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They Just Keep Giving
Classics to devour (again) this summer.
By James Baldwin
Escape to Greenwich Village in the 1950s.
By Octavia E. Butler
Bask in the genius of the late, great Octavia Butler.
Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad
By Bebe Moore Campbell
The touching story of the bond between father and daughter that’s strengthened during summers.
By Paulo Coelho
Following one’s dreams seems like a reality for anyone, including a young shepherd in this well-crafted literary fable.
By W.E.B. Du Bois
Is an explanation really necessary?
By Gabriel García Márquez
An undeniable sweeping novel for epic-lovers.
By Terry McMillan
Love is beautiful but not easy in this non-romanticized romance.
By Toni Morrison
Magical, memorable and Morrison.
By William Shakespeare
How many can really serve oh-no-he-didn’t responses like the original king of drama?
By Sister Souljah
The street-lit book that other street-lit books wish they were.
Felicia Pride is the book columnist for The Root and the founder of BackList. Her most recent book is The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop’s Greatest Songs.
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I'm reading this collection of short stories now. It's refreshing and quite insightful to understand how blacks folks from other spaces view America.
Thanks Felicia for this tremendous list.
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I went through the list and I was glad to see Another Country by Baldwin, Song of Solomon by Morrison, and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez. I would put all three on my favorites list.
Right now I am reading A Mercy by Morrison and I just finished Dark Bargain by Lawerance Goldstone. Goldstone's book is about the writing of the Constitution and what "bargains" were part of the deal. I really liked this book because he put all the actors of this drama on stage in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. It just so happen that I finished Annette Gordon-Reeds, The Hemingses of Monticello not long ago which gave another dimension to the Dark Bargain.
I also have Eduardo Galena's Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone. I saw an interview on C-SPAN. His interviewer compared his work to Garbriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of of Solitude.
the baldwin choice,'another country', is great, however note part of it takes place in france. thehistorical significance is notable as well. baldwin completed the work while staying in william styron's guest house in conn. from autumn of 1960 till summer of 1961. at the same time styron was crafting, 'confessions of nat turnner." the period cemented their relationship.it's a perfect point in history for black americans to revisit this proflic writer given the blue smoke and mirrors manny are being trated to.
"An Elegy for Easterly" was very, very good. I bought it simply because of the Coetzee quote regarding the author and was far from disappointed. On that matter, anything by Coetzee is worth reading...
"A free man of color" Great writing, set in 1830's New Orleans...This book and the rest of the series got me reading fiction again!
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver