The Sweet Flypaper of Life
1955★ 4.7
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Sister Outsider
1984★ 5.3
W. E. B. Du Bois
1993★ 6.0
The Ways of White Folks
1934★ 6.1
Roll, Jordan, Roll
1974★ 6.2
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1969★ 6.2
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
1967★ 6.3
Kindred
1979★ 6.4
A Raisin in the Sun
1959★ 6.4
Up From Slavery
1901★ 6.5
Go Tell It On The Mountain
1953★ 6.6
Black Boy
1945★ 6.7
The Street
1946★ 6.7
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1852★ 6.7
Parting the Waters
1988★ 6.9
Twelve Years a Slave
1853★ 6.9
Black Reconstruction in America
1935★ 7.0
Native Son
1940★ 7.2
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
1845★ 7.4
Their Eyes Were Watching God
1937★ 8.0