| 2024 (Fiction) |
| Night Watch |
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Jayne Anne Phillips
Kirkus Set in West Virginia during and after the Civil War, Phillips’ book takes as given that slavery ...More |
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| 2024 (Biography) |
| King: A Life |
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Jonathan Eig
Publishers Weekly Martin Luther King Jr. went beyond meek nonviolence into far-reaching radicalism, according...More |
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| 2023 (Fiction) |
| Demon Copperhead: |
Barbara Kingsolver
Publishers Weekly The family of West Texas born-and-raised Cassidy Drake, who’s 13 and reads as white, ...More |
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| 2021 (Fiction) |
| The Night Watchman: |
Louise Erdrich
Kirkus In this unhurried, kaleidoscopic story, the efforts of Native Americans to save their lands from being...More |
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| 2020 (Fiction) |
| The Nickel Boys |
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Colson Whitehead
Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More |
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| 2020 (Biography) |
| Sontag: Her Life and Work |
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Benjamin Moser
Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More |
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| 2019 |
| The Overstory |
Richard Powers
Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More |
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| 2019 |
| Amity and Prosperity |
Eliza Griswold
Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More |
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| 2019 |
| The New Negro |
Jeffery C. Stewart
Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More |
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| 2018 |
| Less |
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Andrew Sean Greer
Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More |
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| 2017 |
| The Underground Railroad |
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Colson Whitehead
Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More |
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| 2016 |
| The Sympathizer |
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More |
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| 2014 |
| The Goldfinch: A Novel |
Donna Tartt
Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More |
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| 2010 |
| Tinkers |
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Paul Harding
Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More |
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| 2009 |
| Olive Kitteridge: |
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Elizabeth Strout
Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More |
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| 2007 |
| The Road |
Cormac McCarthy
Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More |
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| 2006 |
| March |
Geraldine Brooks
Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More |
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| 2005 |
| Gilead: A Novel |
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Marilynne Robinson
Publishers Weekly Ten influential black men-including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall,...More |
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