SOME BOOKS TO LOOK FOR

*African or Caribbean material
**Books on Oprah's Book of the Month List

1. *A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
2. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
3. A Grain of Wheat – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
4. **A Lesson before Dying – Ernest J. Gaines
5. A Man of the People – Chinua Achebe
6. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
7. **Cane River – Lalita Tademy
8. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
9. **Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Allende
10. Farenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
11. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
12. *God’s Angry Babies – Ian G. Strachan
13. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
14. How Stella Got Her Groove Back – Terry MacMillan
15. **I Know This Much Is True – Wally Lamb
16. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
17. Interview with the Vampire – Ann Rice
18. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt
19. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
20. **The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
21. *The Chosen Place, the Timeless People – Paule Marshall
22. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
23. The Colour Purple – Alice Walker
24. **The Deep End of the Ocean – Jacquelyn Mitchard
25. *The Dragon Can’t Dance – Earl Lovelace
26. *The Farming of Bones – Edwidge Danticat
27. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
28. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
30. The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
31. The Little Prince – Antoine de St-Exupéry
32. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
33. **The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
34. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
35. **Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
36. **What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day – Pearl Cleage
37. *When Doves Cry – Keith Russell
38. **Where the Heart Is – Billy Letts
39. **White Oleander: A Novel – Janet Fitch
40. *Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys

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