The Harlem Renaissance

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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,787 ratings
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Native Son
Native Son 4.04 avg rating — 103,287 ratings
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Passing
Passing 3.92 avg rating — 76,696 ratings
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The Collected Poems
The Collected Poems 4.36 avg rating — 18,158 ratings
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Cane
Cane 3.82 avg rating — 11,324 ratings
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The Ways of White Folks
The Ways of White Folks 4.46 avg rating — 5,398 ratings
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man 3.93 avg rating — 11,073 ratings
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Black No More
Black No More really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,580 ratings
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The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.23 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
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Not Without Laughter
Not Without Laughter 4.23 avg rating — 3,669 ratings
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The Blacker the Berry...
The Blacker the Berry... 3.94 avg rating — 2,936 ratings
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Quicksand
Quicksand 3.72 avg rating — 8,339 ratings
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Uncle Tom's Children
Uncle Tom's Children 4.13 avg rating — 3,357 ratings
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The New Negro
The New Negro 4.12 avg rating — 905 ratings
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Home to Harlem
Home to Harlem 3.64 avg rating — 1,655 ratings
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Mules and Men
Mules and Men 4.10 avg rating — 6,333 ratings
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The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader 4.21 avg rating — 430 ratings
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Ragtime
Ragtime 3.89 avg rating — 45,693 ratings
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers
The Negro Speaks of Rivers 4.33 avg rating — 713 ratings
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Nigger Heaven
Nigger Heaven 3.39 avg rating — 279 ratings
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The Short Stories
The Short Stories 4.36 avg rating — 697 ratings
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God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse 4.26 avg rating — 639 ratings
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Dust Tracks on a Road
Dust Tracks on a Road 4.11 avg rating — 8,197 ratings
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Banjo
Banjo 3.50 avg rating — 532 ratings
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Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral 3.93 avg rating — 1,562 ratings
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I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey
I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey 4.34 avg rating — 976 ratings
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The Walls of Jericho
The Walls of Jericho 3.94 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Harlem Shadows
Harlem Shadows 3.95 avg rating — 533 ratings
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Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson 4.16 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Banana Bottom
Banana Bottom 3.79 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Infants of the Spring
Infants of the Spring 3.81 avg rating — 475 ratings
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Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America
Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America 4.51 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Tambourines to Glory
Tambourines to Glory 4.12 avg rating — 399 ratings
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Black Boy
Black Boy 4.09 avg rating — 55,306 ratings
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Aaron Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaissance
Aaron Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaissance 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten
Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten 4.20 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Cotton Club
The Cotton Club 3.62 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Here I Stand
Here I Stand 4.32 avg rating — 426 ratings
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My Soul's High Song: The Collected Writings
My Soul's High Song: The Collected Writings 4.28 avg rating — 69 ratings
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A Life in Letters
A Life in Letters 4.34 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.31 avg rating — 8,297 ratings
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Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey 4.37 avg rating — 780 ratings
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Daddy Was a Number Runner
Daddy Was a Number Runner 4.19 avg rating — 1,365 ratings
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Mr. Bojangles: The Biography of Bill Robinson
Mr. Bojangles: The Biography of Bill Robinson 3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance
Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance 4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance 3.65 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.02 avg rating — 304 ratings
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Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance
Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories 4.14 avg rating — 1,553 ratings
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Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance
Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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"Winds Can Wake Up the Dead": An Eric Walrond Reader
"Winds Can Wake Up the Dead": An Eric Walrond Reader 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties
Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties 4.20 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Flight: A Novel
Flight: A Novel 3.60 avg rating — 43 ratings
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God Sends Sunday
God Sends Sunday 3.30 avg rating — 33 ratings
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When Washington Was in Vogue: A Lost Novel of the Harlem Renaissance
When Washington Was in Vogue: A Lost Novel of the Harlem Renaissance 3.90 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Of Minnie the Moocher & Me
Of Minnie the Moocher & Me 4.23 avg rating — 39 ratings
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This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance
This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance 4.37 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Harlem Renaissance Remembered: Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and the Sound of the Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance Remembered: Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and the Sound of the Harlem Renaissance 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Music is My Mistress
Music is My Mistress 3.99 avg rating — 438 ratings
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Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking At The Harlem Renaissance Through Poems
Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking At The Harlem Renaissance Through Poems 4.27 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Fire in the Flint (Brown Thrasher Books)
The Fire in the Flint (Brown Thrasher Books) 3.97 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Voices from the Harlem Renaissance
Voices from the Harlem Renaissance really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Harlem Renaissance in American History
The Harlem Renaissance in American History really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance 4.11 avg rating — 194 ratings
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The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
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On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance
On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance 4.01 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Laughing to Stop Myself from Crying (The Black Classics Series)
Laughing to Stop Myself from Crying (The Black Classics Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Cotton Club (ST MARTIN'S ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SERIES)
The Cotton Club (ST MARTIN'S ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SERIES) 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke 4.03 avg rating — 310 ratings
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You're the Voice: Billie Holiday
You're the Voice: Billie Holiday 4.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Collected Poems
The Collected Poems 4.14 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Gentleman Jigger: A Novel of the Harlem Renaissance
Gentleman Jigger: A Novel of the Harlem Renaissance 3.62 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Arthur Alfonso Schomburg: Black Bibliophile & Collector
Arthur Alfonso Schomburg: Black Bibliophile & Collector 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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A Renaissance in Harlem: Lost Essays of the WPA, by Ralph Ellison, Dorothy West, and Other Voices of a Generation
A Renaissance in Harlem: Lost Essays of the WPA, by Ralph Ellison, Dorothy West, and Other Voices of a Generation 4.31 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Duke Ellington's America
Duke Ellington's America 4.09 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White
The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White 3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaissance Reader
The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaissance Reader 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Zora Neale Hurston: Novels & Stories
Zora Neale Hurston: Novels & Stories 4.37 avg rating — 625 ratings
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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston 4.36 avg rating — 1,135 ratings
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Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist 4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings
Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings 4.34 avg rating — 257 ratings
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I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive 4.42 avg rating — 2,568 ratings
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The Passionate Observer: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten
The Passionate Observer: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten's Portraits of Women
Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten's Portraits of Women it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography
Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography 4.14 avg rating — 127 ratings
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The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer
The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer 3.79 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)
Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32) 3.94 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance
Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance 4.31 avg rating — 61 ratings
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There Is Confusion
There Is Confusion 3.99 avg rating — 569 ratings
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression 3.28 avg rating — 450 ratings
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The Great Migration: An American Story
The Great Migration: An American Story 4.33 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life 4.06 avg rating — 67,527 ratings
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Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra 4.16 avg rating — 3,428 ratings
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Ethiopian Stories (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)
Ethiopian Stories (Northeastern Library of Black Literature) 3.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington 3.54 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Black Orchid Blues (Lanie Price #2)
Black Orchid Blues (Lanie Price #2) 3.86 avg rating — 323 ratings
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Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999) : A Catalogue Raisonne
Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999) : A Catalogue Raisonne it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington 3.89 avg rating — 657 ratings
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A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich 3.81 avg rating — 975 ratings
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Duke Ellington: An American Composer and Icon
Duke Ellington: An American Composer and Icon 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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