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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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The Fire Next Time
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The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins: (Including Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood) (The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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The English Patient
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Cotton Comes to Harlem
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Monkey: The Journey to the West
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The Arabian Nights
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The Three Musketeers (Trilogie des Mousquetaires #1)
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The Color Purple
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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The Joy Luck Club
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Kindred
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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The Art of War
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The House on Mango Street
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Twelve Years a Slave
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 406,615 ratings
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Hawaii's Story
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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The Tale of Genji
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Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
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A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison
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The House of the Spirits
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4.29 avg rating — 310,825 ratings
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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A Raisin in the Sun
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Imaro (Imaro #1)
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王都炎上 (アルスラーン戦記, #1) [The Heroic Legend of Arslan, book 1]
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4.04 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcom X
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Gandhi: An Autobiography
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Alone with me: A new autobiography
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Up from Slavery
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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Soul on Ice
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3.97 avg rating — 14,682 ratings
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The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
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Midnight’s Children
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3.98 avg rating — 131,590 ratings
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Selected Poems
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Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 200,155 ratings
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Black Boy
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His Eye is on the Sparrow
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Everything and Nothing : The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy
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Clotel: or, The President's Daughter
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Ceremony
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The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley
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3.88 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Analects
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3.80 avg rating — 23,705 ratings
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The Pillow Book
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Theologus Autodidactus
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The Confessions of Lady Nijō
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The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days
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Wynema: A Child of the Forest
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Iola Leroy
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Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy, #1)
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Memoirs of a Woman Doctor
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Thousand Cranes
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 1 of 2 (chapter 1-60)
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4.29 avg rating — 2,259 ratings
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