James Baldwin, THE FIRE NEXT TIME
Langston Hughes, poetry and prose
Steven King, Different Seasons, "The Body"
Cormac McCarthy: BLOOD MERIDIAN, THE ROAD, ALL THE PRETTY HORSES
Sonia Nazaerio, ENRIQUE'S JOURNEY
George Orwell, 1984, ANIMAL FARM
Aldous Huxley, BRAVE NEW WORLD
Flannery O'Connor, short stories
John Steinbeck, OF MICE AND MEN, THE GRAPES OF WRATH
Pat Conroy, THE GREAT SANTINI, THE LORDS OF DISCIPLINE, THE WATER IS WIDE, THE PRINCE OF TIDES
William Faulkner, ABSALOM, ABSALOM, THE HAMLET, "The Bear," "A Rose for Emilu
Toni Morrison, BELOVED, THE BLUEST EYE, SULA, THE SONG OF SOLOMON
Colson Whitehead, THE NICKEL BOYS, GHE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
James McBride, THE HEAVEN AND EARTH GROCERY STORE, DEACON KING KONG, THE MIRACLE OF ST. ANNA, THE GOOD LORD BIRD