Twelve Years a Slave

Twelve Years a Slave

By
Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup
1853 • 363 pages

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23 books

Inspirational

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The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos / Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
Promise Me, Dad
Truth Doesn't Have a Side: My Alarming Discovery about the Danger of Contact Sports
The Hidden Life of Trees
The first phone call from heaven

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13 books

History

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The Underground Railroad
Rise to Greatness: The History of Canada From the Vikings to the Present
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
A Short History of the Byzantine Empire
The Longer I'm Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006-
The Houseguests - a Memoir of Canadian Courage and CIA Sorcery
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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15 books

Biography

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Leonardo da Vinci
Permanent Record
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
A House in the Sky
The Kind Of Life It's Been: A Memoir
My Life
Not Even My Name: A True Story

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2 books

Slavery

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Spiro
The Underground Railroad
Twelve Years a Slave

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225 books

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Empire of Silence
We Are Legion
Mother Night
Alif the Unseen
We Ride the Storm
Under the Whispering Door

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17 books

History

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Unbroken
Mankind
Twelve Years a Slave
Postwar
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz

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91 books

Nonfiction

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Yichel
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
Radical Classicism: The Architecture of Quinlan Terry
The Classical Language of Architecture
The grammar of ornament
Lessons from Vernacular Architecture
Romanesque Architecture, Sculpture, Painting
Vitruvius

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21 books

Race

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Eugene Wilder
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Ain't I a Woman
Woke Racism
Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
White Guilt
Black Rednecks and White Liberals

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11 books

Owned To Read

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Luke
Twelve Years a Slave
Underworld
Hiroshima
The Man Who Forgot His Wife
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Bring Up the Bodies
The Glorious Deception: The Double Life of William Robinson, aka Chung Ling Soo, the "Marvelous Chinese Conjurer"

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405 books

History

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Martin Van Buren
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
The last founding father
James Madison : A Life Reconsidered
Thomas Jefferson the art of power
John Adams

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67 books

Classics

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Alice Through the Looking-glass: And What Alice Found There
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
1984
Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly ; The minister's wooing ; Oldtown folks

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40 books

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A Farewell To Arms
Song of Solomon
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
No Name in the Street

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108 books

To Read Warehouse

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The Two Towers
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
A Wrinkle in Time
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Destiny of the Republic
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