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My top 101 books I would read again… given the time .
1.The Holy Bible
2; The Oxford Dictionary
3. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
4.Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
5.The Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Samuel Clemens
6. The Autobiography of Malcom X as told by Alex Hailey
7. The Adventure of Hackberry Finn by Mark Twain
8.Lolita by Vladmir Nabakov
9. Hamlet by William Shakespear
10. The Kybalion
11. Engaging Minds by Brent Davis
12. The Confession of Nat Turner by William Styron
13.To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
14. Going to Meet the Man by James Bladwin
15. The Black Jacobins by C. .L.R James
16. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
17. Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
18. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
19.They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima
20.Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
21. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
22.The Stories of Vladmir Nabokov by Valdmir Nabokov
23. A Rasin in the Sun by Lorriane Hansberry
24. Fence by August Wilson
25. Mama’s Girl by Veronica Chambers.
26. Krik Krak, by Edwidge Danticat
27. Brown Girl Brownstone by Paule Marshal
28. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
29. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
30. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
30. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
31.Brave New World by Adolf Huxley
32.A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
33. A Biref History Seven Killings by Marlon James
35.Betwen the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
36. Metu Neter Volume 1by Ra Un Nefer Amen
37. Notes of a Hanging Judge by Stanley Crouch
38.Talking that Talk by Geneva Smitherman
39. Faces at the Bottom of the Well by Derick Bell
40. Black Robes White Justice by Judge Bruce White
41. Forty Million Dollar Slave by William Rhoden
42. The Miseducation of the Negro by Carter G Woodson
43.The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks by Randall Robinson
44. The Rationale Male by Rollo Tomasi
45. The Game of Life and How to Play it by Florence Shinn
46. History of the People of Trinidad and Tobago by Eric Williams
47. The Limits of Medicine by Ivan Illich
48. John Updike; The Collected Stories.
49.Miguel street by V.S., Naipaul
50.Souls of Black Folk by W.E.D Dubois
51. The Game by Neil Strauss
52. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
53. The Power of Now By Eckhart Tolle
54. The Poetry of Derrick Wallcot by Derick Wallcott
55. From Columbus to Castro by Dr. Eric Wiliams
56. Beloved by Toni Morrison
57. The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop
58.Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
59. Nickle Boy by Colson Whitehead
60. A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelly
61. A Long Way Gone by Ishamel Beah
62 .Bhagavad Gita
63. Trees of Life by Max Adams
64. The Life and Love of the Forest by Lewis Blackwell
65. Teacher Man Frank McCourt
66. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
67.Native Son by Richard Wright
68. Denmark Vessey by David Robertson
69. The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
70. The 50th Law by Robert Green and Fit
71. A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle
72. Tree of Life by Max Adams
73. Forest Lewis Blackwell
74.The English Teacher’s Companion Jim Burke
75. Why Reading Books Still Matter Martha C. Pennigton
76 Zen in the Art of Writing Ray Bradbury
77. The Invention of White Race, Volume 1, Racial Oppression and Social Control by Thedore W. Allen
78.In the Middle by Nancie Atwell
79. Nickle Boy by Colson Whitehead
80. The Picture of Dorian by Gray Oscar Wilde
81. The Piano Lesson by August Wison
82.Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
83. Monter by Walter Dean Myers
84. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
85. Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
86. The Giver by Lois Lowry
87. Pale Fire by Vladmir Nabakov
88. I know Why the Cage Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
89.Speak by Laurie Anderson
90.The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams
91. The Story of the Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane -Poole
92.Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
93. Civilization and Its Discontent by Sigmund Freud
94. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
95. Civilization of Barbarism by Cheaha Anta Diop
96. The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
97. The Isis Papers by Dr Frances Cress Wesling
98. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
99. Narrative of the Life of Federick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
100. Manhood in the Making by David Gilmore
101 Dante Inferno by Dante Alighieri
