- Americanah: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Speak: Laurie Halse Anderson
- The Clique: Lisi Harrison
- Twilight: Stephenie Meyer
- About a Boy: Nick Hornby
- Rose Gold: Walter Mosley
- The Septembers of Shiraz:
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles: Thomas Hardy
- Pageboy: Elliot Page
- The Sound and the Fury: William Faulkner
- The Last King of Scotland: Giles Foden
- Trainspotting: Irvine Welsh
- Atonement: Ian McEwan
- Confessions of a Shopaholic: Sophie Kinsella
- The Little Friend: Donna Tartt
- The Book of Form and Emptiness: Ruth Ozeki
- Germinal: Emile Zola
- Oliver Twist: Charles Dickens
- The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency: Alexander McCall Smith
- Daring Greatly: Brene Brown
- Together: Vivek Murthy
- Big Magic: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Free Food for Millionaires: Min Jin Lee
- PUSH: Sapphire
- So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’All Don’t Even Know: Retta
- Bossypants: Tina Fey
- Yes Please: Amy Poehler
- It Could be Worse, You Could be Me: Ariel Levy
- Being Jewish: Ari Goldman
- Caramelo: Sandra Cisneros
- Crazy Brave: Joy Harjo
- She Had Some Horses: Joy Harjo
- Everything is Illuminated: Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Other Americans: Laila Lalami
- Swing Time: Zadie Smith
Tag: reading
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
What books do I want to read?
What books do you want to read?
Right now I am trying to finish a couple of books, one being Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the other being Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. I haven’t made much progress but I am determined to finish them. I haven’t finished Bleak House by Charles Dickens but I may need to start over because I don’t really remember the plot very well. There are also some books by an author named Daisaku Ikeda where he has dialogues with different global figures, so I want to get around to reading those as well. There are still a lot of books I want to explore and read that have been sitting on my shelf unread. I have mostly been watching a lot of movies and TV shows, so my book reading has been taking a back seat. I have mostly been doing a lot of Buddhist study, so I have been reading The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin a lot each day (it’s a book of letters that a Buddhist reformer named Nichiren Daishonin wrote to his followers during the 1200s.) I also want to read Emma because I checked out the film from the library but I love reading the book before seeing the movie, but I might just watch the movie even if I haven’t read the book yet because it’s due back to the library soon.
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