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kisha, The Clean Up Lady
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Feb 07, 2017 07:14PM

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The super big challenge. Can you read 26 books where either the Authors first or last name, or the title starts with each letter of the alphabet.
Example:
A- A nother Country by James baldwin
B-Sugar by B ernice Mcfadden
C-Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore C ambell
Ect...
Here's the catch...At least HALF should be African-American fiction.
Who thinks they can finish the whole alphabet? Sign up below.
Example:
A- A nother Country by James baldwin
B-Sugar by B ernice Mcfadden
C-Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore C ambell
Ect...
Here's the catch...At least HALF should be African-American fiction.
Who thinks they can finish the whole alphabet? Sign up below.

a. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
b. Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
c. The Wake of the Wind by J. California Cooper
d. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
e. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
f. Family by J. California Cooper
g. Good as Gone by Amy Gentry
h. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
I. American Street by Ibi Zoboi
j. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
k. Little Black Girl Lost by Keith Lee Johnson
l. Life of a Church Girl: When the Wolf Lives with Riding Hood by Melissa Davis
m. Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden
n. The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
o. Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
p. Push by Sapphire
q. The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
r. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
s. Sula by Toni Morrison
t. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
u. Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
v. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
w. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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y. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
z. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
I have continuously failed at this challenge lol but I'm gonna try and hopefully this year I read more than I did last year and that itself will be an accomplishment for me lol.
a. A brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James
b. Beast of No Nation
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j. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
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n. Nadifa Mohamed (Black Mamba Boy)
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a. A brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James
b. Beast of No Nation
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j. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
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b. Borkmann's Point by Håkan Nesser
c. Chinua Achebe, Chike and the River
d. Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether
e. Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
f. Family by J. California Cooper
g. The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura
h. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
I.In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
j. John Lewis, March: Book Two
k.Katie Kitamura, A Separation
l. John Lewis, March: Book One
m. Mia McKenzie, The Summer We Got Free
n. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
o. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
p.Passing by Nella Larsen
q. Quicksand by Nella Larsen
r. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
s.Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
t. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker
u. Unlucky Lottery by Håkan Nesser.
v. Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck
w. August Wilson, The Piano Lesson
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y. Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World
z. Zinzi Clemmons, What We Lose
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