The Bucket List

Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston
the movie showed a young girl in the quest to finding herself. Similar to the awakening the main character was older before she found who she was. I want to read this book because of the changes and things left out of the movie

Go Tell It on the Mountain  By James Baldwin
this book is a semi autobiography of his life. It examines the roles of christian church in african american community This book would be a really intersting book to read from what i've read about it.


The Autobiography of Malcolm X By Malcomn X and Alex Haley
this book takes a look into the life of malcomn x and the start of his invovlement with the nation of islam.Alex haley was able to even include his assanation by his once friends.


Push By Sapphire
this was adapted into the film precious. it showed the tragic life of a girl. This book is said to be way more graphic than the movie. Kind of scary but worth a read.

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
This is a stunning tale of self-discovery that follows the lives of a black family living in Michigan.
 The majority of the narrative revolves around Milkman, the first black child born at Mercy Hospital, and the son of a prominant and wealthy businessman. after reading reviews i believe this would be good book to read about. Toni Morrison is very poetic so t might be easier to read.

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines
The reader is given a unique outlook on the status of African Americans in the South, after World War II and before the Civil Rights Movement. Indeed, we see a Jim Crow South through the eyes of a formally educated African American teacher who often feels helpless and alienated from his own country.

Paradise By Toni Morrison
The novel tells the story of the tension between the men of Ruby, Oklahoma and a group of women who lived in a former covent seventeen miles away. I think its different kind of book because their in a convent but I think it stille would be good

The Bluest Eye by toni morrison
 The story is about a year in the life of a young black girl, named Pecola, who develops an inferiority complex due to her eye and skin appearance in Lorain, Ohio, against the backdrop of americas Midwest as well as in the years following the Great Depression