Jul. 9th, 2008 09:54 am
books/memes/books!
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toastykittenI like books. I like memes. These are two book memes I've seen popping around - the first one is for the BBC's Top 100 reads or something like that. The second is a reaction to the list and is mostly or exclusively on people of color and in different countries other than the UK and US. The instructions are the same for both: BOLD the titles you've read; ITALICIZE those you intend to read; and UNDERLINE those you loved. (As an aside, I generally comment on most stuff I've read.)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - could use a re-read, but then I am not excited by Jane Austen's stuff in general.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - I do love this series, although Tolkien needs an editor.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - Surprisingly, I've never read this despite being an English major. I'm not sure I ever want to read it.
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - Well, except for the last book. I got totally bored by the second to last book and I don't think Rowling's that great a writer.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - I don't know how much of it I've read, but I bet I know more than most churchgoers.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - Depressing.
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - Loved this series! The last book wasn't that great, but it was just such an awesome take on religion, Paradise Lost, etc.
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - I can't believe she made Jo marry some old professor.
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - I've read almost everything, I think. English major.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - A teacher gave this to me to read in 8th grade and was impressed when I finished it the next day. I loved it then, but I don't know if I'll like it upon re-read.
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - I liked Tender is the Night way better.
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - Yay, Douglas Adams!
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - I read this instead of reading 4 books for an English class assignment. God I was stupid. I forget what the main character's name was, but I hated him for being so stupid and wasting 500 pages of doing nothing. I think I have something against Russian novels, because I think they're all too damn long.
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -- I read these as an adult, so I wasn't that enamored of the series. The last book seriously pissed me off.
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - Hey, shouldn't this be with 33?
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - I am undecided about whether I should read this one or not.
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - WHAT? Yeah, right.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - I love Garcia Marquez!
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - I read this several times in college for various classes. What can I say, I took a lot of popular fiction classes. This one is pretty good - there's a lot of suspense and intrigue and I find it way more readable than Dickens.
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - I LOVE THIS SERIES. Even though parts of it are pretty racist.
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - This is a pretty grim feminist dystopia. I had to stop reading the news for a week afterwards. I am not pleased that Atwood refuses to admit she's a scifi writer, though. Suck it up!
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - For school. Hated it.
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
52 Dune - Frank Herbert - I should read this.
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - Bored except for the opening and ending.
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - I'm actually not sure if I read this one or not. I like Dumas' writing, though. He's pretty funny.
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie - Most of Rushdie is on my To-Read list.
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - Got bored until the end, I think. I don't really remember.
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - I reread this several times as a kid. I got fascinated by the descriptions of the moor.
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath - You know what? I think if she were alive today, she'd be writing for Jezebel.
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - Becky Sharp is the most awesome female character ever.
80 Possession - AS Byatt - I think I have this for a class but I never got around to reading it.
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - I was assigned this in second grade by a Chinese teacher who hated us kids talking in Chinese. I do love the book and think it's pretty awesome.
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- I've read most of them. Some of them are pretty racist.
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - I HATED having to read this novella for every single English class ever and always discussing it in a room full of people who weren't black. We'd also have to read Chinua Achebe's "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" and it would always end the same way: although Achebe had some good points, Conrad's not really racist. He's just writing in the context of his time! *sigh*
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - I really liked this book, but I haven't read it in forever.
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - Wouldn't this have been covered under Complete Works of Shakespeare?
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - Although this is Dahl's most popular book, I prefer his other work.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - I do love this series, although Tolkien needs an editor.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - Surprisingly, I've never read this despite being an English major. I'm not sure I ever want to read it.
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - Well, except for the last book. I got totally bored by the second to last book and I don't think Rowling's that great a writer.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - I don't know how much of it I've read, but I bet I know more than most churchgoers.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - Depressing.
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - Loved this series! The last book wasn't that great, but it was just such an awesome take on religion, Paradise Lost, etc.
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - I can't believe she made Jo marry some old professor.
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - I've read almost everything, I think. English major.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - A teacher gave this to me to read in 8th grade and was impressed when I finished it the next day. I loved it then, but I don't know if I'll like it upon re-read.
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - I liked Tender is the Night way better.
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - Yay, Douglas Adams!
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - I read this instead of reading 4 books for an English class assignment. God I was stupid. I forget what the main character's name was, but I hated him for being so stupid and wasting 500 pages of doing nothing. I think I have something against Russian novels, because I think they're all too damn long.
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -- I read these as an adult, so I wasn't that enamored of the series. The last book seriously pissed me off.
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - Hey, shouldn't this be with 33?
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - I am undecided about whether I should read this one or not.
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - WHAT? Yeah, right.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - I love Garcia Marquez!
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - I read this several times in college for various classes. What can I say, I took a lot of popular fiction classes. This one is pretty good - there's a lot of suspense and intrigue and I find it way more readable than Dickens.
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - I LOVE THIS SERIES. Even though parts of it are pretty racist.
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - This is a pretty grim feminist dystopia. I had to stop reading the news for a week afterwards. I am not pleased that Atwood refuses to admit she's a scifi writer, though. Suck it up!
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - For school. Hated it.
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
52 Dune - Frank Herbert - I should read this.
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - Bored except for the opening and ending.
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - I'm actually not sure if I read this one or not. I like Dumas' writing, though. He's pretty funny.
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie - Most of Rushdie is on my To-Read list.
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - Got bored until the end, I think. I don't really remember.
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - I reread this several times as a kid. I got fascinated by the descriptions of the moor.
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath - You know what? I think if she were alive today, she'd be writing for Jezebel.
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - Becky Sharp is the most awesome female character ever.
80 Possession - AS Byatt - I think I have this for a class but I never got around to reading it.
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - I was assigned this in second grade by a Chinese teacher who hated us kids talking in Chinese. I do love the book and think it's pretty awesome.
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- I've read most of them. Some of them are pretty racist.
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - I HATED having to read this novella for every single English class ever and always discussing it in a room full of people who weren't black. We'd also have to read Chinua Achebe's "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" and it would always end the same way: although Achebe had some good points, Conrad's not really racist. He's just writing in the context of his time! *sigh*
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - I really liked this book, but I haven't read it in forever.
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - Wouldn't this have been covered under Complete Works of Shakespeare?
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - Although this is Dahl's most popular book, I prefer his other work.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
1. The Face of Another by Kobo Abé
2. The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abé
3. The Box Man by Kobo Abé
4. Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abé
5. The Ruined Map by Kobo Abé
6. The Ark Sakura by Kobo Abé
7. Kangaroo Notebook by Kobo Abé
8. Live From Deathrow by Mumia Abu-Jamal
9. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - Been meaning to read this forever.
10. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
11. Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
12. The Dilemma of a Ghost by Ama Ata Aidoo
13. Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo
14. No Sweetness Here by Ama Ata Aidoo
15. Smoke Signals by Sherman Alexie - I've been meaning to read Alexie forever, and got even more intrigued when he uncovered that writer who was pretending to be Indian.
16. First Indian on the Moon by Sherman Alexie
17. 10 Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
18. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
19. Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie
20. Adventures of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
21. The Woman Who Owned the Shadows by Paula Gunn Allen
22. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
23. The Tales of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
24. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
25. In The Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
26. Bless Me Ultima by Rudolpho Anaya
27. La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa
28. Tahuri by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
29. Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara
30. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
31. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
32. Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes
33. For Nights Like This One: Stories of Loving Women by Becky Birtha
34. Lover's Choice by Becky Birtha
35. What We All Long For by Dionne Brand
36. Food and Spirits by Beth Brant
37. Ryddim Ravings by Jean Binta Breeze
38. The Fifth Figure by Jean Binta Breeze
39. The Threshing Floor by Barbara Burford
40. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler - I love anything Butler writes.
41. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
42. Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
43. Blood Child by Octavia E. Butler
44. Popo and Fifina by Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes
45. Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell
46. Black Ice by Lorene Carey
47. Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier
48. So Far from God by Ana Castillo
49. The Mixquiahuala Letters by Ana Castillo
50. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearle Cleage
51. Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
52. Free Enterprise: A novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant by Michelle Cliff
53. Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyng Cha
54. Devdas by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
55. The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt
56. The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt
57. The Conjure Women and The Conjure Tales by Charles W. Chesnutt
58. Donald Duk by Frank Chin - I didn't like this much, though.
59. Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon by Frank Chin
60. In Her I Am; Not Vanishing by Chrystos
61. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
62. Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
63. Segu by Maryse Condé
64. The Children of Segu by Maryse Condé
65. I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé
66. Desirada by Maryse Condé
67. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
68. Breath Eyes Memory by Edwidge Danticat
69. Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
70. Eu Nasci Uma Mulher Negra (I Was Born a Black Woman) by Benedita da Silva
71. Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
72. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
73. Hogg by Samuel R. Delany
74. Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
75. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany
76. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
77. Guests by Michael Dorris
78. Morning Girl by Michael Dorris
79. The Crown of Columbus by Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich
80. At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America by Philip Dray
81. Souls of Blackfolk by W.E.B Dubois
82. My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
83. The Living Blood by Tananarive Due
84. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas - Like I said, Dumas is funny!
85. The Sun, The Sea, A Touch of Wind by Rosa Guy Dutton
86. The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
87. The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
88. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich - Erdrich is a brilliant, lyrical writer.
89. The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
90. Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
91. A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines
92. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines - Read it for class.
93. Don't Take Your Love to Town by Ruby Langford Ginibi
94. Ego-Trippin' and Other Poems for Young People by Nikki Giovanni
95. Racism 101 by Nikki Giovanni
96. Pushing the Bear by Diane Glancy
97. Introducing... Sister NoBlues by Hattie Gossett
98. Potiki by Patricia Grace
99. Nigger by Dick Gregory
100. Up from Nigger by Dick Gregory
101. Callus on My Soul by Dick Gregory
102. The Epic of Sundiata by Mandika Griots
103. Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn - Read it for class, don't remember much except there was some controversy over perceived racism. Or was that Yamanaka?
104. Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
105. Mama Flora's Family by Alex Haley
106. Born Black, Born Palestinian by Suheir Hammad
107. Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton
108. In Mad Love and War by Joy Harjo
109. Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris
110. Locas by Jaime Hernandez
111. The Mambo Kings Sing Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
112. Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
113. Where We Stand: Class Matters by bell hooks
114. Brown Girl In The Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
115. Shell Shaker by LeAnne Howe
116. The Ways of White Folk by Langston Hughes
117. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
118. Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong
119. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - A lot of people tell me they couldn't get through the dialect, but I really liked it here. To me, it's a near-perfect book.
120. Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
121. Seth and Samona by Joanne Hyppolite
122. Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
123. Tangi by Witi Ihimaera
124. Woman Far Walking by Witi Ihimaera
125. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
126. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
127. The Rain God by Arturo Islas
128. The Black Jacobins by CLR James
129. Mi Revalueshanary Fren by Linton Kwesi Johnson
130. Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
131. Poem About My Rights by June Jordan
132. Dusk by F. Sionil Josè
133. The Cotillion by John Oliver Killens
134. Girl by Jamaica Kincaid
135. A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
136. Interpreter of the Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
137. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
138. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
139. Quicksand by Nella Larsen
140. Passing by Nella Larsen - This was such a sad novella.
141. Native Speaker by Changrae Lee
142. A Gesture Life by Changrae Lee - Annoyed me.
143. Aloft by Changrae Lee
144. Natif-natal by Félix Morriseau-Leroy
145. Plénitudes by Félix Morriseau-Leroy
146. Do Not Go Gently by Judith Smith Levin
147. Zami by Audre Lorde
148. Twilight in Jakarta by Mochtar Lubis
149. Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
150. Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall
151. Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall
152. Mother Tongue by Demitria Martinez
153. Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez
154. Memories of My Meloncholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
155. All I Asking for is my body by Milton Maruyama
156. Raj by Gita Mehtaj
157. The Pillar of Salt by Albert Memmi
158. Wild Ginger by Anchee Minn
159. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
160. Monkey King by Timothy Mo
161. Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo - I'm pretty sure I read this.
162. House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
163. The Ancient Child by N. Scott Momaday
164. The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
165. In the Bear's House by N. Scott Momaday
166. The Man Made of Words by N. Scott Momaday
167. Loving in the War Years by Cherríe Moraga
168. Richard trajo su flauta y otros argumentos by Nancy Morejon
169. My Place by Sally Morgan
170. Love by Toni Morrison
171. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
172. Beloved by Toni Morrison
173. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
174. The Easy Rawlings series (Devil in a Blue Dress, A Red Death, Black Betty, White Butterfly) by Walter Mosley
175. Walkin' the Dog by Walter Mosley
176. Always Outnumbered by Walter Moseley
177. Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
178. Turning Japanese by David Mura
179. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
180. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
181. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
182. Train Whistle Guitar by Albert Murray
183. Dis Poem by Mutabaruka
184. Child of Dandelions by Shenaaz Nanji
185. Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
186. The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
187. Blanche Cleans UP by Barbara Nealy
188. A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
189. A Quiet Life by Kenzaburo Oe
190. Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburo Oe
191. The Famished Road by Ben Okri
192. Incidents at the Shrine by Ben Okri
193. Stars of the New Curfew by Ben Okri
194. My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki
195. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
196. Gulf Dreams by Emma Perez
197. Fresh Girl by Jaira Placide
198. Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington and Nugi Garimara
199. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
200. The Negro of Peter the Great by Alexander Pushkin
201. The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall
202. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
203. The Sano Ichiro Mysteries series by Laura Joh Rowland
204. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
205. Midnight’s Children by Sir Salman Rushdie
206. The Rose Garden by Saadi
207. Push by Saphire
208. When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
209. Almost A Woman by Esmeralda Santiago
210. Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
211. Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
212. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
213. Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair
214. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
215. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
216. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikobu - I got through a quarter of it, and all the incest and child molestation really put me off.
217. The Black and White of It by Ann Allen Shockley
218. Loving Her by Ann Allen Shockley
219. Say Jesus and Come to Me by Ann Allen Shockley
220. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
221. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
222. Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka
223. Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
224. The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
225. The Crescent Moon by Rabindranath Tagore
226. Gora by Rabindranath Tagore
227. Relationships by Rabindranth Tagore
228. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
229. The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan - I think Amy Tan writes the same book over and over again.
230. The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
231. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
232. Let the Circle Be Unbroken Mildred D. Taylor
233. The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor
234. Faultline by Sheila Ortiz Taylor
235. Petals of Blood by Ngugi Wa Thiong`o
236. Devil on a Cross by Ngugi Wa Thiong`o
237. The Buru Quartet (This Earth of Mankind, Child of all Nations, Footsteps, House of Glass) by Pramoedya Ananta Toe
238. Living Pidgin by Lee Tonouchi
239. Swerve: Reckless Observation of a Post-Modern Girl by Aisha Tyler
240. Naked Ladies by Alma Luz Villanueva
241. Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Viramontes
242. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
243. Up from Slavery by Booker T Washington
244. The Kadaitcha Sung by Sam Watson
245. Sons for the Return Home by Al Wendt
246. The Wedding by Dorothy West
247. Blues Dancing by Diane McKinney Whetstone
248. The Intuitionist by Coleson Whitehead
249. Poems of Phillis Wheatley by Phillis Wheatley
250. Native Son by Richard Wright
251. Black Boy by Richard Wright
252. The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G Woodson
253. Na Han (Battle Cry) by Lu Xun
254. Selected Stories of Lu Hsun by Lu Xun
255. Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
256. Blu's Hanging by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
257. Heads By Harry by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
258. Name Me Nobody by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
259. Red Sorghum by Mo Yan
260. The Dahomean by Frank Yerby
261. The Girl From Storeyville by Frank Yerby
262. The Foxes of Harrow by Frank Yerby
Hmm...I thought I would have read much more from this list. Oh well, it looks like I'll have more stuff to seek out.
2. The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abé
3. The Box Man by Kobo Abé
4. Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abé
5. The Ruined Map by Kobo Abé
6. The Ark Sakura by Kobo Abé
7. Kangaroo Notebook by Kobo Abé
8. Live From Deathrow by Mumia Abu-Jamal
9. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - Been meaning to read this forever.
10. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
11. Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
12. The Dilemma of a Ghost by Ama Ata Aidoo
13. Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo
14. No Sweetness Here by Ama Ata Aidoo
15. Smoke Signals by Sherman Alexie - I've been meaning to read Alexie forever, and got even more intrigued when he uncovered that writer who was pretending to be Indian.
16. First Indian on the Moon by Sherman Alexie
17. 10 Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
18. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
19. Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie
20. Adventures of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
21. The Woman Who Owned the Shadows by Paula Gunn Allen
22. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
23. The Tales of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
24. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
25. In The Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
26. Bless Me Ultima by Rudolpho Anaya
27. La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa
28. Tahuri by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
29. Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara
30. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
31. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
32. Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes
33. For Nights Like This One: Stories of Loving Women by Becky Birtha
34. Lover's Choice by Becky Birtha
35. What We All Long For by Dionne Brand
36. Food and Spirits by Beth Brant
37. Ryddim Ravings by Jean Binta Breeze
38. The Fifth Figure by Jean Binta Breeze
39. The Threshing Floor by Barbara Burford
40. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler - I love anything Butler writes.
41. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
42. Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
43. Blood Child by Octavia E. Butler
44. Popo and Fifina by Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes
45. Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell
46. Black Ice by Lorene Carey
47. Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier
48. So Far from God by Ana Castillo
49. The Mixquiahuala Letters by Ana Castillo
50. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearle Cleage
51. Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
52. Free Enterprise: A novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant by Michelle Cliff
53. Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyng Cha
54. Devdas by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
55. The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt
56. The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt
57. The Conjure Women and The Conjure Tales by Charles W. Chesnutt
58. Donald Duk by Frank Chin - I didn't like this much, though.
59. Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon by Frank Chin
60. In Her I Am; Not Vanishing by Chrystos
61. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
62. Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
63. Segu by Maryse Condé
64. The Children of Segu by Maryse Condé
65. I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé
66. Desirada by Maryse Condé
67. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
68. Breath Eyes Memory by Edwidge Danticat
69. Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
70. Eu Nasci Uma Mulher Negra (I Was Born a Black Woman) by Benedita da Silva
71. Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
72. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
73. Hogg by Samuel R. Delany
74. Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
75. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany
76. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
77. Guests by Michael Dorris
78. Morning Girl by Michael Dorris
79. The Crown of Columbus by Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich
80. At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America by Philip Dray
81. Souls of Blackfolk by W.E.B Dubois
82. My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
83. The Living Blood by Tananarive Due
84. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas - Like I said, Dumas is funny!
85. The Sun, The Sea, A Touch of Wind by Rosa Guy Dutton
86. The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
87. The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
88. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich - Erdrich is a brilliant, lyrical writer.
89. The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
90. Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
91. A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines
92. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines - Read it for class.
93. Don't Take Your Love to Town by Ruby Langford Ginibi
94. Ego-Trippin' and Other Poems for Young People by Nikki Giovanni
95. Racism 101 by Nikki Giovanni
96. Pushing the Bear by Diane Glancy
97. Introducing... Sister NoBlues by Hattie Gossett
98. Potiki by Patricia Grace
99. Nigger by Dick Gregory
100. Up from Nigger by Dick Gregory
101. Callus on My Soul by Dick Gregory
102. The Epic of Sundiata by Mandika Griots
103. Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn - Read it for class, don't remember much except there was some controversy over perceived racism. Or was that Yamanaka?
104. Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
105. Mama Flora's Family by Alex Haley
106. Born Black, Born Palestinian by Suheir Hammad
107. Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton
108. In Mad Love and War by Joy Harjo
109. Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris
110. Locas by Jaime Hernandez
111. The Mambo Kings Sing Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
112. Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
113. Where We Stand: Class Matters by bell hooks
114. Brown Girl In The Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
115. Shell Shaker by LeAnne Howe
116. The Ways of White Folk by Langston Hughes
117. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
118. Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong
119. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - A lot of people tell me they couldn't get through the dialect, but I really liked it here. To me, it's a near-perfect book.
120. Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
121. Seth and Samona by Joanne Hyppolite
122. Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
123. Tangi by Witi Ihimaera
124. Woman Far Walking by Witi Ihimaera
125. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
126. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
127. The Rain God by Arturo Islas
128. The Black Jacobins by CLR James
129. Mi Revalueshanary Fren by Linton Kwesi Johnson
130. Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
131. Poem About My Rights by June Jordan
132. Dusk by F. Sionil Josè
133. The Cotillion by John Oliver Killens
134. Girl by Jamaica Kincaid
135. A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
136. Interpreter of the Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
137. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
138. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
139. Quicksand by Nella Larsen
140. Passing by Nella Larsen - This was such a sad novella.
141. Native Speaker by Changrae Lee
142. A Gesture Life by Changrae Lee - Annoyed me.
143. Aloft by Changrae Lee
144. Natif-natal by Félix Morriseau-Leroy
145. Plénitudes by Félix Morriseau-Leroy
146. Do Not Go Gently by Judith Smith Levin
147. Zami by Audre Lorde
148. Twilight in Jakarta by Mochtar Lubis
149. Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
150. Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall
151. Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall
152. Mother Tongue by Demitria Martinez
153. Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez
154. Memories of My Meloncholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
155. All I Asking for is my body by Milton Maruyama
156. Raj by Gita Mehtaj
157. The Pillar of Salt by Albert Memmi
158. Wild Ginger by Anchee Minn
159. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
160. Monkey King by Timothy Mo
161. Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo - I'm pretty sure I read this.
162. House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
163. The Ancient Child by N. Scott Momaday
164. The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
165. In the Bear's House by N. Scott Momaday
166. The Man Made of Words by N. Scott Momaday
167. Loving in the War Years by Cherríe Moraga
168. Richard trajo su flauta y otros argumentos by Nancy Morejon
169. My Place by Sally Morgan
170. Love by Toni Morrison
171. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
172. Beloved by Toni Morrison
173. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
174. The Easy Rawlings series (Devil in a Blue Dress, A Red Death, Black Betty, White Butterfly) by Walter Mosley
175. Walkin' the Dog by Walter Mosley
176. Always Outnumbered by Walter Moseley
177. Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
178. Turning Japanese by David Mura
179. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
180. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
181. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
182. Train Whistle Guitar by Albert Murray
183. Dis Poem by Mutabaruka
184. Child of Dandelions by Shenaaz Nanji
185. Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
186. The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
187. Blanche Cleans UP by Barbara Nealy
188. A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
189. A Quiet Life by Kenzaburo Oe
190. Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburo Oe
191. The Famished Road by Ben Okri
192. Incidents at the Shrine by Ben Okri
193. Stars of the New Curfew by Ben Okri
194. My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki
195. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
196. Gulf Dreams by Emma Perez
197. Fresh Girl by Jaira Placide
198. Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington and Nugi Garimara
199. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
200. The Negro of Peter the Great by Alexander Pushkin
201. The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall
202. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
203. The Sano Ichiro Mysteries series by Laura Joh Rowland
204. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
205. Midnight’s Children by Sir Salman Rushdie
206. The Rose Garden by Saadi
207. Push by Saphire
208. When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
209. Almost A Woman by Esmeralda Santiago
210. Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
211. Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
212. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
213. Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair
214. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
215. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
216. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikobu - I got through a quarter of it, and all the incest and child molestation really put me off.
217. The Black and White of It by Ann Allen Shockley
218. Loving Her by Ann Allen Shockley
219. Say Jesus and Come to Me by Ann Allen Shockley
220. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
221. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
222. Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka
223. Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
224. The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
225. The Crescent Moon by Rabindranath Tagore
226. Gora by Rabindranath Tagore
227. Relationships by Rabindranth Tagore
228. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
229. The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan - I think Amy Tan writes the same book over and over again.
230. The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
231. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
232. Let the Circle Be Unbroken Mildred D. Taylor
233. The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor
234. Faultline by Sheila Ortiz Taylor
235. Petals of Blood by Ngugi Wa Thiong`o
236. Devil on a Cross by Ngugi Wa Thiong`o
237. The Buru Quartet (This Earth of Mankind, Child of all Nations, Footsteps, House of Glass) by Pramoedya Ananta Toe
238. Living Pidgin by Lee Tonouchi
239. Swerve: Reckless Observation of a Post-Modern Girl by Aisha Tyler
240. Naked Ladies by Alma Luz Villanueva
241. Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Viramontes
242. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
243. Up from Slavery by Booker T Washington
244. The Kadaitcha Sung by Sam Watson
245. Sons for the Return Home by Al Wendt
246. The Wedding by Dorothy West
247. Blues Dancing by Diane McKinney Whetstone
248. The Intuitionist by Coleson Whitehead
249. Poems of Phillis Wheatley by Phillis Wheatley
250. Native Son by Richard Wright
251. Black Boy by Richard Wright
252. The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G Woodson
253. Na Han (Battle Cry) by Lu Xun
254. Selected Stories of Lu Hsun by Lu Xun
255. Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
256. Blu's Hanging by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
257. Heads By Harry by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
258. Name Me Nobody by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
259. Red Sorghum by Mo Yan
260. The Dahomean by Frank Yerby
261. The Girl From Storeyville by Frank Yerby
262. The Foxes of Harrow by Frank Yerby
Hmm...I thought I would have read much more from this list. Oh well, it looks like I'll have more stuff to seek out.