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Racism and Race Relations in Literature

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1

Cry, the Beloved Country

9,428 members

183 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

2

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,851 members

1,434 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963

3

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,235 members

520 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963

4

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,700 members

389 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963

5

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,789 members

434 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963

6

by Toni Morrison

22,972 members

409 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

7

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,825 members

340 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

8

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,503 members

142 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

9

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,772 members

244 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

10

by Kathryn Stockett

30,681 members

1,494 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: dara85, thecoroner, ahef1963,aulsmith

11

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

23,527 members

443 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

12

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,344 members

226 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

13

by William Shakespeare

17,041 members

132 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

14

13,689 members

248 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

15

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

13,286 members

125 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

16

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

11,226 members

128 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

17

by J. M. Coetzee

10,882 members

277 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

18

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,825 members

124 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner

19

Light in August

by William Faulkner

9,268 members

104 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

20

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

8,958 members

190 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

21

by Octavia E. Butler

8,487 members

355 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, dara85

22

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

7,704 members

107 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

23

The Human Stain

6,593 members

97 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

24

by Nadine Gordimer

1,819 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

25

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

by Mildred D. Taylor

11,847 members

382 reviews

3.9

Member: cej1027

26

Wide Sargasso Sea

8,507 members

255 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

27

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

7,791 members

297 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

28

by John Howard Griffin

4,312 members

79 reviews

4

Member: dara85

29

by John Grisham

4,079 members

165 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

30

The Kitchen House

by Kathleen Grissom

3,852 members

245 reviews

4

Member: dara85

31

by Lalita Tademy

3,001 members

54 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

32

The Personal Librarian

by Marie Benedict

2,517 members

129 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

33

Alex Cross's TRIAL

by James Patterson

2,509 members

58 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

34

The Devil's Punchbowl

1,609 members

47 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

35

Natchez Burning

1,608 members

84 reviews

4

Member: dara85

36

The Road to Memphis

by Mildred D. Taylor

1,227 members

15 reviews

4

Member: cej1027

37

1,173 members

57 reviews

4.2

Member: dara85

38

Mississippi Bridge

by Mildred D. Taylor

1,090 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: cej1027

39

A Gathering of Old Men

by Ernest J. Gaines

1,052 members

26 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

40

by Laila Ibrahim

825 members

58 reviews

4

Member: dara85

41

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain Library)

759 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

42

Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read The Newspaper

by Aaron McGruder

358 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

43

Explorers of the New Century

by Magnus Mills

262 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: bluepiano

44

Can We Talk About Race? and Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation

by Beverly Daniel Tatum

134 members

4.2

Member: hipdeep

45

by Dorothy Sterling

96 members

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

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Started: sturlington
March 2014
Type: Unnumbered

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