Read: Erin’s Book List1

So, I realize that I am pretty nerdy, however, I love myself.  All my friends know that I am an avid book reader so they always come to me and ask my opinion on books.  Instead of writing them individually to everyone, I just thought why not write a huge list of everything on my list.  Some of these books I have read, and others are just on my list to read this year.  The list are a list of books I want to read and some of them I have already.

If you want to see the list that I did last year of my favorite books I read during the year, you can check those here.  Yes, this is a little extra, and someone told me this means my book look exceeds 4,000 dollars (not true) and others tell me my book list is why I am single (this is true) but whatever.

Also, since this list is so huge, I thought why not make a printable PDF version for everyone just in case you want to put this in your planner and take it on the go or what not.  Lastly, I am starting a book club so if you’d like to be in that, you can email me at bella@rawemag.org.  The way that I am setting up the book club also means you do not have to live in The Bay Area, so yes, if you live in Nebraska or somewhere crazy far like South Africa (don’t know why that was my destination of choice) you too can be in the club.

Currently: I am reading Manning Marable’s The Reinvention of Malcolm X, such a great read thus far.  I’m one of those people who reads leisure books like I am in school still so you can only imagine the number of highlights I have in the book.

Download PDF here 

1.      Wax Poetics Anthologies
2.      1Q84
3.      The Business of Hip-hop
4.      Coffee with Buddha – Joan Duncan
5.      Is Marriage for White People- Ralph Banks
6.      How Georgia became o’keefe
7.      Graffiti L.A
8.      Rubbish – Jake Chessium
9.      Rules of Civility – Amor Towles
10.     Next to Love – Ellen Feldman
11.     Miss Timmin’s School for Girls
12.     In The Sea, There are Croccidles
13.     The Oriental Wife- Evelyn Toynton
14.     The Lantern – Deborah Lawarenson
15.     Turn of Mind – Alice Laplante
16.     Room – Emma Donghue
17.     The Seat of The Soul – Gary Zukav
18.     I’d Know You Anywhere – Laura Lippman
19.     The Submissions – Amy Waldman
20.     Start from Happy – Patricia Marx
21.     Easily Amused – Karen McQuestion
22.     It’s Bigger Than Hip-hop – MK Asante Jr.
23.     Zeitun
24.     Shanki Girls
25.     Dreams of Girls
26.     Hiding in Hip-Hop Torrance Dean
27.     Hip-hop Matter – Craig Watkins
28.     The Perfect Gentleman: A Muslim Boy Meets The West
29.     Post Blackness – Toure
30.     Losing My Cool – Thomas Chatterton Williams
31.     A Room of Ones Own
32.     Playdate Thelma Adams
33.     The Vagina Monologues
34.     Big Girl Small – Rachel Dee Wooksin
35.     Thoughts without Cigarettes
36.     Cannon- Bhiku Bodhi
37.     The Art of Dreaming – Carlos Casteneda
38.     A Taste of Power Elaine Brown
39.     The Girl with Three Legs
40.     Blues Legacy & Black Feminism
41.     Black Genius – Spike Lee
42.     Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to The Black Mecca of Black America
43.     The Politics of Black Liberation
44.     Nigger- Dick Gregory
45.     Purple Cow – Seth Godin
46.     Celestine Prophecy
47.     Open City
48.     Think & Grow Rich – Napeolean Hill
49.     Don’t Bring Home A White Boy
50.     How To Be Black
51.     Cinderella Ate My Daughter
52.     Day of Honey
53.     A Visit From The Goon Squad
54.     Someday This Will Be Funny
55.     Big Machine – Victor Lavelle
56.     Untold Story – Monica Ali
57.     Ready Player One- Ernest Cline
58.     House of Holes- Nicholson Baker
59.     Manning Marable Biography
60.     Blues People
61.     Miles Davis Biography
62.     Clawing At The Limits of Cool
63.     Charles Mingus Autobiography
64.     All About The Dress- Vicky Tiel
65.     A Taste of Salt
66.     Steve Jobs Autobiography
67.     The Teaching of Don Juan
68.     The Secret Life of Bees
69.     The Joy of Living
70.     The Quran
71.     Room Full of Mirrors : The Biography of Jimi Hendrix
72.     Brothers (& Me) A Memoir of Loving & Giving
73.     The Psychology of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
74.     Watergate
75.     Lit by Mary
76.     Miles Davis – The Definite Biography by Ian Carr
77.     The Active Side of Infinity
78.     Women, Culture & Politics
79.     How To Change The World: Social Entrepreneurs & The Power of New Ideas
80.     Me Talk Pretty One Day
81.     The Councils of Dad
82.     The Blue Sweater- Jacqueline Novogratz
83.     What Matters – David Elliot
84.     Black Noise – Tricia Rose
85.     Mind to Mind
86.     Manchild of The Promise Land
87.     The Finding of Third Eye
88.     The Year of Gadfly – Jennifer Miller
89.     Is Everyone Hanging Out Without me?
90.     The Letter all your Friends Have Written You