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The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

ByHannah Tinti

2017 • 39 Readers • 399 pages • 3.7

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The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi

The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi

ByArthur Japin

2 Readers

Between the World and Me

Between the World and Me

ByTa-Nehisi Coates

2015 • 523 Readers • 166 pages • 4.6

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

ByAudre Lorde

1984 • 131 Readers • 208 pages • 4.5

The Rosie Project

#1 of 3 in Don Tillman

The Rosie Project

ByGraeme Simsion

2013 • 312 Readers • 295 pages • 3.9

The Well of Ascension

#2 of 7 in The Mistborn Saga

The Well of Ascension

ByBrandon Sanderson

2007 • 1,378 Readers • 815 pages • 4.3

Dreaming in Cuban

Dreaming in Cuban

ByCristina García

1992 • 17 Readers • 274 pages • 3.5

Policing The Planet: Why The Policing Crisis Led To Black Lives Matter

Policing The Planet: Why The Policing Crisis Led To Black Lives Matter

ByJordan T. Camp(Editor),Christina Heatherton(Editor)

2016 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

Olio

ByTyehimba Jess

2016 • 7 Readers • 256 pages

Against Everything: Essays

Against Everything: Essays

ByMark Greif

2016 • 16 Readers • 320 pages

Infinite Jest

ByDavid Foster Wallace

1996 • 550 Readers • 1,079 pages • 4.2

My Absolute Darling

My Absolute Darling

ByGabriel Tallent

2017 • 70 Readers • 432 pages • 4.1

Little Monsters

Little Monsters

ByKara Thomas

2017 • 41 Readers • 338 pages • 3.3

New Boy

Hogarth Shakespeare project

ByTracy Chevalier

2017 • 20 Readers • 188 pages • 4.1

Your Mother was a Panther

Your Mother was a Panther

ByTara Ngozi Mixon

1 Reader • 240 pages

Dear Martin

#1 of 2 in Dear Martin

ByNic Stone

2017 • 127 Readers • 224 pages • 4.1

The friends

ByRosa Guy

1973 • 3 Readers • 192 pages • 4

The Crunk Feminist Collection

The Crunk Feminist Collection

ByBrittney Cooper(Editor),Susana M. Morris(Editor)

2017 • 3 Readers • 322 pages

Lincoln in the Bardo

Lincoln in the Bardo

ByGeorge Saunders

2017 • 319 Readers • 3.9

Augustown

ByKei Miller

2016 • 21 Readers • 368 pages • 4.1

Ruby

ByRosa Guy

5 Readers

Bird at My Window

Bird at My Window

ByRosa Guy

1987 • 2 Readers • 3

How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired

How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired

ByDany Laferrière,David Homel

1985 • 2 Readers

Real Love

BySharon Salzberg

2017 • 7 Readers • 320 pages

Surpassing Certainty : What My Twenties Taught Me

Surpassing Certainty : What My Twenties Taught Me

ByJanet Mock

2017 • 11 Readers • 256 pages • 3.7

Caraval

#1 of 3 in Caraval

ByStephanie Garber

2016 • 600 Readers • 448 pages • 3.6

Ain't I a Woman

Ain't I a Woman

Bybell hooks

1981 • 79 Readers • 205 pages • 4.6

Kintu

ByJennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

2014 • 20 Readers • 400 pages • 3.3

After I Do

ByTaylor Jenkins Reid

2014 • 133 Readers • 352 pages • 4

Noughts & Crosses

#1 of 5 in Noughts and Crosses

Noughts & Crosses

ByMalorie Blackman

2001 • 85 Readers • 132 pages • 3.5

The Origins of the Civil Rights Movements: Black Communities Organizing for Change

The Origins of the Civil Rights Movements: Black Communities Organizing for Change

ByAldon D. Morris

1984 • 2 Readers • 368 pages

The Day Ends Like Any Day

The Day Ends Like Any Day

ByTimothy Ogene

1 Reader • 268 pages

Blood at the Root

Blood at the Root

ByPatrick Phillips

2017 • 10 Readers • 4

The Education of Margot Sanchez

The Education of Margot Sanchez

ByLilliam Rivera

2017 • 2 Readers • 304 pages • 2

History of Wolves

History of Wolves

ByEmily Fridlund

2017 • 47 Readers • 288 pages • 3.6

The Hero of Ages

#3 of 7 in The Mistborn Saga

The Hero of Ages

ByBrandon Sanderson

2008 • 1,275 Readers • 690 pages • 4.6

Looking for Leroy

1 Postmillenial Pop

Looking for Leroy

ByMark Anthony Neal

2013 • 2 Readers • 224 pages

Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon

ByDaniel Keyes

1959 • 1,082 Readers • 117 pages • 4.3

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays

ByScaachi Koul

2017 • 56 Readers • 241 pages • 4

Wizard of the Crow

Wizard of the Crow

ByNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o

2004 • 38 Readers • 768 pages • 4.3

A Grain of Wheat

A Grain of Wheat

ByNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o

1967 • 19 Readers • 280 pages

Who Fears Death

#1 of 1 in Who Fears Death

Who Fears Death

ByNnedi Okorafor

2010 • 146 Readers • 386 pages • 3.8

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Locking Up Our Own

Locking Up Our Own

ByJames Forman Jr.

2017 • 26 Readers • 4.7

Pushout

ByMonique W. Morris

2016 • 24 Readers • 277 pages • 4.5

Invisible man

ByRalph Ellison

328 Readers • 3.8

Linden Hills

ByGloria Naylor

2017 • 2 Readers • 304 pages • 4

Autumn

#1 of 3 in Seasonal Quartet

ByAli Smith

2016 • 100 Readers • 272 pages • 4

Foreign Gods, Inc.

Foreign Gods, Inc.

ByOkey Ndibe

2014 • 3 Readers • 336 pages

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids

ByMeghan Daum(Editor),Kate Christensen(Contributor)

2015 • 23 Readers • 288 pages • 2.9

Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy

Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy

BySoman Chainani,Susan Dennard,+24 more

2017 • 41 Readers • 368 pages • 3.2

Where the Light Falls

Where the Light Falls

ByAllison Pataki,Owen Pataki

2017 • 5 Readers • 385 pages

The Chaos of Longing

The Chaos of Longing

ByK.Y. Robinson

2016 • 16 Readers • 118 pages • 3.1

Akata Warrior

#2 of 2 in The Nsibidi Scripts

ByNnedi Okorafor

2017 • 49 Readers • 477 pages • 4.3

Brown Girl in the Ring

Brown Girl in the Ring

ByNalo Hopkinson

1998 • 56 Readers • 8 pages • 3.5

March

#2 of 3 in March

ByJohn Lewis,Andrew Aydin

2015 • 54 Readers • 192 pages • 4.6

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The steppe wolf

The steppe wolf

ByHermann Hesse

1927 • 1 Reader

Binti: Home

#2 of 3 in Binti

ByNnedi Okorafor

2017 • 111 Readers • 133 pages • 3.9

Petals of Blood

Petals of Blood

ByNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o

1977 • 8 Readers • 432 pages

March

#3 of 3 in March

ByJohn Lewis,Andrew Aydin

2016 • 39 Readers • 246 pages • 4.8

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

#1 of 4 in Wayfarers

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

ByBecky Chambers

2014 • 1,020 Readers • 518 pages • 4.1

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Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

ByTarryn Fisher

2017 • 3 Readers • 327 pages • 5

When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost

When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down

ByJoan Morgan

2000 • 6 Readers • 240 pages • 4.3

Public library and other stories

Public library and other stories

ByAli Smith

10 Readers • 3.3

Cultural Amnesia

Cultural Amnesia

ByClive James

2007 • 12 Readers • 912 pages • 3

The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita

ByMikhail Bulgakov,Richard Pevear(Translator),+1 more

1967 • 650 Readers • 412 pages • 4.2

For Esme—With Love and Squalor, and Other Stories

For Esme—With Love and Squalor, and Other Stories

ByJ. D. Salinger

1953 • 2 Readers • 149 pages • 4

Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs

Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs

ByDavid H. Ikard

2017 • 1 Reader

Akata Witch

#1 of 2 in The Nsibidi Scripts

ByNnedi Okorafor

2011 • 191 Readers • 349 pages • 4

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The Clay Girl

ByHeather Tucker

2016 • 14 Readers • 347 pages • 2

Hello, Moto

ByNnedi Okorafor

2011 • 7 Readers • 16 pages • 3.3

The wide circumference of love

The wide circumference of love

ByMarita Golden

2017 • 6 Readers • 292 pages

The Good Immigrants

The Good Immigrants

ByMadeline Y. Hsu

2015 • 2 Readers • 352 pages

March

#1 of 3 in March

ByJohn Lewis

2013 • 105 Readers • 128 pages • 4.5

Lagoon

ByNnedi Okorafor

2014 • 72 Readers • 306 pages • 3.5

Bailey's Café

ByGloria Naylor

1992 • 7 Readers • 240 pages • 3

The Book of Phoenix

#0 of 1 in Who Fears Death

The Book of Phoenix

ByNnedi Okorafor

2015 • 37 Readers • 240 pages • 3.9

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Mama Can't Raise No Man

Mama Can't Raise No Man

ByRobyn Travis

2 Readers

The Lying Game

ByRuth Ware

2017 • 123 Readers • 480 pages • 3.3

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Liar

ByK.L. Slater

2017 • 11 Readers • 3.7

I'll never write my memoirs

I'll never write my memoirs

ByGrace Jones

2015 • 6 Readers • 400 pages • 3

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Willow Weep for Me

Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression

ByMeri Nana-Ama Danquah

1998 • 2 Readers • 266 pages

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Questions for Ada

Questions for Ada

ByIjeoma Umebinyuo

2015 • 3 Readers • 4

Know the Mother

Know the Mother

ByDesiree Cooper

2016 • 1 Reader • 112 pages

The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle

ByJeannette Walls

2005 • 418 Readers • 304 pages • 4.2

Afrofuturism 2.0

Afrofuturism 2.0

ByRicardo Guthrie(Contributor),Grace Gipson(Contributor)

2015 • 2 Readers • 240 pages

Afrofuturism

ByYtasha Womack

2013 • 7 Readers • 226 pages • 4.5

The Sellout

ByPaul Beatty

2015 • 157 Readers • 289 pages • 3.7

The Girl with All the Gifts

#1 of 2 in The Girl With All the Gifts

The Girl with All the Gifts

ByM.R. Carey

2014 • 510 Readers • 461 pages • 4

The Cutting Season

The Cutting Season

ByAttica Locke

2012 • 38 Readers • 384 pages • 4.1

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

ByAnnie Dillard

1974 • 75 Readers • 336 pages • 4.3

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

ByDavid Grann

2017 • 514 Readers • 416 pages • 4.1

Octavia's Brood

Octavia's Brood

ByAdrienne Maree Brown(Editor/Contributor),Walidah Imarisha(Editor/Contributor)

2015 • 26 Readers • 296 pages • 3.5

Nine Years Under

Nine Years Under

BySheri Booker

2013 • 5 Readers • 261 pages

The Book of Negroes

The Book of Negroes

ByLawrence Hill

2007 • 32 Readers • 377 pages • 4.4

Rest in Power

BySybrina Fulton,Tracy Martin

2017 • 6 Readers • 331 pages • 5

In the Country We Love: My Family Divided

In the Country We Love: My Family Divided

ByDiane Guerrero

2016 • 22 Readers • 259 pages • 3.7

America's Original Sin

America's Original Sin

ByJim Wallis

2016 • 8 Readers • 238 pages • 3

The Fifth Season

#1 of 3 in The Broken Earth

The Fifth Season

ByN.K. Jemisin

2015 • 1,529 Readers • 421 pages • 4.3

Just Mercy

ByBryan Stevenson

2014 • 231 Readers • 336 pages • 4.8

A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal

A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal

ByJen Waite

2017 • 12 Readers • 272 pages • 3.5