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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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By the Book: Jason Reynolds (2022)

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

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong · Buy on Amazon
"which is remarkable"
Cover of Glory
NoViolet Bulawayo · 2022 · Buy on Amazon
"which is genius"
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."
Raymond Queneau · Buy on Amazon
"I reference it all the time whenever I want to shake up my style or laugh at all the ways one might say the same thing."
Cover of Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987 · Buy on Amazon
Walter Dean Myers · Buy on Amazon
Laurie Halse Anderson · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Maus
Art Spiegelman · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Fun Home
Alison Bechdel · Buy on Amazon
Jacqueline Woodson · Buy on Amazon
Tiffany D. Jackson · Buy on Amazon
Ann Petry · Buy on Amazon
"Maybe it was timing. Maybe it was the story. But it broke me open and showed me the possibility of the form."
Max Lucado · Buy on Amazon
"to have this item with hundreds of tabs in it because he'd reread it every year is incredibly special."

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