Look out library, thanks to the work I’ve been involved with in realigning instructional guides for The Collaborative for Educational Services and the Department of Youth Services…I’ve got a new reading list. Some of these titles will be re-visits and other are pages I want to start turning. In no particular order, here’s my new reading list…
Classic Literature
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Shakespeare
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Raisin in the Sun
Literary Nonfiction
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Night
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Richard Wright’s Black Boy- pick a chapter
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Coming of Age in Mississippi-
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When I was Puerto Rican
Global Literature
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
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Things fall apart
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Chinese Cinderella
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Master Harold and the Boys-Athol Fugard
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The Namesake
Informational Text
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Stiff & Guip by Mary Roach
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Nickel & Dimed- Barbara Ehrenreich
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Into the wild
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Into thin air
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Perfect storm
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Fast food nation
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Salt by Mark Kurlansky
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Guns, Germs and Steel- Jared Diamond
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The Botany of Desire- Michael Pollan
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Outliners and Blink – Malcom Gladwell
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The Jim Crow
Contemporary Literature
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Their eyes were watching God
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The curious incident of a dog in night time
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Me talk pretty one day
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The absolutely true diary of a part time indian
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The lone ranger and tonto fistfight in heaven
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How the Garcia girls lost their accent
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Pygmalion
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Richard Blanco- One Today Inaugural Poem
- Leslie Newman October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard
