Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Must-Read Books, 2023, Part 2

Here are a few more books I hope to read from cover to cover this year:

1. Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City by Nelson Johnson (Plexus Publishing, 2002). (The basis for the television series.)

2. Langston's Salvation: American Religion and the Bard of Harlem by Wallace D. Best (New York University Press, 2017).

3. The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II, 1941-1967: I Dream a World by Arnold Rampersad (Oxford University Press, 1988).

4. Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie Glaude, Jr. (Crown, 2020).

5. The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Are Middle-Class Blacks Angry? Why Should America Care? by Ellis Cose (HarperCollins, 1993).

6. The Devil in a Blue Dress: An Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley (Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 2002, paperback; originally published by Norton, 1990).

7.The Woman in the Window: A Novel by A. J. Finn (Morrow, 2018).

8. The Cold Millions: A Novel by Jess Walter (HarperCollins, 2020).

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