Literature is important to me.

When I was in elementary school I often blurred the edges of my world, exiting my parents' fights, which too often included me, by entering books.

Today I still enjoy literature; I am majoring in English at the University of California at Berkeley. Although my concentration is ethnic studies, I enjoy many types of writing.

I'll be adding descriptions to this list, as well as more books. If you would like to buy any of these books,
please visit Basil Blue's Bookstore.

And now, some books I've enjoyed:

African-American Literature

• Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
• Zami: A New Spelling Of My Name, by Audre Lorde
• Incidents In The Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs
• The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
• Beloved, by Toni Morrison
• Flight To Canada, by Ishmael Reed (who lives in Oakland, CA)
• The Third Life of Grange Copeland, by Alice Walker
• Corregidora, by Gayl Jones
• Native Son, by Richard Wright

• Storyteller, by Leslie Marmon Silko
• Dwellings, by Linda Hogan

• Maus I&II, by Art Spiegelman
• Night, by Elie Wiesel
• An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-43

Some Favorite Books by my Favorite Authors:

Dr. Seuss

• The Lorax
• One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
• You're Only Old Once
• How The Grinch Stole Christmas
• Horton Hears A Who
• The Sneetches and Other Stories
• Oh, The Places You'll Go!

• A Prayer For Owen Meany
• The Cider House Rules
• The World According To Garp
• The Hotel New Hampshire

• The Fountainhead
• The Virtue of Selfishness

• Breakfast of Champions (made me laugh until I hurt)
• Happy Birthday, Wanda June

• Othello
• The Merchant of Venice

• A Room Of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf
• Women Who Run With The Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD
• The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry
• It Did Happen Here: Recollections Of Political Repression In America
• The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
• The Pearl, by John Steinbeck

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