Genre :: African American (14 books)

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  #8

  Beloved

  by Toni Morrison

  (14 Reviews)

  719 Points

  "124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children."

  

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  #15

  Invisible Man

  by Ralph Ellison

  (16 Reviews)

  640 Points

  "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—...

  

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  #28

  The Color Purple

  by Alice Walker

  (15 Reviews)

  392 Points

  "You better not never tell nobody but God. It'd kill your mammy."

  

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  #39

  Native Son

  by Richard Wright

  (6 Reviews)

  348 Points

  "Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room."

  

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  #52

  Their Eyes Were Watching God

  by Zora Neale Hurston

  (10 Reviews)

  312 Points

  "Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."

  

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  #70

  Song of Solomon

  by Toni Morrison

  (7 Reviews)

  250 Points

  "The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o'clock."

  

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  #89

  Go Tell It on the Mountain

  by James Baldwin

  (4 Reviews)

  208 Points

  "Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father."

  

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  #207

  Jazz

  by Toni Morrison

  (4 Reviews)

  95 Points

  "Sth, I know that woman."

  

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  #293

  Sula

  by Toni Morrison

  (3 Reviews)

  73 Points

  "In that place, where they tore the nightshade and blackberry patches from the roots to make room for the Medallion City Golf Course, there was once a neighborhood."

  

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  #368

  The Souls of Black Folk

  by W. E. B. Du Bois

  (1 Review)

  57 Points

  

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