Kara Walker's Reading List

"I see why and how it has informed a huge component of contemporary culture."

"She takes some big literary swings there. Loved it."

"I decided to relisten to the audiobook recently because my friend June Leaf reminded me about the skinning part."

"Her short story "Girl" — for being curt, concise and deeply human."

""My Garden (Book)" has helped me to understand what it means to plant and grow and what such activities might mean in a postcolonial sense."

"I loved (and still love) Zilpha Keatley Snyder's "The Egypt Game""

"E.L. Konigsburg's "Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth," which had the one character I most identified with, a Black girl (Jennifer) who claimed to be a witch, as I also did."

"I spent my time in class reading Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" under my desk. I think I finished the book before I was caught, though."

"I read George Eliot's "Middlemarch" a few years ago and although there were moments where I got lost in the language, I loved the book."