Eddie Glaude Jr's Reading List

Glaude, the author of “Begin Again,” says that “No Name in the Street” (1972) “tries to offer an account of what happened between Little Rock, Dr. King’s assassination and the emergence of Black Power. Trauma and wound saturate his sentences, and his memory fails him in places. It is a masterpiece at the level of form and substance.”

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By the Book: Eddie Glaude Jr (2021)

NYT By the Book column (2021-07-22).

Source: www.nytimes.com

A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape

W. Ralph Eubanks · Buy on Amazon

"In W. Ralph Eubanks's wonderful book "A Place Like Mississippi," he mentions Gilbert Mason, a local physician in Biloxi who led a series of "wade-ins" at Biloxi beaches."

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward · Buy on Amazon

"It is a novel that feels completely of our time and, without strain or pretense, carries forward the power of our literary tradition. I am attracted to the economy of her prose — words never get in the way of the intensity of the emotion."

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy · Buy on Amazon

"I can't seem to let go of the character, Arabella Donn."

Black Midas

Jan Carew · Buy on Amazon

"I love the rhythm of his sentences."

Seeing

Jose Saramago · Buy on Amazon

"It is this jaw-dropping allegory about how quickly democracies can turn into something much more sinister — especially when ordinary people dare to make their positions known."

The Price of the Ticket

James Baldwin · Buy on Amazon

"Start from the beginning and read it straight through. One can see the continuity of theme across his writings and how the changing conditions of the country shift the accents."

No Name in the Street

James Baldwin · Buy on Amazon

"Baldwin referred to the book as "mighty." He tries to offer an account of what happened between Little Rock, Dr. King's assassination and the emergence of Black Power. Trauma and wound saturate his sentences... It is a masterpiece at the level of form and substance."

Beloved

Toni Morrison · 1987 · Buy on Amazon

"My favorite book to assign, besides "The Fire Next Time," is Toni Morrison's novel "Beloved." I have been teaching both books for over 20 years."

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin · 1963 · Buy on Amazon

"My favorite book to assign, besides "The Fire Next Time," is Toni Morrison's novel "Beloved." I have been teaching both books for over 20 years."

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison · 1952 · Buy on Amazon

"I wrote a general exam on Ellison's "Invisible Man" and the French theorist Michel de Certeau."

The Museum of Innocence

Orhan Pamuk · Buy on Amazon

"I read Orhan Pamuk's "The Museum of Innocence" with a friend and we found communion in how we were both unsettled by the novel."

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner · 1930 · Buy on Amazon

"I remember reading a long, meandering Faulkner sentence in "As I Lay Dying" on a flight to South Africa. I paced up and down an airplane."

Breath, Eyes, Memory

Edwidge Danticat · Buy on Amazon

"I read an Edwidge Danticat sentence in "Breath, Eyes, Memory" that carried so much emotion, with so few words, that I screamed an obscenity."

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin · Buy on Amazon

"A first-edition signed copy of James Baldwin's "Go Tell It on the Mountain." Now I am obsessed with finding signed first editions of all of his work."

Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev · Buy on Amazon

"My favorite antihero is Bazarov in Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons." Quintessentially modern character with an abiding faith in science, but love tore him up in the end."

The Lord of the Rings

J. R. R. Tolkien · Buy on Amazon

"I loved J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings.""

The Lord of the Rings

J. R. R. Tolkien · Buy on Amazon

"I loved J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings.""

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