Tiya Miles's Reading List

"Hopkins was a literary path-breaker, working as a periodical editor and publisher and as a race-issues novelist when these roles were barely open to women."

"Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's exquisite history, "A Midwife's Tale," has been my model since graduate school."

"Walter Johnson's penetrating history of the U.S. domestic slave trade, "Soul by Soul," … long impressed me as prime examples of the historian's craft."

"Seth Rockman's intricate labor history of late-18th-century and 19th-century Baltimore, "Scraping By," have long impressed me as prime examples of the historian's craft."

"It was, and is, a pivotal work of Black environmental writing."

"My favorite author was Madeleine L'Engle, whose books I came to know through the wonderful gift of a fifth-grade teacher, who read "A Wrinkle in Time" aloud to our class. I devoured that series."

"The title I read and reread was "A Ring of Endless Light," which featured a love affair with dolphins."

"It took me at least two attempts to finish Toni Morrison's "Beloved" … which are now among the books that have had the greatest influence on my thinking."

"It took me at least two attempts to finish … Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower," which are now among the books that have had the greatest influence on my thinking."