Bold the books you've read.
*Star the titles you own or you've read more than once.*
Italicize the books plan to read.
??Use question marks to indicate titles/authors you've never heard of??
Assata: An Autobiography--Assata Shakur
*The Autobiography of Malcolm X--Malcolm X/Alex Haley*
The Bondwoman's Narrative--Hannah Crafts/Henry Louis Gates
The Bluest Eye--Toni Morrison
Cane--Jean Toomer
??Cane River--Lalita Tademy??
*The Coldest Winter Ever--Sister Souljah*
The Color Purple--Alice Walker
??Crossing the Mangrove--Maryse Conde??
??Death and the King's Horseman--Wole Soyinka??
Devil in a Blue Dress--Walter Moseley
Dreams of My Father--Barack Obama
The Fire Next Time--James Baldwin
Fences--August Wilson
*Invisible Life—E. Lynn Harris*
Invisible Man--Ralph Ellison
??Joys of Motherhood--Buchi Emecheta??
Jubilee--Margaret Walker
??Kindred--Octavia Butler??
??Krik?Krak!--Edwidge Danticat??
*The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass--Frederick Douglass*
Mama--Terry McMillan
Manchild in the Promised Land--Claude Brown
Measure of Our Success--Marian Wright Edelman
The Mis-Education of the Negro--Carter G. Woodson
Native Son--Richard Wright
*Nervous Conditions--Tsitsi Dangarembga*
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word--Randall Kennedy
??Omeros--Derek A. Walcott??
Our Nig--Harriet E. Wilson
Race Matters--Cornel West
*A Raisin in the Sun--Lorraine Hansberry*
??72 Hour Hold--Bebe Moore Campbell??
*Sex Chronicles—Zane*
Sister Outsider--Audre Lorde
??So Long a Letter--Mariama Ba??
Soul on Ice--Eldridge Cleaver
*The Souls of Black Folks--W.E.B. Du Bois*
The Street--Ann Petry
*Their Eyes Were Watching God--Zora Neale Hurston*
Things Fall Apart--Chinua Achebe
??Thomas and Beulah--Rita Dove??
Up From Slavery--Booker T. Washington
*When and Where I Enter--Paula Giddings*
2 comments:
Peace! your Black History reading list is cool if Black History is restricted to slavery times. Ever consider reading books by authors not on America's favorite lists? And which takes a reader beyond slavery times in America?
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Ok, did you read past A Bondswoman's Narrative? Apparently, you haven't read many of these books.
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