Look out library, thanks to the work I’ve been involved with in realigning instructional guides for The Collaborative for Educational Services and the Department of Youth Services…I’ve got a new reading list.  Some of these titles will be re-visits and other are pages I want to start turning. In no particular order, here’s my new reading list…

Classic Literature

• Shakespeare

• Raisin in the Sun

Literary Nonfiction

• Night

• Richard Wright’s Black Boy- pick a chapter

• Coming of Age in Mississippi-

• When I was Puerto Rican

Global Literature

• Chronicle of a Death Foretold

• Things fall apart

• Chinese Cinderella

• Master Harold and the Boys-Athol Fugard

• The Namesake

Informational Text

• Stiff & Guip by Mary Roach

• Nickel & Dimed- Barbara Ehrenreich

• Into the wild

• Into thin air

• Perfect storm

• Fast food nation

• Salt by Mark Kurlansky

• Guns, Germs and Steel- Jared Diamond

• The Botany of Desire- Michael Pollan

• Outliners and Blink – Malcom Gladwell

• The Jim Crow

Contemporary Literature

• Their eyes were watching God

• The curious incident of a dog in night time

• Me talk pretty one day

• The absolutely true diary of a part time indian

• The lone ranger and tonto fistfight in heaven

• How the Garcia girls lost their accent

• Pygmalion

• Richard Blanco- One Today Inaugural Poem

• Leslie Newman October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard