Black Boy
By: Richard Wright , Jerry W. Ward Jr.
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Black Boyis a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's jou…
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1. Wise Blood
By: Flannery O'Connor
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more
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- classics
"Jesus died to redeem you,"-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
2. The Bluest Eye
By: Toni Morrison
4.12
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and bol… read more
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- classics
- african american
- race
"Lonely was much better than alone."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons"-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
3. Cane
By: Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner
3.83
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evo… read more
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- classics
- african american
- race
"Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free…"-Jean Toomer, Cane
4. Soul on Ice
By: Eldridge Cleaver
3.97
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way the United States loo… read more
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- classics
- biography
- memoir
- race
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- african american
"Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green and peaceful, sunlit place---but it's all jungle her…"-Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice
"The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder, really, unless the victim is white. And it was only when the newspapers and magazines started carrying pictures and s…"-Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice
5. Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
3.91
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more
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- classics
- african american
- race
"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
6. Go Tell It on the Mountain
By: James Baldwin
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more
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- classics
- african american
- race
7. Down Second Avenue: Growing Up in a South African Ghetto
By: Ezekiel Mphahlele , Es'kia Mphahlele
3.58
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
Es'kia Mphahlele's seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa--available for the first time i… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
8. Black Boy
By: Richard Wright , Jerry W. Ward Jr.
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Black Boyis a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's jou… read more
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- classics
- biography
- memoir
- race
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- african american
9. Their Eyes Were Watching God
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more
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- classics
- african american
10. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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- classics
- nonfiction
- memoir
- race
11. In Love Trouble: Stories of Black Women
By: Alice Walker
4.10
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walker's power to depict b… read more
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- classics
- african american
- race
12. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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- classics
- nonfiction
- memoir
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13. High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly
By: Donald Spoto
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on his unprecedented access to Grace Kelly, bestselling biographer Donald Spoto at last off… read more
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14. Franny and Zooey
By: J.D. Salinger
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergradu… read more
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15. John Brown
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , David R. Roediger
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important African… read more
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16. Lost in the Funhouse
By: John Barth
4.27
Format: 197 pages,
Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fict… read more
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17. The Life of Samuel Johnson
By: James Boswell
3.76
Format: 85 pages, Hardcover
Poet, lexicographer, critic, moralist and Great Cham, Dr. Johnson had in his friend Boswell the ide… read more
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18. The Souls of Black Folk
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more
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19. Beloved
By: Toni Morrison
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more
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20. FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
By: Steven Lomazow
4.33
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
THE HIDDEN ILLNESSES THAT SHAPED FDR’S LIFE AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY Conventional wisdo… read more
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"Researching this book has been a voyage of discovery and it is a privilege to present an unexpurgated medical biography of the most consequential American of the twentieth century."-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"Another new and groundbreaking story in FDR Unmasked is about his highly consequential friendship with Vincent Astor, the closest with any man in his adult life. To truly understand the “real"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"FDR Unmasked chronicles Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life from a physician’s perspective. It tells a harrowing story of heroic achievement by a great leader determined to impart his vision of freedom …"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"FDR Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand information from multiple physicians - even a shoc…"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
21. Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
By: Claudia Clark
4.28
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
One of the great political friendships of the modern world, as told through key moments that shaped… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"As she had done when she introduced the US president in Berlin, she addressed him publicly with the informal du for the first time since the NSA controversy in 2013."-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
"Let me make two remarks. First I concentrate on the task ahead for 2016. I’m quite busy with that—thank you very much. And I’m looking with great interest in the American election campaign.’ For the …"-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
"Obama’s next words captured the attention of the world and the amusement of those present. As he wagged his finger at the crowd, he scolded, ‘So stop it, all of you. I know you have to find something…"-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
"In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to convert her statements to English, Obama gave the chancellor and the p…"-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
