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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 747,280 ratings
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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4.05 avg rating — 80,567 ratings
score: 196,
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The Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 200,968 ratings
score: 189,
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Jazz (Toni Morrison Trilogy, #2)
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3.90 avg rating — 37,281 ratings
score: 184,
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The Bluest Eye
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4.13 avg rating — 296,592 ratings
score: 181,
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The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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4.37 avg rating — 6,587 ratings
score: 176,
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Midnight’s Children
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3.97 avg rating — 132,187 ratings
score: 175,
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Passing
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3.92 avg rating — 79,222 ratings
score: 161,
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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4.17 avg rating — 57,736 ratings
score: 148,
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The Dark Child
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3.71 avg rating — 2,558 ratings
score: 100,
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The Fire Next Time
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4.55 avg rating — 118,861 ratings
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.32 avg rating — 1,012,062 ratings
score: 100,
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Kindred
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4.31 avg rating — 267,138 ratings
score: 100,
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 409,334 ratings
score: 99,
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Ceremony
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3.84 avg rating — 26,324 ratings
score: 99,
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Giovanni’s Room
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4.34 avg rating — 243,544 ratings
score: 98,
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The Count of Monte Christo
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4.32 avg rating — 1,012,062 ratings
score: 98,
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Wine of the Mystic: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A Spiritual Interpretation
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4.25 avg rating — 392 ratings
score: 97,
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Another Country
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4.30 avg rating — 33,777 ratings
score: 96,
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Down These Mean Streets: A Memoir
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4.16 avg rating — 4,889 ratings
score: 96,
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Going to Meet the Man
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4.37 avg rating — 8,390 ratings
score: 95,
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If Beale Street Could Talk
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4.27 avg rating — 80,025 ratings
score: 94,
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Tales From the 1001 Nights
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4.03 avg rating — 80,988 ratings
score: 94,
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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
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4.30 avg rating — 5,077 ratings
score: 93,
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Just Above My Head
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4.44 avg rating — 3,275 ratings
score: 92,
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The Rig Veda
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3.92 avg rating — 1,727 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.99 avg rating — 383,405 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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The Tale of Genji
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3.72 avg rating — 14,640 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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Romance in Marseille
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3.60 avg rating — 1,615 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 485,880 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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Iola Leroy
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3.54 avg rating — 1,753 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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Song of Solomon
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4.16 avg rating — 126,295 ratings
score: 88,
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The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
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3.44 avg rating — 1,796 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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Love
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3.82 avg rating — 13,744 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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Cogewea, The Half Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range
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3.25 avg rating — 228 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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Tar Baby
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3.99 avg rating — 23,553 ratings
score: 85,
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1 person voted
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A Mercy
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3.76 avg rating — 32,523 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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Cane
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3.82 avg rating — 11,499 ratings
score: 82,
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1 person voted
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Native Son
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4.04 avg rating — 104,237 ratings
score: 81,
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1 person voted
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The Famished Road
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3.73 avg rating — 13,524 ratings
score: 80,
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1 person voted
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The Tale of Genji
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3.72 avg rating — 14,640 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Journey to the West (4-Volume Boxed Set)
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4.34 avg rating — 2,679 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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The Water Margin
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4.12 avg rating — 3,076 ratings
score: 75,
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1 person voted
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Dream of the Red Chamber
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,823 ratings
score: 74,
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
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3.97 avg rating — 24,474 ratings
score: 73,
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1 person voted
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Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 22,285 ratings
score: 72,
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1 person voted
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Chaka
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3.62 avg rating — 685 ratings
score: 71,
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1 person voted
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard
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3.72 avg rating — 3,738 ratings
score: 70,
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1 person voted
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
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4.52 avg rating — 5,639 ratings
score: 69,
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1 person voted
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The Sound of Waves
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3.77 avg rating — 23,598 ratings
score: 67,
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1 person voted
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Mumbo Jumbo
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3.85 avg rating — 4,898 ratings
score: 65,
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1 person voted
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The Three Musketeers
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4.10 avg rating — 348,464 ratings
score: 64,
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1 person voted
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The Black Tulip
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3.86 avg rating — 23,327 ratings
score: 63,
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1 person voted
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Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
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3.65 avg rating — 2,771 ratings
score: 62,
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1 person voted
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The Popol Vuh
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3.76 avg rating — 7,664 ratings
score: 61,
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1 person voted
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Petals of Blood
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3.89 avg rating — 2,651 ratings
score: 60,
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1 person voted
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Weep Not Child
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3.91 avg rating — 4,233 ratings
score: 59,
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1 person voted
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The River Between
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3.79 avg rating — 5,317 ratings
score: 58,
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1 person voted
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A Grain of Wheat
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3.88 avg rating — 6,740 ratings
score: 57,
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1 person voted
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The Radiance of the King
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3.85 avg rating — 792 ratings
score: 56,
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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3.74 avg rating — 14,684 ratings
score: 55,
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.13 avg rating — 133,980 ratings
score: 54,
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I Am a Cat
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3.67 avg rating — 17,676 ratings
score: 52,
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1 person voted
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Houseboy
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3.74 avg rating — 2,357 ratings
score: 51,
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1 person voted
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The Old Man and the Medal
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3.61 avg rating — 464 ratings
score: 50,
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1 person voted
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Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)
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3.86 avg rating — 28,892 ratings
score: 49,
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