Dr. Hodari’s “Recommended Reading” List
Enjoy this list of books that “do it” for author, Dr. Askhari Johnson Hodari
(revised January 2011)
Fiction
• 47 by Walter Mosley
• A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
• Cane by Jean Toomer
• Dark Matter: a Century of Speculative Fiction From the African Diaspora by Sheree R. Thomas
• Fledgling by Octavia Butler
• Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
• Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones
• Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Ray of Hope by Vanessa Davis Griggs
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• Sounder by William H. Armstrong
• Sula by Toni Morrison
• Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
• The Good House by Tananarive Due
• The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley
• The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-exupéry
• The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley
• The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
• The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
• The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Wild Seed by Octavia Butler
Nonfiction
• Assata: an Autobiography by Assata Shakur
• David Walker’s Appeal, in Four Articles by David Walker
• Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad by Betty Deramus
• Lifelines: The Black Book of Proverbs by Askhari Johnson Hodari and Yvonne McCalla Sobers
• Mad at Miles by Pearl Cleage
• Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy by Marcus Garvey
• Roots by Alex Haley
• Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson
• Testament of Hope: an Anthology of Speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by James Washington (Ed.)
Poetry
• 100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda
• 3000 Years of Black Poetry by Alan Lomax & Raoul Abdul
• Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton
• Homegirls andHand Grenades by Sonia Sanchez
• I’ve Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems by Sonia Sanchez
• The Black Poets by Dudley Randall
• The Book of Light by Lucille Clifton
• This Other World by Richard Wright
