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My Proposed Book List For January

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Loose Girl by Kerry Cohen
Dispatches From The Edge by Anderson Cooper
Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Swallow The Ocean by Laura M. Flynn
The Translator by Daoud Hari
Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan by Immaculee Ilibagiza
Not My Making by Margaret W. Jones
Passing It On by Yuri Kochiyama
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamotte
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audrey Lorde
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
Essays by Michel de Mantaigne,
Playing In the Dark by Toni Morrison
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose
The Road to Extrema by Bob Reiss
When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
Ake: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka
Isara: A Voyage around “Essay” by Wole Soyinka
The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier by Fray Servando Teresa de Mier
The Log From the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
The Same River Twice by Alice Walker
Night, Dawn, Day by Elie Wiesel
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams
Leaves of Grass by Walt Witman
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Wolf
The Site of Memory, In Inventing the Truth, The Art and Craft of Memoir by William Knowlton Zinsser