#BlackLivesMatter Reading List

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Quicksand and Passing
Quicksand and Passing 3.95 avg rating — 4,574 ratings
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The Known World
The Known World 3.84 avg rating — 44,327 ratings
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The Changeling
The Changeling 3.77 avg rating — 26,928 ratings
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The Black Rose
The Black Rose 4.26 avg rating — 984 ratings
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Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama
Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama
by: Tim Wise
4.14 avg rating — 533 ratings
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Juneteenth
Juneteenth 3.60 avg rating — 2,214 ratings
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Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity
Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity
by: Tim Wise
4.07 avg rating — 577 ratings
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The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America
The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America 3.62 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Wonders of the African World
Wonders of the African World 4.17 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America
The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America 3.80 avg rating — 225 ratings
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In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past 4.26 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Olivia's Story: The Conspiracy of Heroes behind Shelley v Kraemer
Olivia's Story: The Conspiracy of Heroes behind Shelley v Kraemer really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Lynching of Cleo Wright
The Lynching of Cleo Wright 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Freedom Summer Murders
The Freedom Summer Murders 3.85 avg rating — 751 ratings
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The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why 3.94 avg rating — 623 ratings
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Witnessing Whiteness: First Steps Toward an Antiracist Practice and Culture
Witnessing Whiteness: First Steps Toward an Antiracist Practice and Culture 3.90 avg rating — 465 ratings
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The News: A User's Manual
The News: A User's Manual 3.58 avg rating — 3,401 ratings
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Combined Destinies: Whites Sharing Grief about Racism
Combined Destinies: Whites Sharing Grief about Racism 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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White Lies
White Lies 3.78 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Call and Response: Key Debates in African American Studies
Call and Response: Key Debates in African American Studies 4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, 1865-Present (Oxford Handbooks)
The Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, 1865-Present (Oxford Handbooks) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Fragile Mind: How It Has Produced and Unwittingly Perpetuates America's Tragic Disparities
The Fragile Mind: How It Has Produced and Unwittingly Perpetuates America's Tragic Disparities 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Why Are So Many Black Men in Prison?
Why Are So Many Black Men in Prison? 4.17 avg rating — 66 ratings
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At the Elbows of My Elders: One Family's Journey toward Civil Rights (Volume 1)
At the Elbows of My Elders: One Family's Journey toward Civil Rights (Volume 1) 3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement 4.15 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Africana
Africana 4.51 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice 3.87 avg rating — 750 ratings
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America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics: Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy
America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics: Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights 4.35 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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All the Rage: The Boondocks Past and Present
All the Rage: The Boondocks Past and Present 4.38 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor
Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor 4.14 avg rating — 96 ratings
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For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law 3.93 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding
The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding 4.09 avg rating — 1,965 ratings
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No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row
No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row 3.86 avg rating — 1,397 ratings
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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 4.18 avg rating — 16,210 ratings
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The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings
The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings
by: Joy James
4.40 avg rating — 30 ratings
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If He Hollers Let Him Go
If He Hollers Let Him Go 3.97 avg rating — 2,560 ratings
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Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime And The Decline Of Social Institutions In America
Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime And The Decline Of Social Institutions In America 2.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America
Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America 3.97 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75
Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75 4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings
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That's the Way it Was: Stories of Struggle, Survival and Self-Respect in Twentieth-Century Black St. Louis
That's the Way it Was: Stories of Struggle, Survival and Self-Respect in Twentieth-Century Black St. Louis 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Life in Prison
Life in Prison 3.90 avg rating — 760 ratings
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The History of White People
The History of White People 4.07 avg rating — 3,174 ratings
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty 4.45 avg rating — 5,137 ratings
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Black Profiles in Courage : A Legacy of African American Achievement
Black Profiles in Courage : A Legacy of African American Achievement 4.15 avg rating — 159 ratings
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The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation
The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice
And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice 4.21 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States 4.26 avg rating — 3,611 ratings
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Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory (SAGE Series on Race and Ethnic Relations)
Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory (SAGE Series on Race and Ethnic Relations) 4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings
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When the Bottom Falls Out
When the Bottom Falls Out 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Kaleidoscope: The Gift of Madness
The Kaleidoscope: The Gift of Madness 3.94 avg rating — 72 ratings
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100 Years of Lynchings
100 Years of Lynchings 4.64 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Black Lives Matter: Is It Open Season on Killing and Mistreating Blacks in America
Black Lives Matter: Is It Open Season on Killing and Mistreating Blacks in America 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction 4.17 avg rating — 779 ratings
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Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More 4.30 avg rating — 16,468 ratings
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The Roll
The Roll
by: Joe Hnida
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Underworld: Sex, Drugs, and a Loaded Gun
Underworld: Sex, Drugs, and a Loaded Gun 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings
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POLICE STATE USA -the Pledge of Allegiance was the origin of Hitler salutes + Nazi behavior, Swastikas were "S" letters for "SOCIALIST"
POLICE STATE USA -the Pledge of Allegiance was the origin of Hitler salutes + Nazi behavior, Swastikas were "S" letters for "SOCIALIST"
by: Ian Tinny
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Race
Race 4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America 3.96 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America
Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America 4.10 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Ghost Boys
Ghost Boys 4.33 avg rating — 32,635 ratings
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Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA's Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Activists
Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA's Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Activists 4.14 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Black Lives Matter: A Picture Book for Kids
Black Lives Matter: A Picture Book for Kids it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Mandela and the General
Mandela and the General 4.16 avg rating — 354 ratings
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Seeds of Slavery
Seeds of Slavery 4.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide 4.27 avg rating — 2,669 ratings
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How To Talk To Black People
How To Talk To Black People
by: A. Anon
3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Mr. Confidence
Mr. Confidence 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Who's the Master
Who's the Master it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Middle Passage
Middle Passage 3.85 avg rating — 5,410 ratings
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On Account of Race
On Account of Race 4.15 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Night of Fires
Night of Fires 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? 4.34 avg rating — 26,841 ratings
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You 4.47 avg rating — 53,572 ratings
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Slavery of Faith
Slavery of Faith 3.73 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Vision of Race Unity: America's Most Challenging Issue
The Vision of Race Unity: America's Most Challenging Issue it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Black Jokes About White Folks: The Black Lives Matter Joke Book
Black Jokes About White Folks: The Black Lives Matter Joke Book 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Evil Aliens With Afros
Evil Aliens With Afros 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Seeds of Deception
Seeds of Deception 4.33 avg rating — 58 ratings
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TWAS The Year 2020
TWAS The Year 2020 3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Confessions From Your Token Black Colleague: True Stories & Candid Conversations About Equity & Inclusion In The Workplace
Confessions From Your Token Black Colleague: True Stories & Candid Conversations About Equity & Inclusion In The Workplace 4.20 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Black and Blue Lives: How to Survive and Reform American Criminal Justice
Black and Blue Lives: How to Survive and Reform American Criminal Justice it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Sink or Walk on Water: Dealing With Adversity While Walking In Your Purpose
Sink or Walk on Water: Dealing With Adversity While Walking In Your Purpose 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Far Away from Close to Home: A Black Millennial Woman In Progress
Far Away from Close to Home: A Black Millennial Woman In Progress 4.41 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Life of Louise Norton Little: An extraordinary woman: mother of Malcolm X and his 7 siblings
The Life of Louise Norton Little: An extraordinary woman: mother of Malcolm X and his 7 siblings 4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Wild Women and the Blues
Wild Women and the Blues 3.77 avg rating — 7,344 ratings
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Los chicos de la Nickel
Los chicos de la Nickel 4.26 avg rating — 291,132 ratings
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Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir
Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir 4.06 avg rating — 2,903 ratings
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A Blind Eye
A Blind Eye 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man 4.38 avg rating — 28,546 ratings
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The Ship and the Safe Harbor: A Celebration of Toni Morrison in Interviews and Reviews from Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women (1988–1995)
The Ship and the Safe Harbor: A Celebration of Toni Morrison in Interviews and Reviews from Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women (1988–1995) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Rebel To the Light
Rebel To the Light 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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W.E.B. Du Bois: The Lost and the Found
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Lost and the Found 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America 4.20 avg rating — 107 ratings
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HUSH MONEY: How One Woman Proved Systemic Racism in her Workplace and Kept her Job
HUSH MONEY: How One Woman Proved Systemic Racism in her Workplace and Kept her Job 4.45 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World--and How to Repair It All
Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World--and How to Repair It All 4.52 avg rating — 341 ratings
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Under Color of Law (Trevor Finnegan, #1)
Under Color of Law (Trevor Finnegan, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 3,808 ratings
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Intellectual Warfare
Intellectual Warfare 4.23 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Black Queen
The Black Queen 3.98 avg rating — 3,482 ratings
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