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Preschool
The Bible
Watchtower -
2nd to 3rd Grade
Presidential biographies -
4th to 5th Grade
Canterbury Tales (required but enjoyed)
Book series: Little House on the Prairie, Sweet Valley High, etc. -
6th to 7th Grade
Fantasy to include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Chronicles of Narnia (required summer reading and enjoyed) -
8th to 10th Grade
Immensely enjoyed all required reading--Outsiders, Where the Red Fern Grows, Lord of the Flies, etc. -
11th Grade
Hemingway, Hawthorne, but Twain did not resonate -
12th Grade
Not the classes but thank goodness for Shakespeare. -
Undergraduate Years
African-American studies non-fiction
Chinua Achebe
Maya Angelou
James Baldwin
Alice Walker
Jane Austen -
Graduate Years (1st round)
Fiction by African writers
Gloria Naylor
Paula Marshall -
Youngish Adulthood
Tananarive Due
Octavia Butler
John Grisham -
Seasoned Adulthood
Harry Potter series
Kristin Hannah (specifically "The Nightingale"
Jojo Moyes
Jane Austin (revisited when stressed)