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Must-Read Classics by People of Color - Page 3

For the purposes of this list, I've defined a classic as a book that's at least 50 years old. Some of these classics by people of color are well-known and others are known only to scholars of the period they're from. There are novels, plays, poetry, and nonfiction from around the world—something for everyone.
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God's Bits of Wood
God's Bits of Wood
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Ambitious Adventure (Cheikh Hamidou Kane)
Ambitious Adventure
82
Cheikh Hamidou Kane
A House for Mr. Biswas (V.S. Naipaul)
A House for Mr. Biswas
83
V.S. Naipaul
The Woman in the Dunes (Kobo Abe)
The Woman in the Dunes
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Kobo Abe
Gwendolyn Brooks: Selected Poems (Gwendolyn Brooks)
Gwendolyn Brooks: Selected Poems
85
Gwendolyn Brooks
A Backward Place (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)
A Backward Place
86
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The Interpreters (Wole Soyinka)
The Interpreters
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Wole Soyinka
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm X)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Malcolm X
The River Between
The River Between
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Efuru (Flora Nwapa)
Efuru
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A Handful of Rice (Kamala Markandaya)
A Handful of Rice
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Kamala Markandaya
The Doctor's Wife (Sawako Ariyoshi)
The Doctor's Wife
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Sawako Ariyoshi
Jubilee
Jubilee
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The Time of the Hero
The Time of the Hero
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Black Rain
Black Rain
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Houseboy (Ferdinand Oyono)
Houseboy
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Season of Migration to the North
Season of Migration to the North
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Silence (Shūsaku Endō)
Silence
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Thousand Cranes Yasunari Kawabata
Thousand Cranes Yasunari Kawabata
100
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