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Alice Walker's Reading List

The author, most recently, of the poetry collection “Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart” feels a duty to read about countries devastated by war: “The suffering, usually for the most vulnerable, never ends.”

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By the Book: Alice Walker (2018)

NYT By the Book column (2018-12-13).

Source: www.nytimes.com

The Road of Lost Innocence
Somaly Mam · Buy on Amazon
"I couldn't sleep after reading this book. I felt a duty to read it, however, and others like it, to know without forgetting."
Perfect Peace
Daniel Black · Buy on Amazon
"This incredible novel about a young boy in the Deep South who was raised until he was 8 as if he were a girl. A fantastic investigation of gender issues, large and small."
Cover of Mom & Me & Mom
Mom & Me & Mom
Maya Angelou · 2013 · Buy on Amazon
"This is my favorite Angelou book. It is revelatory about a life of high adventure with her completely tough, gun-toting, charming, fearless and seductive mother."
Who Asked You?
Terry McMillan · Buy on Amazon
"This novel is a rich celebration of mothers who have, in the age of crack cocaine, been forced to raise their own grandchildren. It is word perfect, sometimes hilarious, always honest."
The Coming
Daniel Black · Buy on Amazon
"In Daniel Black's extraordinary book The Coming, we have an unprecedented opportunity to be with ancestors who probably never dreamed a scribe would one day appear."
Gulliver's Travels
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"I was 11 when I read it and it encouraged me to believe the world was large, fascinating, and with incredibly interesting creatures in it!"
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates · Buy on Amazon
"I don't understand why Yates isn't read in every English class. I think he's much more interesting than either Hemingway or Fitzgerald."
Cover of Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell · Buy on Amazon
"Down and Out is hilarious, with a humor quite unexpected in the otherwise seemingly somber Brother Blair. I listen to it often when I want to laugh."
The Activist's Tao Te Ching
William Martin · Buy on Amazon

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