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Henry Louis Gates's Reading List

The scholar and host of the PBS series "Reconstruction," whose latest books are "Dark Sky Rising" and "Stony the Road," is a productive beach reader: "I read more during two months on the Vineyard … than I do the entire rest of the year."

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By the Book: Henry Louis Gates (2019)

NYT By the Book column (2019-03-28).

Source: www.nytimes.com

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Black Reconstruction in America
W. E. B. Du Bois · Buy on Amazon
"It's a tie between W. E. B. Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction" and Eric Foner's "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877.""
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution
Eric Foner · Buy on Amazon
"It's a tie between W. E. B. Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction" and Eric Foner's "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877.""
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Death and the King's Horseman
Wole Soyinka · Buy on Amazon
"The book I never tire of rereading is Wole Soyinka's tragedy "Death and the King's Horseman." "Death and the King's Horseman" is one of the greatest plays written in the 20th century."
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The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois · 1903 · Buy on Amazon
"I also read "The Souls of Black Folk," by W. E. B. Du Bois, every year."
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Song of Lawino
Okot p'Bitek · Buy on Amazon
"I have three favorite books that I don't believe are read anymore: "Song of Lawino," by Okot p'Bitek, "The Master of Go," by Yasunari Kawabata, and "Narcissus and Goldmund," by Hermann Hesse."
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The Master of Go
Yasunari Kawabata · Buy on Amazon
"I have three favorite books that I don't believe are read anymore: "Song of Lawino," by Okot p'Bitek, "The Master of Go," by Yasunari Kawabata, and "Narcissus and Goldmund," by Hermann Hesse."
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Narcissus and Goldmund
Hermann Hesse · Buy on Amazon
"I have three favorite books that I don't believe are read anymore: "Song of Lawino," by Okot p'Bitek, "The Master of Go," by Yasunari Kawabata, and "Narcissus and Goldmund," by Hermann Hesse."
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · Buy on Amazon
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Who We Are and How We Got Here
David Reich · Buy on Amazon
"David Reich's "Who We Are and How We Got Here," a brilliant new history of human evolution."

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