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BOOK LISTsyllabus |
- The books are divided into categories and some books fall into more than one category. This list gives you an idea of some of the books in the world which are famous and give important insights into the human experience. Any books written by these authors may be good to read. Remember, there are many other wonderful books not listed here. However, this may be a place to start.
- You will form a reading circle with two other people and then choose one book (or more) from this list which you and your group will read and share.
AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
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Alice Walker |
The Color Purple |
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Claude Brown |
Manchild in the Promised Land |
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Gloria Naylor |
The Women of Brewster Place |
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James Baldwin |
If Beale Street Could Talk |
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Malcolm X |
The Autobiography of Malcolm X |
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Margaret Walker |
Jubilee |
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Maya Angelou |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
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Ralph Ellison |
Invisible Man |
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Richard Wright |
Black Boy, Native Son |
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Toni Morrison |
Jazz, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved |
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Tony Cade Bambara |
Gorilla, My Love |
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James McBride |
The Color of Water |
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Lorraine Hansberry |
A Raisin in the Sun |
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August Wilson |
Fences |
ASIAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
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Amy Tan |
Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife |
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Gus Lee |
China Boy |
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Le Ly Hayslip |
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places |
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Maxine Hong Kingston |
The Woman Warrior, China Men |
JEWISH EXPERIENCE
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Amos Oz |
Where the Jackals Howl |
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Anne Frank |
The Diary of Anne Frank |
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Anzia Yezierska |
Bread Giver |
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Bernard Malamud |
The Fixer, The Assistant |
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Grace Paley |
The Little Disturbances of Man |
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Henry Roth |
Call It Sleep |
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Isaac Bashevis Singer |
The Slave |
LATINO/CARRIBEAN EXPERIENCE
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Carlos Fuentes |
The Old Gringo |
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Esmerelda Santiago |
When I Was Puerto Rican |
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
One Hundred Years of Solitude |
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Isabel Allende |
House of the Spirits |
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Jamaica Kincaid |
At the Bottom of the River, Annie John |
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Mario Vargas Llosa |
Aunt Julia and the Script Writer |
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Nicholsa Mohr |
In Neuva York |
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Oscar Hijuelos |
Our House in the Last World |
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Sandra Cisneros |
House on Mango Street |
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V. S. Naipaul |
Miguel Street |
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Ernesto Quinonez |
B odega Dreams |
NATIVE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
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Dee Brown |
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee |
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Leslie Marmon Silko |
Storyteller |
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Louise Erdrich |
Love Medicine |
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Michael Dorris |
A Yellow Raft on Blue Water |
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N. Scott Momaday |
The Way to Rainy Mountain, Ancient Child |
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Niehardt |
Black Elk Speaks, Almanac of the Dead |
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William Least Heat Moon |
Blue Highways |
AFRICAN EXPERIENCE
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Anatole Fugard |
My Children My Africa |
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Chinua Achebe |
Things Fall Apart |
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Kahlil Gibran |
The Prophet |
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Nadine Gordimer |
*Any book by her |
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Naguib Mahfouz |
The Whisper of Madness |
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Sembene Ousmane |
God's Bits of Wood |
AMERICAN CLASSICS
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Arthur Miller |
The Crucible, All My Sons |
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Ernest Hemingway |
The Old Man and the Sea |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
The Great Gatsby |
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Herman Melville |
Moby Dick |
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Isaac Asimov |
Foundation Trilogy (Sci Fi) |
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J. D. Salinger |
Catcher In The Rye |
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Jack London |
The Call of the Wild |
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John Steinbeck |
Grapes of Wrath |
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Kate Chopin |
The Awakening |
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Mark Twain |
Huckleberry Finn |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne |
The Scarlet Letter |
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Willa Cather |
My Antonia |
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William Faulkner |
Light in August |
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James Agee |
A Death in the Family |
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Jack Finney |
Time and Again |
EUROPEAN CLASSICS
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Albert Camus |
The Stranger |
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Aldus Huxley |
Brave New World |
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Anton Chekhov |
The Cherry Orchard |
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Charles Dickens |
A Tale of Two Cities |
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Charlotte Bronte |
Jane Eyre |
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Edmond Rostand |
Cyrano De Bergerac |
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Emile Zola |
Germinal |
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Emily Bronte |
Wuthering Heights |
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Euripedes |
Trojan Women, Medea |
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Franz Kafka |
The Trial |
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Crime and Punishment |
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George Eliot |
Mill on the Floss |
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George Orwell |
1984 |
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Gustave Flaubert |
Madame Bovary |
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Henrik Ibsen |
A Doll's House, An Enemy of the People |
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Herman Hesse |
Demian, Siddhartha |
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Ignazio Silone |
Fontamara, Bread and Wine |
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James Joyce |
The Dubliners |
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Jane Austin |
Pride and Prejudice |
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Leo Tolstoy |
Death of Ivan Ilyich |
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Mary Renault |
Bull From the Sea |
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Oscar Wilde |
Picture of Dorian Gray |
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Sophocles |
Oedipus Cycle, Antigone |
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Wilkie Collins |
The Moonstone, Woman In White |
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William Golding |
Lord of the Flies |
ADOLESCENT LITERATURE
Gloria Miklowitz
War Between The
Classes
Judy Blume
Are You There God? It's Me,
Margaret
Richard Peck
Ghosts I Have Been
Paul Zindel
The Pigman
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter Books
S.E. Hinton
The Outsiders
SPIRITUAL BOOKS
Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist
Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
Benjamin Hoff
The Tao of Pooh
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*Note: William Shakespeare is not included. If you wish to read one of his plays, let us know which one. Also, you are not limited to the choices on this list. We have suggestions for other book genres, such as young adult and teenage literature, which might be more suitable.
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MYSTERY GENRE - Some good authors
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Raymond Chandler |
Elmore Leonard |
Agatha Christie |
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Dashiell Hammett |
Dorothy Sayers |
Sara Paretsky |
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Martha Grimes |
Batya Gur |
Patricia Highsmith |
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Sally Kellerman |
Kinky Friedman |
Walter Mosley |
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Johnathan Kellerman |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
P.D. James |