The Woozy Essential Reading List:

Af-Am Autobiography

1. 12 Years A Slave - Solomon Northrup
2. My Bondage And My Freedom - Frederick Douglass
3. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself. Vol. I. - Olaudah Equiano
4. The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley
5. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs
6. Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor
7. When I Was a Slave (collected narratives)- Norman R. Yetman
8. Revolutionary Suicide - Huey P. Newton
9. Pimp - Iceberg Slim
10. Radio Free Dixie - Timothy Tyson

Af-Am Historical Non-Fiction

11. American Slavery As It Is, Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses - Theodore Dwight Weld
12. Lift Up Thy Voice - Mark Perry
13. From Slavery to Freedom - John Hope Franklin
14. Bury The Chains - Adam Hochschild
15. On the Laps of Gods - Robert Whitaker
16. Freedom Summer - Bruce Watson
17. Bearing the Cross - David J. Garrow
18. The Negro Church in America - E. Franklin Frazier
19. The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson
20. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 - W.E.B. Du Bois
21. The Negro Church in American - E. Franklin Frazier

Af-Am Essays / Perspectives / Stories

22. The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
23. The Miseducation of the Negro - Carter G. Woodson
24. The Ways of White Folks - Langston Hughes
25. Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington
26. The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. Du Bois
27. Notes of a Native Son - James Baldwin
28. The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
29. Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery - Na'im Akbar
30. Understanding Race, Ethnicity & Power - Elaine Pinderhughes

Af-Am Fiction

31. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
32. Black Boy - Richard Wright
33. Beloved - Toni Morrison
34. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
35. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
36. A Raisin In The Sun - Lorraine Hansberry
37. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Ernest J. Gaines
38. Dopefiend - Donald Goines

Non-Af-Am Must Reads

Kids/Young Adults

39. The Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell
41. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
42. The Pearl - John Steinbeck

Spirituality

43. Joseph Campbell - The Hero's Journey
44. Awakening the Buddha Within - Lama Surya Das
45. Roots and Wings - Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
46. Essays on Zen Buddhism - D.T. Suzuki
47. The New Testament
48. The Lakota Way - Joseph M. Marshall III

History / Biography

49. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer
50. Conquest - Hugh Thomas
51. The Last Jew of Treblinka - Chil Reichman
52. Agents of Repression - Churchill & Vander Wall
53. A Peoples History of the United States - Howard Zinn
54. Gotham, A History of New York - Burrows & Wallace
55. The Long Haul - Myles Horton
56. Young Stalin - Simon Sebag Montefiore
57. Sitting Bull - Ernie La Pointe
58. Einstein, A Biography - Walter Isaacson
59. Memory of Fire (Trilogy) - Eduardo Galeano
60. In the Heart of the Sea, Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - Nathaniel Philbrick

Fiction

61. Outlaw - Miguel Pinero
62. Ecotopia - Ernest Callenbach
63. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
64. The Silmarrillon - J.R.R. Tolkien
65. The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin
66. The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
67. Of Time and the River - Thomas Wolfe
68. The Odyssey - Homer
69. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
70. The Divine Comedy - Dante Aligheri
71. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
72. Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
73. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
74. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Philosophy / Methods / Other

75. Level of Knowing and Existence - Harry L. Weinberg
76. The Feminine Mystique - Betty Freidan
77. Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy - Marx & Engles
78. The American Philosopher - Giovanna Borradori
79. Reshaping the Psychoanalytic Domain - Judith M. Hughes
80. Selections from the Prison Notebooks - Antonio Gramsci
81. Teaching Needy Kids - Siegfried Engelmann
82. Thought and Language - Les S. Vygotsky
83. Experience & Education - John Dewey
84. Reinventing Freire - Antonia Darder
85. We Make the Road by Waking - Paulo Freire, Miles Horton
86. The Pedagogy of Hope - Paulo Freier
87. Getting the Love You Want - Harville Hendrix
88. Super Memory, Super Student - Harry Lorayne
89. Collected Poems - W.H. Auden

The Woozy Essential and Auxiliary Book List

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