Recs if you like Sonny's Blues...
Read Until You Understand
novels, poetry, literary criticism, and history books by Black authors referenced in Farah Jasmine Griffin’s Read Until You Understand; The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature — forming a type of Black literary canon
📓 Novelette : Stories that refuse to Overstay
A novel is a prose work typically above 40k words, though many fall between 60-100k. Anything between roughly 17k and 40k words is generally considered a novella, while works between about 7k and 17k words are classified as novelettes, with some flexibility ~
TL;DR - short stories with 7k-17k words. Get out of that slump.
Classic Short Stories
For the gurlies that want to read more classics but finish in a day
and all that jazz!
books about or inspired by jazz. includes memoirs, histories, biographies and fiction.
James Baldwin Book List
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: List
The Primary Works section of the Reading List of Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor
short stories to read before you’re outta time
Compiling short stories, micro fiction, novellas, and collections featured as singular titles.
Give me your bite sized, tender, horrifying, awe inspiring pieces of short fiction!!! (Got a rec? Drop a comment!)
Where To Start With: A Handy Guide by the Guardian
The first book from each of the authors profiled as part of the Guardian’s “Where to start with” series. https://www.theguardian.com/books/series/where-to-start-with
Each book represents the chosen entry point.
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