Becky chats again with Dr. Don Holmes Professor at University of Pittsburgh. They discuss the books from his childhood that helped to form his love of reading as well as suggest great books by black authors.
All the books we mentioned:
The Martian | Andy Weir
Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist | Charles Brockden Brown
My Side of the Mountain | Jean Craighead George
T*Witches | H.B. Gilmour
Silas Marner | George Eliot
Frankenstein | Mary Shelley
The Known World | Edward P. Jones
The Color Purple | Alice Walker
The Third Life of Grange Copeland | Alice Walker
Corregidora | Gail Jones
An American Marriage | Tayari Jones
Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence | Robert G. Parkinson
Authors to read:
Phylis Wheatley
Tony Morrison
Gail Jones
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