The Sweet Flypaper of Life
1955★ 4.7
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The Taste of Country Cooking
1976★ 4.7
Can't Stop Won't Stop
2005★ 4.7
A Rage in Harlem
1957★ 4.9
Devil in a Blue Dress
1990★ 5.1
Tally's Corner
1967★ 5.2
W. E. B. Du Bois
1993★ 6.0
The Ways of White Folks
1934★ 6.1
Deep Blues
1981★ 6.1
Blues People
1963★ 6.4
The Street
1946★ 6.7
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1852★ 6.7
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
1861★ 6.8
Parting the Waters
1988★ 6.9
Native Son
1940★ 7.2
Their Eyes Were Watching God
1937★ 8.0
Invisible Man
1952★ 9.0
Beloved
1987★ 9.4