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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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Sula
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The Color Purple
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The Bluest Eye
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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Giovanni’s Room
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Invisible Man
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Native Son
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Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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Letter to My Daughter
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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No Longer at Ease
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Arrow of God
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3.79 avg rating — 9,063 ratings
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The Quiet Violence of Dreams
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The Joy Luck Club
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
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God's Bits of Wood
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
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The Money Order; With, White Genesis
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So Long a Letter
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Scarlet Song
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Season of Migration to the North
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Mathématiques congolaises
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3.71 avg rating — 242 ratings
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The Slave Girl
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3.85 avg rating — 604 ratings
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Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 29,656 ratings
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Second-Class Citizen
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4.10 avg rating — 4,697 ratings
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The Women of Brewster Place
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The Famished Road
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Songs of Enchantment
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Infinite Riches
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3.83 avg rating — 355 ratings
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The Heart of Redness
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Land Of My Fathers
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Vamba Sherif (Goodreads Author)
3.37 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Three Strong Women
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The Stone Virgins
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3.77 avg rating — 355 ratings
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Hot Milk
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3.49 avg rating — 41,556 ratings
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Abyssinian Chronicles
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Season of Anomy
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3.68 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Temple of My Familiar
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Meridian
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The Third Life of Grange Copeland
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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
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Paradise
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3.86 avg rating — 28,737 ratings
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Jazz
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Quicksand
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Tales of Burning Love
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Love Medicine
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The Beet Queen
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3.87 avg rating — 14,526 ratings
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Tracks
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3.94 avg rating — 13,753 ratings
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The Bingo Palace
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3.87 avg rating — 4,925 ratings
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The Known World
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3.84 avg rating — 44,670 ratings
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Green Grass, Running Water
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4.02 avg rating — 8,368 ratings
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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3.66 avg rating — 139,334 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
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The Vanishing Half
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Brit Bennett (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 841,265 ratings
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Once Were Warriors
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What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (Once were warriors trilogy, #2)
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3.72 avg rating — 486 ratings
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Jake's Long Shadow
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Dreamboat Dad
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3.89 avg rating — 56 ratings
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One Night Out Stealing
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3.56 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Baby No-Eyes
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3.87 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Dogside Story
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Tu
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3.96 avg rating — 545 ratings
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Cousins
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Potiki
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3.88 avg rating — 2,426 ratings
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Mutuwhenua
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3.93 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Wildcat Screaming
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3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Wildcat Falling
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Colin Johnson (Birth name)
3.35 avg rating — 397 ratings
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Master of the Ghost Dreaming: A Novel
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Benang: From the Heart
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True Country
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That Deadman Dance
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Plains of Promise
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Carpentaria
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My Place
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Don't Take Your Love to Town
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Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
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Under the Wintamarra Tree
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Paperbark: A Collection of Black Australian Writings
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Jack Davis (editor)
4.15 avg rating — 34 ratings
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If everyone cared: Autobiography of Margaret Tucker
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Kitchen
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The Woman in the Dunes
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Crystal Boys
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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Red Sorghum
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Frog
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The Bird
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The Remains of the Day
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4.14 avg rating — 350,135 ratings
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Beauty and Sadness
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The Makioka Sisters
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Mother's Stake I (Modern Korean Literature, #4)
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The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
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Saisons sauvages
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The Disconnected
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The Flea Palace
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Elif Shafak (Goodreads Author)
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Shadowless
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