My Book List: Suggestions For You All1

Everyone who knows me knows that I read a lot.  My goal this year since it’s my first full year out of college was to read 60 books for the whole year.  Thus far, I am 43 books deep, and I thought I would share with you guys my suggestions since people have been asking me which books I have read.  I have also at the end of the post will write out the books that I still want to read, plus tell you here– you must read Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist,” Khaled Hosseni’s “The Kite Runner” & “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” Mischina Wolfe’s “I’m Down” and of course, The Autobiographies of Malcolm X, Assata Shakur and “The Color of Water” by James McBride.

1. I Mix What I Like: A Mixtape Manifesto- Jared Ball
2. Normal Gets You Nowhere- Kelly Cultrone
3. Super Rich- Russell Simmons
4. If You’re Going To Cry Go Outside- Kelly Cultrone
5. The 50th Law- Robert Greene & 50 Cent (started in 2010, re-read and finished in 2011)
6. The 5 Languages For Singles- Gary Chapman (judge me not, it was very well written)
7. Dead Emcee Scrolls- Saul Williams
8. Mocha Manual To Turning Your Passion Into Profit- Kimberly Seals-Allers
9. The Autobiography of Theolonious Monk
10. The 4 Agreements- Don Miguel Ruiz
11. The Conversation – Hill Harper
12. Can’t Stop Won’t Stop- Jeff Chang
13. Angry Black White Boy- Adam Mansbach
14. A Belle In Brooklyn- Demetria Lucas
15. One Day It Will All Make Sense- Common
16. Decoded- Jay-Z
17. Aleph-Paulo Coelho (sucks)
18. The Huffington Post Blogging- Arianna Huffington
19. Men, Women, and Children- Chad Kultgen
20. Communion- Bell Hooks
21. Edie
22. Popism
23. The Help
24. Barefoot in Baghdad
25. How To Rap: The Art and Science- Paul Edwards
26. Check The Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop- Brian Coleman
27. It’s All Relative: Two Families, Three Dogs, 34 Holidays and 50 Boxes of Wine (A Memior)- Wade Rouse
28. Lovemarks – Kevin Robert
29. Chasing Cool- Noah Kerner and Gene Pressman
30. Outliers
31. The Tipping Point
32. 48 Laws of Power- Robert Greene
33. A Visit From The Goon Squad- Jennifer Egan
34. Furious Love – Sam Kashner
35. Easily Amused- Karen McQuestion
36. Secret Daughter- Shilpi Somaya
37. The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne
38. Childhood- Graf Leo Tolstoy
39. Love and Friendship- Jane Austen
40. A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
41. Memory of Love- Aminatta Forna
42. Angels & Demons- Dan Brown
43. The Seat of the Soul- Gary Zukav