“Thomas Hardy, full of his own instructions to damaged mankind, would have loved this book.”
Novelist John Irving's review of Tar Baby in the New York Times, March 29, 1981
Our most recommended books
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison -
In Your Hands
by Brian Pinkney (Illustrator) & Carole Boston Weatherford -
To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War
by Tera Hunter -
Fledgling
by Octavia Butler -
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison -
A Black Women's History of the United States
by Daina Berry & Kali Gross
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