Books, Glorious Books -- My Picks

Today we covered African-American book clubs and took a look at James Baldwin, the penultimate pick of Farrah Jasmine Griffin's six picks of most influential black writers ever.

So, what am I reading or what do I like? I am SO glad you asked! ;-)

Here are a few of my favorites... including some young adult books.
YA:
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction:
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Wild Seed by Octavia Butler
Kindred by Octavia Butler

Literary Novels (a B R O A D category!):
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Erasure by Percival Everett
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus
Terminal Velocity by Blanche McCrary Boyd
Invisble Man by Ralph Ellison
Corregidora by Gayl Jones
John Dollar by Marianne Wiggins
Cane by Jean Toomer
Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys

Poetry:
The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni
On the Bus With Rosa Parks by Rita Dove

Other Great Works:
The Riverside Shakespeare
The Prince by Machiavelli

Enjoy and share your picks with me!

Farai Chideya

6:02 PM ET | 08-30-2007 | permalink

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