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Beloved
Beloved 3.97 avg rating — 476,914 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,066 ratings
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating — 50,751 ratings
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Cane
Cane 3.82 avg rating — 11,323 ratings
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Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2) 3.90 avg rating — 36,223 ratings
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Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark
Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark 4.02 avg rating — 100 ratings
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JUDGES: When The Light Lay Still
JUDGES: When The Light Lay Still 3.37 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (Ravicka, #3)
Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (Ravicka, #3) 4.18 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Event Factory (Ravicka, #1)
Event Factory (Ravicka, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 943 ratings
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Annotations
Annotations 4.18 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating — 6,089 ratings
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Zong! (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Zong! (Wesleyan Poetry Series) 4.15 avg rating — 1,687 ratings
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Counternarratives
Counternarratives 4.19 avg rating — 725 ratings
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Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note 4.18 avg rating — 179 ratings
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S O S: Poems, 1961-2013
S O S: Poems, 1961-2013 4.24 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Patter
Patter 4.23 avg rating — 129 ratings
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The Baptism & The Toilet
The Baptism & The Toilet 3.66 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The System of Dante's Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series)
The System of Dante's Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series) 3.97 avg rating — 183 ratings
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the new black (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
the new black (Wesleyan Poetry Series) 4.20 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Sleeping With the Dictionary
Sleeping With the Dictionary 3.99 avg rating — 1,577 ratings
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Platitudes
Platitudes 3.52 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Recyclopedia: Trimmings / S*PeRM**K*T / Muse and Drudge
Recyclopedia: Trimmings / S*PeRM**K*T / Muse and Drudge 4.16 avg rating — 698 ratings
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Splay Anthem
Splay Anthem 4.20 avg rating — 326 ratings
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Fanon
Fanon 3.36 avg rating — 183 ratings
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The White Boy Shuffle
The White Boy Shuffle 4.09 avg rating — 6,129 ratings
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Asia & Haiti
Asia & Haiti 4.31 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems
Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems 4.28 avg rating — 1,716 ratings