Beloved
1987★ 9.4
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A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
1955★ 7.8
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
1845★ 7.4
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
1885★ 7.3
Black Reconstruction in America
1935★ 7.0
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
1941★ 7.0
Parting the Waters
1988★ 6.9
All The King's Men
1946★ 6.8
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1852★ 6.7
The Burden of Southern History
1960★ 6.7
A Stillness at Appomattox
1953★ 6.5
Up From Slavery
1901★ 6.5
Blues People
1963★ 6.4
Roll, Jordan, Roll
1974★ 6.2
The Peculiar Institution
1956★ 5.9
This Republic of Suffering
2008★ 5.3
Cash
1997★ 4.6