I am a voracious reader. I love books and stories. Here are some of my favorite reads. Got a recommendation? Send it my way.
Fiction
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Sula by Toni Morrison
Meridian by Alice Walker
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
There There by Tommy Orange
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell
Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
Pines by Blake Crouch
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen
The River is Waiting by Wally Lamb
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson
Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
Non-Fiction
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and The Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward
Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan M. Metzl
Notes on a Native Son by James Baldwin
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
At The Dark End of the Street by Danielle L. McGuire
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
The Autobiography by Malcom X as told to Alex Haley
Original Sins: The (mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism by Eve L. Ewing
Know my Name by Chanel Miller
There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone