Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century
By: Daisy Rubiera Castillo
3.83
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
María de los Reyes Castillo Bueno (1902–1997), a black woman known as “Reyita,” recounts her life i…
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1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By: Junot Díaz
3.89
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghet… read more
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"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"It's never the changes we want that change everything."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"I might have no one in the world, but at least I’m free."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2. Survival in Auschwitz
By: Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf
4.33
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Ausch… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- school
- nonfiction
"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"Qualcuno, molto tempo fa, ha scritto che anche i libri, come gli esseri umani, hanno un loro destino, imprevedibile, diverso da quello che per loro si desiderava e si attendeva."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
3. Day
By: Elie Wiesel , Anne Borchardt
3.79
Format: 109 pages, Paperback
"Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man." --The New York Times Bo… read more
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"I was lying. I would have to lie. A lot. She was ill. It's all right to lie to sick people."-Elie Wiesel, Day
"I thought he was talking about my grandmother. I didn't want to see her. I knew she had died - of thirst, maybe - and I was afraid she wouldn't be as I remembered her. I was afraid she wouldn't have …"-Elie Wiesel, Day
"...why should God be allied with death? Why should He want to kill a man who succeeded in seeing him? Now, everything became clear. God was ashamed. God likes to sleep with twelve-year-old girls. And…"-Elie Wiesel, Day
4. Dawn (The Night Trilogy #2)
By: Elie Wiesel , Frances Frenaye
3.66
Format: 320 pages,
Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-contr… read more
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5. The House on Mango Street
By: Sandra Cisneros
3.31
Format: None pages,
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schoo… read more
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6. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
By: Angela Y. Davis , Maryse Condé , Richard Philcox
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
"Stunning...Maryse Conde's imaginative subversion of historical records forms a critque of contempo… read more
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7. A Mercy
By: Toni Morrison
4.51
Format: 192 pages,
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch… read more
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8. No-No Boy
By: John Okada
4.33
Format: 242 pages,
John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Co… read more
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9. The Book of Unknown Americans
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.17
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, heartbreaking page-turner destined for breakout status: a novel that gives voice to mil… read more
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10. Kindred
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindredhas become a cornerstone of black Americ… read more
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11. A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more
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12. L'Exil Selon Julia
By: Gisèle Pineau
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
Difficile de vivre dans cette Ile-deFrance inhospitaliere, au coeur des annees 60, lorsqu'on est un… read more
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13. Krik? Krak!
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new writers. … read more
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14. Ceremony
By: Leslie Marmon Silko
3.82
Format: 160 pages,
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more
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15. The Reformatory
By: Tananarive Due
4.47
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sen… read more
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16. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
17. How Much of These Hills Is Gold
By: C Pam Zhang
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the… read more
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"Burial is just another recipe"-C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold
"Ba dies in the night, prompting them to seek two silver dollars."-C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold
18. A Sister to Scheherazade
By: Assia Djebar
3.48
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Isma and Hajila are both wives of the same man, but they are not rivals. Ismaolder, vibrant, passio… read more
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19. Everything Inside
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vivi… read more
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20. The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories
By: Roch Carrier
3.88
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The title story, about the Quebec boy who is shipped a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater by mistake, has … read more
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21. Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century
By: Daisy Rubiera Castillo
3.83
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
María de los Reyes Castillo Bueno (1902–1997), a black woman known as “Reyita,” recounts her life i… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- school
- read for school
- college
- nonfiction
- womens
- latin american history
