Jason Reynolds's Reading List

“It has more to do with tone than anything else,” says the current National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Jason Reynolds, whose latest book is “Ain’t Burned All the Bright” (in collaboration with the artist Jason Griffin). “With a shift in tone, ‘Salvage the Bones’ might be a young adult novel. And that would make it different, certainly, but not a lesser work.”

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Books from On Being: Jason Reynolds — Imagination and Fortitude (2024)

Extracted via LLM (gemini-2.5-flash) from auto-captions of On Being (2024-09-26).

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Works by John Ashbery

John Ashbery · Buy on Amazon

"that's something that I think about the poet John Ashbury that was his whole thing right it's like I don't know what this means but if you put these two words together what does it make you feel right"

Works by James Baldwin

James Baldwin · Buy on Amazon

"my favorite Baldwin quote is the interior life is the real life right the interior life is the real life and the intangible dreams of a person may have a tangible effect in the world"

Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You

Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi · Buy on Amazon

"I wanted we we he and I both wanted to figure out how we could tap into the imagination of young people..."

Works by Myisha Cherry

Myisha Cherry · Buy on Amazon

"one of my best friends in the world Maisha Cherry she's a philosopher and she writes about the philosophy of anger the philosophy of Rage the philosophy of forgiveness and there is there's something theoretical and Theological about rage"

By the Book: Jason Reynolds (2022)

NYT By the Book column (2022-02-03).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong · Buy on Amazon

"which is remarkable"

A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving · Buy on Amazon

Glory

NoViolet Bulawayo · 2022 · Buy on Amazon

"which is genius"

Iggie's House

Judy Blume · Buy on Amazon

"I recently reread it and suddenly it feels even more … alive. It's not one of her most popular books, but when I think about the fact that it was published in 1970 and addresses white flight, I'm enamored by Blume's courage."