Keep Your Brain Alive

I have always loved to read. As a little girl my parents could not keep enough books in the house to make me happy. I would read anything. As I grew older, the subject matter of what I chose to read changed, but the desire for knowledge remained the same. Throughout college I read so many books that taught me more than I even comprehend. These are just a few of those I have read (and those I have on my list to read) and enjoyed. By no means is this a complete list. Feel free to email me with any questions you may have.

Books I've Read

Fiction

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe - Jane Wagner
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest - Ken Kesey
By the Light of My Father's Smile - Alice Walker
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
The Venetians Wife - Nick Bantock
Sula - Toni Morrison
1984 - George Orwell
The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
Bastard Out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Indian Killer - Sherman Alexi
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
The Bacchae - Euripides
Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker
Sandman Comic Series - Neil Gaiman
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Writing Women's Lives - Susan Cahill, editor

Non-Fiction

Freak Like Me - Jim Rose
Braindroppings - George Carlin
Sleepers - Lorenzo Carcaterra
A Safe Place - Lorenzo Carcaterra
Two or Three Things I Know For Sure - Dorothy Allison
Small Sacrifices - Ann Rule
The Last Time I Wore A Dress - Daphne Scholinski
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
When Rabbit Howls - The Troops for Truddi Chase
Our Guys - Bernard Lefkowitz
I Never Told Anyone - Ellen Bass & Louise Thornton, editors
Surviving the Silence - Charlotte Pierce-Baker
Food of the Gods - Terence McKenna
Plain Fat Chick Seeks Guy Who Likes Broccoli - Kathy Hinckley, collector
Aphrodite's Daughters - Jalaja Bonheim
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down - Alice Walker
Keep Your Brain Alive - Lawrence C. Katz, PhD & Manning Rubin
Everyday Use - Alice Walker
Warrior Marks - Alice Walker
Talking Back - bell hooks
Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister - Susan Starr Sered
Popol Vuh - Dennis Tedlock
The Complete Kama Sutra - Alain Danielou
In Search of our Mother's Gardens - Alice Walker
Living by the Word - Alice Walker
Decline Into Darkness - Gay Oakes
The Vagina Monologues - Eve Ensler
The Journal Project - Dana Putnam, Dorothy Kidd, Elaine Dornan & Patty Moore, editors
Sybil - Flora Rheta Schreiber
Dust Tracks on a Road - Zora Neale Hurston
Wouldn't Take Nothing for my Journey Now - Maya Angelou
Awakenings/A Leg to Stand On/The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (and other clinical tales)/Seeing Voices - Oliver Sacks
No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvinile Court - Edward Humes
Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Album
Lies My Teacher Told me: Everything your American History textbook got Wrong - James Loewen
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools - John Kozol

Poetry

Her Blue Body Everything We Know - Alice Walker
The Best Loved Poems of the American People

Books I Will Read Soon

Fiction

The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
Slow Learner - Thomas Pynchon
Native Son - Richard Wright

Non-Fiction

The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
What Women Do in Wartime - Meredith Turshen & Clotilde Twagiramariya, editors
Women Who Run With the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD
Merchants of Misery: How Corporate American Profits from Poverty - Michael Hudson
Black Boy - Richard Wright
A Peoples History of the United States: 1942 to Present - Howard Zinn
Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology - Howard Zinn
CENSORED: The News that Didn't Make the News: The Years Top 25 Censored News Stories - Peter Phillips & Project Censored
Live from Death Row - Mumia Abu-Jamal
Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment inside the U.S. Meat Industry - Gail A. Eisnitz

Poetry

Ain't I A Woman? - Illona Linthwaite
Sappho's Lyre - Diane J. Rayor, translator