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Literary & Classics17
African American13
Classics11
Fiction11
Poetry11
History, Politics & Society6
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Adult5
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Places & World Literature4

Historical Fiction3

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Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
Bebe Moore Campbell
4.23 average rating, · 7.5k ratings
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The Third Life Of Grange Copeland
Alice Walker
4.14 average rating, · 4.7k ratings
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Linden Hills
Gloria Naylor
4.04 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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Black Girl Lost
Donald Goines
4.31 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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She
Saul Williams
4.21 average rating, · 2k ratings
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I Shall Not Be Moved
Maya Angelou
4.25 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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Ugly Ways: The Bestselling Darkly Humorous Family Drama of Grief, Death, and the Afterlife
Tina McElroy Ansa
4.08 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
Langston Hughes
4.33 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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Head Off & Split
Nikky Finney
4.13 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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On The Pulse Of Morning
Maya Angelou
4.42 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Bicycles: Love Poems
Nikki Giovanni
4.07 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
Nikki Giovanni
4.41 average rating, · 1k ratings
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The Book of Light
Lucille Clifton
4.34 average rating, · 934 ratings
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The Narrows
Ann Petry
4.15 average rating, · 767 ratings
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Haiku: This Other World
Richard Wright
4.16 average rating, · 669 ratings
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Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New
Audre Lorde
4.30 average rating, · 565 ratings
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How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton
4.56 average rating, · 519 ratings
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