 288,034 ratings
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American Born Chinese
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3.88 avg rating — 102,945 ratings
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A Very Large Expanse of Sea
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4.06 avg rating — 68,315 ratings
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
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3.90 avg rating — 131,483 ratings
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Beloved
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3.99 avg rating — 508,261 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 822,957 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 — 594,322 ratings
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Pachinko
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4.34 avg rating — 673,864 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 1,349,530 ratings
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Native Son
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4.05 avg rating — 107,214 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.14 avg rating — 138,007 ratings
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The Vanishing Half
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4.12 avg rating — 877,834 ratings
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Bad Feminist
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3.92 avg rating — 120,703 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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4.38 avg rating — 7,218 ratings
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
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4.46 avg rating — 55,107 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
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4.14 avg rating — 316,341 ratings
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Yellowface
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3.72 avg rating — 1,134,710 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 297,716 ratings
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Black Like Me
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4.11 avg rating — 70,192 ratings
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Such a Fun Age
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3.77 avg rating — 586,556 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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4.53 avg rating — 39,139 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.99 avg rating — 397,485 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 126,621 ratings
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James
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4.41 avg rating — 581,564 ratings
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Just Mercy
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4.62 avg rating — 269,907 ratings
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Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
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4.03 avg rating — 10,857 ratings
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
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4.33 avg rating — 30,746 ratings
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
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4.38 avg rating — 31,270 ratings
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Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
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4.34 avg rating — 27,496 ratings
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
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4.37 avg rating — 74,140 ratings
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
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4.49 avg rating — 25,993 ratings
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
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4.01 avg rating — 71,738 ratings
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
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3.91 avg rating — 338,107 ratings
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Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
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4.26 avg rating — 3,712 ratings
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How to Be an Antiracist
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4.36 avg rating — 120,707 ratings
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
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4.51 avg rating — 20,077 ratings
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
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4.62 avg rating — 22,299 ratings
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Dread Nation (Dread Nation, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 36,532 ratings
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
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4.30 avg rating — 10,629 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,296,044 ratings
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Babel
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4.13 avg rating — 526,817 ratings
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March: Book Three (March, #3)
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4.63 avg rating — 22,020 ratings
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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4.69 avg rating — 41,801 ratings
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An American Marriage
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3.93 avg rating — 396,611 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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4.43 avg rating — 48,006 ratings
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Girl, Woman, Other
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4.25 avg rating — 271,552 ratings
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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
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4.16 avg rating — 135,939 ratings
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They Called Us Enemy
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4.42 avg rating — 56,895 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 115,970 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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4.53 avg rating — 42,305 ratings
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Ace of Spades
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4.12 avg rating — 103,593 ratings
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The Nickel Boys
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4.25 avg rating — 320,860 ratings
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Horse
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4.24 avg rating — 220,404 ratings
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The Sellout
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3.74 avg rating — 76,633 ratings
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Passing
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3.91 avg rating — 84,987 ratings
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
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4.35 avg rating — 52,155 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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4.14 avg rating — 464,817 ratings
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You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
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4.42 avg rating — 22,386 ratings
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March: Book Two (March, #2)
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4.48 avg rating — 29,568 ratings
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The Trees
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4.06 avg rating — 65,913 ratings
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.75 avg rating — 423,020 ratings
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The Personal Librarian
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4.04 avg rating — 243,312 ratings
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White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
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4.54 avg rating — 13,390 ratings
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Brown Girl Dreaming
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4.15 avg rating — 94,537 ratings
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Black Skin, White Masks
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4.26 avg rating — 20,271 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
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3.43 avg rating — 571,256 ratings
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
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4.21 avg rating — 274,687 ratings
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The Water Dancer
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4.06 avg rating — 121,080 ratings
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On the Come Up
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4.26 avg rating — 101,544 ratings
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Heavy
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4.47 avg rating — 46,278 ratings
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Kindred
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4.31 avg rating — 289,008 ratings
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Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 84,983 ratings
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Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
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4.36 avg rating — 47,319 ratings
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Ghost Boys
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4.33 avg rating — 34,107 ratings
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Ring Shout
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3.92 avg rating — 66,097 ratings
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Homegoing
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4.47 avg rating — 422,136 ratings
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A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 832,337 ratings
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If Beale Street Could Talk
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4.26 avg rating — 87,707 ratings
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Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 205,767 ratings
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❌ Books that will be REMOVED Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution and In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History and Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America and How to Be Black and Stella by Starlight and The Dry Grass of August and Zeitoun and Love, Hate & Other Filters and All Boys Aren’t Blue and Class Act (New Kid #2) and Prairie Lotus and The Invention of Wings and Sycamore Row (Jake Brigance, #2) and You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain and Underground Airlines and Lies We Tell Ourselves and Cry, the Beloved Country and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Snow Falling on Cedars and A Lesson Before Dying and White Like Me: Reflections On Race From A Privileged Son and Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe and The Kitchen House