Absalom, Absalom!
1936★ 9.0
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Invisible Man
1952★ 9.0
To Kill a Mockingbird
1960★ 8.6
Their Eyes Were Watching God
1937★ 8.0
Disgrace
1999★ 7.7
Native Son
1940★ 7.2
Black Reconstruction in America
1935★ 7.0
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1852★ 6.7
The Known World
2003★ 6.7
The Street
1946★ 6.7
The Ways of White Folks
1934★ 6.1
W. E. B. Du Bois
1993★ 6.0
The Peculiar Institution
1956★ 5.9
The Breaks of the Game
1981★ 5.6
Devil in a Blue Dress
1990★ 5.1
Can't Stop Won't Stop
2005★ 4.7