Surge Celebrates Book Lover’s Day 2019
In celebration of National Book Lover’s Day, we recently asked the team at the Surge Institute to provide some of their favorite books they’d like to recommend to our community.
The prompt that was was given was “what are some titles that have impacted you at the head, heart, and soul?” Here are there answers!
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz
God Don’t Like Ugly, Mary Monroe
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Malcolm X
Heavy, Kiese Laymon
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor
Dear Martin, Nic Stone
Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko
Second Wind, The Memoirs of an Opinionated Man, Bill Russell
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson
A Dissident Voice, Dr. Antonia Darder
The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon
We Should all be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the School Cafeteria, Beverly Tatum
Subtractive Schooling, Angela Valenzuela
Ain’t No Makin’ It, Jay MacLeod
I Wish I Had a Red Dress, Pearl Cleage
Black Betty, Walter Mosley
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
In Search of Satisfaction, J. California Cooper
Mama Day, Gloria Naylor
My Soul To Keep, Tananarive Due
Beyond Positive Thinking, Dr. Robert Anthony
The Code of the Extraordinary Mind, Vishen Lakhiani
Linden Hills, Gloria Naylor
The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
Voices from Another Place: A Collection of Works from a Generation Born in Korea and Adopted to Other Countries, Susan Soon-Keum Cox, Editor
“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.” — Toni Morrison
