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Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
American Dream by Normal Mailer Every book by Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou The complete works of Shakespeare The Cantebury Tales (in Middle English, not modern English) |
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Women's Room Middlemarch |
| I kept it simple in college because I was always taking 18-21 credits to graduate early. Agatha Christie all the way! |
This is an awesome book. |
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Meridian by Alice Walker
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| These are great, thank you! Keep them coming! |
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The Social Transformation of American Medicine
Plagues and Peoples A People's History of the United States A Theory of Justice (Rawls) |
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Anything by Jonathan Kozol
The Spirit Catches you and you fall Down. |
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The Grimke Sisters of South Carolina
Up From Slavery vs. The Souls of Black Folk (discuss) Roll, Jordan, Roll |
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Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman
Life on the Mississippi (these weren't for school, but during that time, for fun) |
That was gooooooood. Did you read the book his sister recently wrote about how they grew up and what happened after he was gone? It was beautiful (even though by the end I really disliked the sister/author). |
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O Pioneers and My Antonia by Willa Cather
Testament of Youth by Vera Britten The Way We Never Were by Stephanie Coontz Poetry -- Willliam Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens were standout Just some stuff that immediately comes to mind. |
Thank you! Just ordered The Way We Never Were - exactly the kind of reading I'm looking for. |
| The Way We Never Were is a great book. I also liked Where Have All the Children Gone? |
| Invisible Man Ralph Ellison |