America in the King Years
by Taylor Branch
4.38 · 34 ratings
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The Color Purple Collection
by Alice Walker
4.18 · 127 ratings
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The Night Trilogy
by Elie Wiesel
4.14 · 152 ratings
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Ishmael
by Daniel Quinn
4.03 · 113 ratings
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Maus
by Art Spiegelman
4.43 · 149 ratings
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Earthseed
by Octavia E. Butler
4.28 · 137 ratings
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Civilizations Rise and Fall
by Jared Diamond
3.95 · 98 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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The American Trilogy
by Philip Roth
3.86 · 84 ratings
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The Autobiographies
by Frederick Douglass
4.21 · 77 ratings
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Maya Angelou's Autobiography
by Maya Angelou
4.24 · 179 ratings
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson
by Robert A. Caro
4.28 · 102 ratings
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The Teachings of Don Juan
by Carlos Castaneda
4.02 · 171 ratings
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March
by John Lewis
4.49 · 95 ratings
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Auschwitz Trilogy
by Primo Levi
4.36 · 95 ratings
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Voices of Utopia
by Svetlana Alexievich
4.43 · 116 ratings
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Gaither Sisters
by Rita Williams-Garcia
4.03 · 64 ratings
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The Cairo Trilogy
by Naguib Mahfouz
4.26 · 80 ratings
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The Breadwinner
by Deborah Ellis
4.07 · 94 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.33 · 75 ratings
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Capital
by Karl Marx
4.04 · 54 ratings
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Modern History
by Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.23 · 52 ratings
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قصة الحضارة
by Will Durant
4.25 · 68 ratings
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The Story of Civilization
by Will Durant
4.34 · 58 ratings
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