Friday, September 05, 2008

Well, it's been almost a year since I last posted. I'm afraid this post will be nothing more than a list of books I've read since then. Perhaps, if I'm feeling ambitious later, I will update with a short blurb about each, but I doubt it.

Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Flight to Canada by Ishmael Reed
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
Passing by Nella Larsen
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
We Should Never Meet by Aimee Phan
A Gesture Life by Chang Rae Lee
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Edinburgh by Alexander Chee
No-No Boy by John Okada
Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
Blu's Hanging by Lois-Ann Yamanak
Roxana by Daniel Defoe
Turkish Embassy Letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
The Interesting Narrative by Olaudah Equiano
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
Kartography by Kamila Shamsie
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems by Agha Shahid Ali
An American Brat by Sidhwa Bapsi
The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

1 Comments:

Blogger Tayari Jones said...

Gina, thanks for putting Leaving Atlanta on your list. I am in such good company!

11:52 AM  

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