Book Recommendations

I was going through some old papers and came across this booklist that I meant to give to someone but never did. These are some books I have read in the past and that I recommend:

• “The Subject and Power” (essay) by Michel Foucault
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
• The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
• After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
• A Mad Desire to Dance by Elie Wiesel
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Jazz by Toni Morrison
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Crank by Ellen Hopkins
• The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• Simon and the Homosapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
• Mudbound by Hilary Jordan
• Song of Solomon by Ton Morrison
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
• Gone Fishin’ by Walter Mosley
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Swing Time by Zadie Smith
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirosky

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