Fiction<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\nAchebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adichie, Chimamanda – Half of a Yellow Sun<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Butler, Octavia – Kindred<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Diaz, Junot – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel – One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Henriquez, Cristina – The Book of Unknown Americans<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ishiguru, Kazuo – Never Let Me Go<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lahiri, Jhumpa – Interpreter of Maladies<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mandel, Emily St. John – Station Eleven<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Miller, Madeline – Circe<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moore, Alan – Watchman series<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Morrison, Toni – The Bluest Eye<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Murakami, Haruki – Norwegian Wood<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Naipaul , V. S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
O\u2019Connor, Flannery – Short Stories<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Orange, Tommy – There There<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Percy, Walker -The Moviegoer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Roy, Arundhati – The God of Small Things<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seth, Vikram – A Suitable Boy<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Smith, Zadie – Swing Time<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Lord of the Rings series<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Weir, Andy – The Martian<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whitehead, Colson – The Nickel Boys<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wright, Richard – Native Son<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Non-fiction<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\nAlexander, Michelle – The New Jim Crow<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Baldwin, James – The Fire Next Time<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Broom, Sarah M – The Yellow House<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coates, T-Nehisi – Between the World and Me<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Diamond, Jared – Guns, Germs and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grann, David – Killers of the Flower Moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hillenbrand, Laura – Seabiscuit and\/or Unbroken<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kurlansky, Mark – Milk or Cod or Paper<\/p>\n\n\n\n
McPhee, John – anything – The Pine Barrens, Annals of the Former World, A Sense of Where You Are : A Profile of William Warren Bradley<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Miller, Chanel – Know My Name: A Memoir<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mukherjee, Siddhartha – The Gene: An Intimate History<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Obama, Michelle – Becoming<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prinstine, Mitch – Popular<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Robinson, JoAnn – Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Walker, Rebecca – Black, White and Jewish: An Autobiography of a Shifting Self<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Westover, Tara – Educated<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wollstonecraft, Mary – Vindication of the Rights of Women <\/p>\n\n\n\n
YA titles:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nAlbertali, Becky – Yes No Maybe So ; Simon vs the Homosapiens Agenda <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arden, Katherine – The Winternight Trilogy (The Bear and the Nightingale) <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bowman, Akemi – Starfish<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dessen, Sarah – The Truth About Forever<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Johnston, E. K. – The Inevitable Victorian Thing<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pan, Emily – The Astonishing Color of After <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rowell, Rainbow – Pumpkinheads <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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