The Color Purple Collection
by Alice Walker
4.18 · 127 ratings
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Involuntary trilogy
by Isabel Allende
4.09 · 166 ratings
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Beloved Trilogy
by Toni Morrison
3.84 · 139 ratings
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L'amica geniale
by Elena Ferrante
4.28 · 174 ratings
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The Color Purple Collection
by Alice Walker
4.18 · 127 ratings
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Patternmaster
by Octavia E. Butler
4.12 · 159 ratings
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Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
4.31 · 189 ratings
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The African Trilogy
by Chinua Achebe
3.81 · 122 ratings
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Xenogenesis
by Octavia E. Butler
4.25 · 151 ratings
female-author · first-contact · horror · poc-author · post-apocalyptic · classics · literary · feminism · space · dystopia · apocalyptic · lgbtq · action-adventure · afrofuturism · aliens · fiction · female-mc · poc-mc · 20th-century · sci-fi
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Great Plains Trilogy
by Willa Cather
3.85 · 90 ratings
industrial-era · family · audiobook · university · fiction · 20th-century · historical · outdoors · historical-fiction · female-author · literary-fiction · book · western · young-adult · classics · literary · coming-of-age · feminism · drama · friendship
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Maya Angelou's Autobiography
by Maya Angelou
4.24 · 179 ratings
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Daddy-Long-Legs
by Jean Webster
4.10 · 71 ratings
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Taj Mahal Trilogy
by Indu Sundaresan
3.97 · 70 ratings
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Love Medicine
by Louise Erdrich
3.93 · 180 ratings
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Alexander the Great
by Mary Renault
4.07 · 89 ratings
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Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
3.80 · 110 ratings
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Gaither Sisters
by Rita Williams-Garcia
4.03 · 64 ratings
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Regeneration
by Pat Barker
4.07 · 84 ratings
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The Cairo Trilogy
by Naguib Mahfouz
4.26 · 80 ratings
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Cazalet Chronicles
by Elizabeth Jane Howard
4.15 · 96 ratings
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The Breadwinner
by Deborah Ellis
4.07 · 94 ratings
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Logans
by Mildred D. Taylor
4.03 · 160 ratings
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The Century Cycle
by August Wilson
3.90 · 104 ratings
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Nervous Conditions
by Tsitsi Dangarembga
3.69 · 52 ratings
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Perveen Mistry
by Sujata Massey
3.95 · 73 ratings
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