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The Healers (African Writers Series)
1.  The Healers (African Writers Series) by Ayi Kwei Armah
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  "A tale of mythic proportions set among The Healers of Ghana."
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Two Thousand Seasons (African Writers Series)
2.  Two Thousand Seasons (African Writers Series) by Ayi Kwei Armah
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  ""Life before the deserts became deserts." Pure, poetic, genius."
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Robinson Crusoe (Oxford World's Classics)
3.  Robinson Crusoe (Oxford World's Classics) by Daniel Defoe
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  "A metaphor for finding one's way through life..."
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Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (Wordsworth Classics)
4.  Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (Wordsworth Classics) by Mark Twain
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  "Forget the 'n' word. Delve into the depths of the Mississippi river."
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The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics)
5.  The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics) by Jaroslav Hasek
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  "Hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army - laugh out loud."
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Black Plays: Vol 3 (New Theatrescripts) (Play Anthologies)
6.  Black Plays: Vol 3 (New Theatrescripts) (Play Anthologies) by Paul Boakye
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  "Six essential plays by British authors; includes Paul Boakye's controversial Boy with Beer."
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No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the American South
7.  No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the American South by Gary Younge
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  "Younge finds himself . Is he black, or British, or both?"
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The Harder They Come: A Novel
8.  The Harder They Come: A Novel by Michael Thelwell
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  "Country boy turned city slicker. Forget the film - brilliantly written."
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The Painted Canoe (Anthony C. Winkler Collection)
9.  The Painted Canoe (Anthony C. Winkler Collection) by Anthony C. Winkler
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  "An ugly Jamaican fisherman loses his way at sea. Wickedly funny!"
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Just above My Head
10.  Just above My Head by James Baldwin
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  "Love and courage bind three extraordinary people across three decades."
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Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama (Diaries, Letters and Essays)
11.  Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama (Diaries, Letters and Essays) by David Mamet
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  "Connecting art to life, language to power, imagination to survival, public spectacle to private script."
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A Whore's Profession: Notes and Essays
12.  A Whore's Profession: Notes and Essays by David Mamet
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  "Collected prose of one of America's most provocative playwrights."
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Invisible Man (Essential Penguin)
13.  Invisible Man (Essential Penguin) by Ralph Ellison
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  "A young nameless black man moves through the hellish levels of American intolerance and cultural blindness."
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War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics)
14.  War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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  "Everything in which we find happiness and greatness, grief and humiliation."
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Beloved
15.  Beloved by Toni Morrison
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  "The death of Beloved who died at her mother's hands and who will return to claim retribution."
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Wuthering Heights (Pocket Penguin Classics)
16.  Wuthering Heights (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Emily Brontë
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  "In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere."
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (New Directions Paperbook)
17.  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (New Directions Paperbook) by Tennessee Williams
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  "The tragic lives of a guilt-ridden alcoholic, his sexually-frustrated wife, and a tyrannical patriarch are violently exposed in Williams' renowned play."
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Glengarry Glen Ross (Modern Plays) (Modern Classics)
18.  Glengarry Glen Ross (Modern Plays) (Modern Classics) by David Mamet
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  "Four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition."
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Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2007 (Writers' & Artists' Yearbook)
19.  Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2007 (Writers' & Artists' Yearbook) by Ian Rankin
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  "A vital tool for those who need to place their work."
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics)
20.  The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics) by Malcolm X
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  "The life and work of Malcolm X."
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Black Boy: A Record of Youth and Childhood (Vintage classics)
21.  Black Boy: A Record of Youth and Childhood (Vintage classics) by Richard Wright
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  "A reissue of Wright's 1945 autobiography about growing up in the Jim Crow South only one step away from slavery."
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Native Son (Vintage classics)
22.  Native Son (Vintage classics) by Richard Wright
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  "The story of Bigger Thomas, a man who wages a war between himself and the outside white world."
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Jazz, Giants, and Journeys: The Photography of Herman Leonard
23.  Jazz, Giants, and Journeys: The Photography of Herman Leonard by David Houston
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  "Features Herman Leonard's full body of work, including portraits of Billie Holliday, Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe."
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Lady Sings the Blues
24.  Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
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  "The incredible life story of jazz legend Billie Holiday."
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You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir
25.  You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir by Wole Soyinka
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  "Is it right to employ violence against a tyrannical government that itself relies heavily on violence?"
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