Recs if you like Notes of a Native Son...
Lucy Dacus Recommendations 💛
Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.
Black Literary Fiction
Not exhaustive but literary fiction with Black American authors .
Will continue to update with time
Last updated 10.11.2025
Required Reading for the Human Race
Books to open your heart and mind to the experiences and realities of others; of the ones society has othered.
Oxford Reading List for English
Found this online - a reading list of a first year English course at Oxford University. Wanted to create this for my own enjoyment and figured someone else might like it too! I only added the fiction and poetry books and I also did not add any companions.
The last bit (from bottom up to Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway) are required reading - top half is recommended.
James Baldwin Book List
Authors Investigated by the FBI
Joan Didion's Book Recommendations
A reading list compiled by the author and shared in 2015.
The Ray Bradbury method
Where you read an essay, a poem, and a short story daily for 1000 days.
Interesting people's thoughts
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