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Racism and Race Relations in Literature

Members: 9 participating members
thecoroner, alex68, dara85, ahef1963, hipdeep, cej1027, aulsmith, bluepiano

Rank Title Author Added

1

Cry, the Beloved Country

9,116 members

174 reviews

4

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

2

To Kill a Mockingbird

76,251 members

1,435 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963

3

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

41,633 members

509 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963

4

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

22,841 members

375 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963

5

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

19,944 members

423 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963

6

by Toni Morrison

22,053 members

399 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

7

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,005 members

333 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

8

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,096 members

137 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

9

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,448 members

237 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

10

by Kathryn Stockett

29,553 members

1,471 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: dara85, thecoroner, ahef1963,aulsmith

11

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

22,798 members

438 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

12

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

16,771 members

221 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

13

by William Shakespeare

16,347 members

128 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

14

13,408 members

239 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

15

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

12,633 members

120 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

16

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

10,746 members

126 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

17

by J. M. Coetzee

10,588 members

265 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

18

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,443 members

118 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner

19

Light in August

by William Faulkner

8,971 members

101 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

20

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

8,698 members

186 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

21

by Octavia E. Butler

7,805 members

332 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, dara85

22

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

7,448 members

107 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

23

The Human Stain

6,463 members

95 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

24

by Nadine Gordimer

1,750 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

25

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

by Mildred D. Taylor

11,250 members

380 reviews

3.9

Member: cej1027

26

Wide Sargasso Sea

8,147 members

241 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

27

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

7,319 members

287 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

28

by John Howard Griffin

4,166 members

78 reviews

4

Member: dara85

29

by John Grisham

3,856 members

160 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

30

The Kitchen House

by Kathleen Grissom

3,732 members

243 reviews

4

Member: dara85

31

by Lalita Tademy

2,927 members

54 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

32

Alex Cross's TRIAL

by James Patterson

2,386 members

58 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

33

The Personal Librarian

by Marie Benedict

2,038 members

118 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

34

The Devil's Punchbowl

1,546 members

44 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

35

Natchez Burning

1,514 members

82 reviews

4

Member: dara85

36

The Road to Memphis

by Mildred D. Taylor

1,175 members

14 reviews

4

Member: cej1027

37

1,092 members

56 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

38

A Gathering of Old Men

by Ernest J. Gaines

1,012 members

27 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

39

Mississippi Bridge

by Mildred D. Taylor

993 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: cej1027

40

by Laila Ibrahim

782 members

55 reviews

4

Member: dara85

41

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain Library)

747 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

42

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

by Aaron McGruder

351 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

43

Explorers of the New Century

by Magnus Mills

263 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

130 members

4.2

Member: hipdeep

45

by Dorothy Sterling

95 members

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

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Started: sturlington
March 2014
Type: Unnumbered

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