Beloved
Ranked #3 in Slavery, Ranked #5 in African American — see more rankings.
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Her new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement... more
Reviews and Recommendations
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Esi Edugyan I was shocked by the blunt force of its subject matter and its exquisitely torqued prose. It remains one of my most adored novels. (Source)
Bianca Belair @ylc130 I went to the library when I was in the 3rd grade and read Beloved... I remember being so confused and my Mama having to explain it to me... I later read it as an adult and it hit me completely different. GREAT BOOK! (Source)
Farah Jasmine Griffin Beloved was Morrison’s fifth novel. It’s a gripping story, inspired by a famous abolitionist case, the true story of a woman who runs away from slavery with her children, but when the slave catchers catch up with her, she kills one of her own and tries to kill the others, rather than returning them to slavery. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Beloved is ranked in the following categories:
- #15 in 11th Grade
- #82 in 12th Grade
- #15 in 16-Year-Old
- #82 in 17-Year-Old
- #82 in 18-Year-Old
- #36 in 20th Century
- #95 in AA
- #90 in Adulting
- #22 in African
- #33 in African American History
- #23 in American
- #26 in American Literature
- #26 in Americana
- #25 in Award-Winning
- #61 in Awarded
- #8 in Black Author
- #70 in Bucket List
- #38 in Buzzfeed
- #57 in Catalog
- #41 in Censorship
- #41 in Class
- #90 in Controversial
- #25 in Conversation
- #91 in Diverse
- #54 in Ghost
- #24 in Ghost Story
- #27 in Gilmore Girls
- #48 in Gothic
- #14 in Graduate School
- #89 in High School
- #35 in High School Reading
- #97 in Historical Fiction
- #73 in Important
- #64 in Justice
- #52 in Leather
- #72 in Life Changing
- #30 in Literary
- #72 in Literature
- #12 in Magical Realism
- #26 in Memory Improvement
- #85 in Modern
- #41 in Modern Classic
- #74 in Modern Fiction
- #81 in Modernism
- #35 in Motherhood
- #8 in Multiculturalism
- #32 in New York Times Bestseller
- #8 in Nobel
- #84 in Oprah
- #70 in Poster
- #16 in Postmodernism
- #12 in Pulitzer Prize
- #42 in Purple
- #28 in Racism
- #100 in Sad
- #26 in South
- #47 in Time
- #46 in Trauma
- #63 in Trigger Warning
- #18 in University
- #61 in Used
- #30 in Women
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