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Suggestions for fiction and non fiction book lists for underclass students to increase stamina, rigor, and background knowledge.
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Circe
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Madeline Miller (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 1,304,280 ratings
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Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory, A Town's Search for Its Soul
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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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Dreaming in Cuban
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Great Expectations
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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Wuthering Heights
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Heart of Darkness
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In Cold Blood
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Crime and Punishment
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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Sebastian Junger (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 118,268 ratings
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The Color of Water
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James McBride (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 132,415 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,280,956 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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3.83 avg rating — 1,325,425 ratings
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My Bondage and My Freedom: The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass
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4.38 avg rating — 12,215 ratings
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East of Eden
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.65 avg rating — 194,868 ratings
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The Sun Also Rises
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Ceremony
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 406,318 ratings
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King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
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Obasan
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score: 78,
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Wise Blood
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3.82 avg rating — 36,989 ratings
score: 77,
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Brave New World
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3.99 avg rating — 2,038,280 ratings
score: 76,
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The Awakening
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3.69 avg rating — 224,208 ratings
score: 75,
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
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score: 74,
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In the Time of the Butterflies
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Julia Alvarez (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 78,214 ratings
score: 73,
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 334,043 ratings
score: 72,
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The Red Badge of Courage
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3.30 avg rating — 109,201 ratings
score: 71,
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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 742,774 ratings
score: 70,
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The Things They Carried
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4.14 avg rating — 339,956 ratings
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The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids
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Alexandra Robbins (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 3,515 ratings
score: 68,
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Profiles in Courage
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3.92 avg rating — 14,400 ratings
score: 67,
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 852,860 ratings
score: 66,
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 53,939 ratings
score: 65,
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 236,367 ratings
score: 64,
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
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3.81 avg rating — 7,611 ratings
score: 63,
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The Glass Castle
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Jeannette Walls (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 1,338,503 ratings
score: 62,
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Educated
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Tara Westover (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 1,802,736 ratings
score: 61,
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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Daniel James Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 355,990 ratings
score: 60,
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On the Road
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3.61 avg rating — 442,325 ratings
score: 59,
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The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative
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Christopher Metress (Editor)
4.31 avg rating — 49 ratings
score: 58,
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
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3.87 avg rating — 5,840 ratings
score: 57,
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
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4.23 avg rating — 66,897 ratings
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
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3.81 avg rating — 46,561 ratings
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Friday Night Lights
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4.14 avg rating — 65,622 ratings
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Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker
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3.89 avg rating — 3,036 ratings
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Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
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4.05 avg rating — 11,374 ratings
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How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
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Michael Gates Gill (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 11,337 ratings
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News of a Kidnapping
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3.91 avg rating — 15,924 ratings
score: 49,
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The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
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3.68 avg rating — 3,487 ratings
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Empire of the Summer Moon
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4.25 avg rating — 65,359 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Robert B. Cialdini (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 173,124 ratings
score: 46,
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The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit
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3.79 avg rating — 37,507 ratings
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Stumbling on Happiness
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3.82 avg rating — 63,314 ratings
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Into the Wild
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 1,175,102 ratings
score: 43,
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 556,847 ratings
score: 42,
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When Pride Still Mattered : A Life Of Vince Lombardi
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David Maraniss (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 9,110 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 222,182 ratings
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Black Like Me
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4.11 avg rating — 69,368 ratings
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Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir
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John Edgar Wideman (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 1,136 ratings
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Three Girls from Bronzeville
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
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David Sheff (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 104,120 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 — 573,371 ratings
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
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4.34 avg rating — 21,633 ratings
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The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War
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3.97 avg rating — 1,865 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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4.36 avg rating — 53,096 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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Death Be Not Proud
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Alexander Hamilton
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 793,277 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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Margot Lee Shetterly (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 112,661 ratings
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
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Stephanie Land (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 110,667 ratings
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Poverty, by America
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Matthew Desmond (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 58,399 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 209,439 ratings
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 31,952 ratings
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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 26,384 ratings
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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James Clear (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 1,226,001 ratings
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The Song of Achilles
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Madeline Miller (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,907,757 ratings
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Moneyball
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4.27 avg rating — 142,539 ratings
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The Game
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4.16 avg rating — 7,242 ratings
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What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
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Kate Fagan (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 17,102 ratings
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 119,646 ratings
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Heavy
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Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 44,090 ratings
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The Liars' Club
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3.94 avg rating — 71,438 ratings
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Fierce Attachments
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
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Jesmyn Ward (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 28,109 ratings
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All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
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Just Mercy
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
