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The following are books that have influenced Shannon greatly, and continue to inspire her as she develops her aesthetics and politics.
Alchemy of Race and Rights, Patricia Williams
Annotations, John Keene
An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
An Open Heart, The Dalai Lama
Another Country, James Baldwin
A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris
Because it is Bitter, and Because it is my Heart, Joyce Carol Oates
Because Why, Sarah Fox
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Birth Marks, Sandra Patton
Black Looks, bell hooks
Black Rain, Masuji Ibuse
Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon
Bloodchild and Other Stories, Octavia Butler
Borderlands/La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldua
Butting Out, Ananya Chatterjea
Cane, Jean Toomer
Corregidora, Gayl Jones
Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, Claudia Rankine
Drown, Junot Diaz
Feminism Without Borders, Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
Flash Fiction: Very Short Stories, James Thomas, Denise Thomas, and Tom Hazuka (eds.)
Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
Going to Meet the Man, James Baldwin
Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Jump and Other Stories, Nadine Gordimer
Kindred, Octavia Butler
Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto
Lolita, Vladamir Nabakov
Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neil
Longing to Tell, Tricia Rose
Lost in Translation, Eva Hoffman
Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich
Massacre of the Dreamers, Ana Castillo
MAUS I & II, Art Spiegelman
My Confederate Kinfolk, Thulani Davis
Native American Fiction, David Treuer
Native Son, Richard Wright
Native Stranger, Eddie Harris
No Exit, Jean Paul Sartre
Notebook of a Return to a Native Land, Aime Cesaire
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
Our Sister Killjoy, Ama Ata Aidoo
Outlaw Culture, bell hooks
Persepolis I & II, Marjane Strapiri
Playing in the Dark, Toni Morrison
Reservation Blues, Sherman Alexie
Salvation, bell hooks
Shadow and Act, Ralph Ellison
Skirt Full of Black, Sun Yung Shin
Simple Passion, Annie Ernaux
Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde
Small Island, Andrea Levy
So Far From God, Ana Castillo
Sula, Toni Morrison
Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone, James Baldwin
The Analects, Confucius
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Ayi Kwei Armah
The Book of Sarahs, Catherine McKinley
The Branch Will Not Break, James Wright
The Chosen Place, The Timeless People, Paule Marshall
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde, Audre Lorde
The Color of Wealth, Meizhu Lui, Barbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose Brewer, and Rebecca Adamson
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
The Forbidden Stories of Marta Veneranda, Sonia Rivera-Valdes
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Aimee Bender
The Good Negress, A.J. Verdelle
The Grace in Dying, Kathleen Dowling Singh
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
The Known World, Edward P. Jones
The Language of Blood, Jane Jeong Trenka
The Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
The Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh
The Mixquiahuala Letters, Ana Castillo
The Parable Series, Octavia Butler
The Street, Ann Petry
The Telling, Ursula LeGuin
The Toughest Indian in the World, Sherman Alexie
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Waiting for Godot, Sam Beckett
Winter Birds, Jim Grimsley
Woman Hollering Creek, Sandra Cisneros
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought, Beverly Guy-Sheftall (ed.)
ZenZele: A Letter to My Daughter, J. Nozipo Maraire
