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The Exorcist William Peter Blatty · 1971 · ★ 4.2 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The Exorcist is a 1971 horror novel by American writer William Peter Blatty. The book details the demonic possession of eleven-year-old Regan MacNeil, the daughter of a famous actress, and the two priests who attempt to exorcise the demon. Published by Harper & Row, the novel was the basis of a highly successful film adaptation released two years later, whose screenplay was also written and… Shares Community pick

All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy · 1992 · ★ 4.4 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Moderate *All the Pretty Horses* is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention. It was a bestseller, and it won both the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Along with *The Crossing* (1994), and C*ities of the Plain*… Shares Community pick

Sleeping Beauties Stephen King & Owen King · 2014 · ★ 3.7 · 944p · ≈ 31h · Moderate In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men? All around the world, something is happening to women when they fall asleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed, the women become feral and… Shares Community pick

In love & trouble Alice Walker · 1973 · 138p · ≈ 4h · Moderate The desires and fears of the American black woman are explored with compassion and understanding in these thirteen short stories. Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walker's power to depict black women-women who vary greatly in background yet are bound together. Dating back to the early 1970s and 1980s, respectively, these short stories cover the Pulitzer… Shares 1000blackgirlbooks, African American women, African Americans

Coming of Age in Mississippi Anne Moody · 1968 · ★ 4.5 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. In this now classic autobiography, she details the sights, smells, and suffering of growing up in a racist society and candidly reveals the soul of the black girl who had the courage to challenge it. The result is a… Shares African American Girls, 1000blackgirlbooks, African Americans

The house behind the cedars Charles Waddell Chesnutt · 1900 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "The House Behind the Cedars tells of John and Lena Walden, mulatto siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The drama that unfolds as they travel between black and white worlds constitutes a riveting portrait of the shifting and intractable nature of race in American life. This edition revitalizes a much-neglected masterpiece by one of our most important African-American… Shares Southern states, African American women, African Americans

Beloved Toni Morrison · 1987 · ★ 4.0 · 360p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend and imagination. It is the story--set in post-Civil War Ohio--of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in… Shares 1000blackgirlbooks, African American women, African Americans

Sula Toni Morrison · 1973 · ★ 4.1 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the… Shares 1000blackgirlbooks, African American women, African Americans

To Take B. Love · 2017 · 82p · ≈ 2h · Light iii, 72 pages ; 20 cm Shares African American women, African Americans

Mongrels Stephen Graham Jones · 2016 · ★ 3.9 · 330p · ≈ 11h · Moderate **A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy whose family lives on the fringes of society and struggles to survive in a hostile world that shuns and fears them.** He was born an outsider, like the rest of his family. Poor yet resilient, he lives in the shadows with his Aunt Libby and Uncle Darren, folk who stubbornly make their way in a society that does not… Shares Southern states

Passing by Samaria Sharon Ewell Foster · 1999 · 383p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares African American women, African Americans with this book.

The Black Door Velvet · 2007 · ★ 4.3 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "Ariel Vaughn is high powered attorney and a partner at her firm, dating one of the most eligible bachelors in New York City, who is also a powerful judge firmly on the political path. She's living the high life, but her sex life has hit a low point. Once a tiger in the sheets, his interest has cooled considerably, and she's wound so tight she's about to explode. But when a hot young escort… Shares African American women, African Americans

Angela Davis Angela Y. Davis · 1974 · ★ 3.5 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Her own powerful story to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor & conviction. The author, a political activist, reflects upon the people & incidents that have influenced her life & commitment to global liberation of the oppressed. Shares African American women, African Americans

Push Sapphire · 1996 · ★ 3.9 · 163p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and highly radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment… Shares African American Girls, African Americans

The haunted mesa William johnstone · 1987 · ★ 3.8 · 357p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The Haunted Mesa begins near a mesa so forbidding neither Indian nor white man chooses to live in its shadow. Summoned to this dark desert plateau by the desperate letter of an old friend, internationally renowned investigator of unexplained phenomena Mike Raglan finds himself slowly drawn into a world beyond the laws of man and nature, and learns the astonishing legacy of Anasazi. Shares Southern states

Dust tracks on a road Zora Neale Hurston · 1942 · ★ 4.1 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Moderate xii, 308, 16 pages : 21 cm Shares African American women, African Americans

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor · 1976 · ★ 3.9 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, it is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence. It is a story of physical survival, but more important, it is a story of the survival of the human spirit. And, too, it is Cassie's story -- Cassie Logan, an independent girl raised by a family for whom independence is primary, a family determined not… Shares Southern states, African Americans

The Help Kathryn Stockett · 2009 · ★ 4.5 · 476p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has… Shares Civil rights movements, African American women

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