Jaki Shelton Green - What I'm Reading This Summer

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Check out Jaki’s recommended reading for children.

Jaki's Select Reading List

A Mercy (Toni Morrison)
Sag Harbor (Colson Whitehead)
The Saffron Kitchen (Yasmin Crowther)
Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Ahab's Wife (Sena Jetter Naslund)
Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)
Disgrace (JM Coetzee)
Intruder in the Dust (William Faulkner)
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Mosquito (Gayl Jones)
The Shack (William P. Young)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
The School of Essential Ingredients (Erica Bauermeister)
Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson)
Eight Men (Richard Wright)
The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
Sugar Cage (Connie May Fowler)
The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
Love (Toni Morrison)
Identity (Milan Kundera)
Parable of the Talents (Octavia E. Butler)
Brother, I'm Dying (Edwidge Danticat)
Felicia's Journey (William Trevor)
Finding Nouf (Zoe Ferraris)
Song Yet Sung (James McBride)
A Broom of One's Own (Nancy Peacock)
A million Nightingales (Susan Straight)
Snow (Orhan Pamuk)
Family (J. California Cooper)
Life is Short But Wide (J. California Cooper)
The Book of Night Women (Marlon James)
The Creative Habit (Twyla Tharp)
We are The Ones We've Been Waiting For (Alice Walker)
Night Talk (Elizabeth Cox)
A Whole New Life (Reynolds Price)
Mary Reilly (Valerie Martin)
Property (Valerie Martin)

Last Update: August 21, 2009