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