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Anita Hill's Reading List

Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 18 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.

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Favorite books (2023)

Favorite books recommended by Anita Hill, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/anita-hill-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Harold S. Kushner · Buy on Amazon

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

Stieg Larsson · Buy on Amazon

Cover of Blindness

José Saramago · Buy on Amazon

A Promised Land

Barack Obama · Buy on Amazon

Dorothy Wickenden · Buy on Amazon

Lupita Nyong’o (also rec’d by Misty Copeland ) · Buy on Amazon

"I’ve given this book as a gift to both adults and children. The story is inspiring, and the illustration [by Vashti Harrison] is magnificent."

The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln: A Novel

Stephen L. Carter · Buy on Amazon

The Other Black Girl

Zakiya Dalila Harris · Buy on Amazon

James McBride · Buy on Amazon

Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women’s Lives

Patricia Bell-Scott and Juanita Johnson-Bailey · Buy on Amazon

Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine · Buy on Amazon

The House of Spirits

Isabel Allende · Buy on Amazon

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose

Alice Walker · Buy on Amazon

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Ntozake Shange (also rec’d by Alice Walker ) · Buy on Amazon

Tayari Jones · Buy on Amazon

"Read it because it’s a moving story about sisterhood (I have 5 sisters, and, in addition, was a sister to 7 brothers) and friendship (I have friendships in profusion). I treasure both relationships. And read it because it’s beautifully written."

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson (also rec’d by Brené Brown & Richard Branson ) · Buy on Amazon

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