My reading history (as of 06/2019)

Before college, I didn't read books at all. Despite taking both AP Language and AP Literature in my junior and senior years of high school, I had never really read an entire 12-point font book; I was fortunate enough to be born in 1997, which made the internet readily available for me to look up synopses of the books I was required to read for class. Reading did not interest me in the slightest. When I came to college, this quickly changed. Recommended by my French professor in my freshman year, I read through Le Petit Prince from cover to cover and then I was hooked. In my college career, I've read over 100 books. I literally, went from 0 to 100.

Here are (most of) the books I've read; I was planning on placing a star next to the books I recommend, but that's about all of them:

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~2016~

• Le Petit Prince- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde

• Black Skin White Mask- Franz Fanon

• Wretched of the Earth- Franz Fanon

• A Dying Colonialism- Franz Fanon

• Season of Migration to the North- Tayeb Salih

• Devil on the Cross- Ngugi wa Thiong'o

• L'Ètranger- Albert Camus

• Animal Farm- George Orwell

• Purple Hibiscus- Chimamanda Adichie

• Women at Point Zero- Nawal El Saadawi

• Beloved- Toni Morrison

• Le Monde S'Effondre (Things Fall Apart)- Chinua Achebe

• God Dies by the Nile- Nawal El Saadawi

• All Strangers are Kin- Zora O'neall

• The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears-

• Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad

• Lolita- Vladamir Nabokov

• Sabriya- Ulfat Idilbi

• Understanding Asexuality- Anthony Begaert

• Nervous Conditions- Tsitsi Dangarembga

• Empire, Architecture, and the City- Zeyneb Çelik

• City of Oranges- Adam LeBor

• The Beautyful Ones are not yet Born- Ayi Kwei Armah

• Homegoing- Yaa Gyasi

• The Ethics of Teaching- Kenneth Strike

• Open City- Teju Cole

• Colonialism/Postcolonialism- Ania Loomba

• Lord of the Flies- William Golding

• L'Enfant Noir- Camara Laye

• The Great Arab Conquest- Hugh N. Kennedy

• In the Land of Magic Soldiers- Daniel Bergner

• The Brothers Karamazov- Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison

• Maroc, éclats instantanés- Maati Kabbal

• The Watsons go to Birmingham- Christopher Paul Curtis

• The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams

• L'arabe comme un chant secret- Leila sebbar

• Equiano's Travels- Equiano

• 1984- George Orwell

• Catch 22- Joseph Heller

• Red Badge of Courage- Stephen Crane

• Witness- Karen Hesse

• Hidden Faces of Eve- Nawal El Saadwi

• Decolonizing the Mind- Ngugi wa Thiong'o

• Wuthering Heights- Emily Brontë

• Song of Solomon- Tori Morrison

• The Trial- Franz Kafka

• Madame Bovary- Flaubert

~2017~

• How Does it Feel to be a Problem?- Moustafa Bayoumi

• Moi, Tituba Sorcière- Maryse Condé

• Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Bleu-Blanc-Rouge- Alain Mabanckou

• L'Incendie- Mohammed Dib

• The Translator- Leila Aboulela

• Born a Crime- Trevor Noah

• So Long a Letter- Mariama Bâ

• The Art of War- Sun Tzu

• Xala- Ousmane Sembène

• The Circling Song- Nawal Sadawi

• Salvation Army- Abdellah Taïa

• The Fault in Our Stars- John Green

• Jerusalem- Guy Delise

• King Leopold's Ghost- Adam Hochschild

• A Bend in the River- V.S. Naipaul

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X

• Ain't I a Woman?- Sojourner Truth

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

• The Bluest Eye- Toni Morrison

• Dreams of Trespass- Fatema Mernissi

~2018~

• Candide- Voltaire

• Les Lettres Persanes- Montesquieu

• Une Vie de Boy- Ferdinand Oyono

• La Grève des Bàttu- Aminata Sow Fall

• Without a Doubt- Marcia Clark

• Assata: An Autobiography

• The Souls of Black Folk- W.E.B. Du Bois

• Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work- Parreñas, R. S.

• Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam- Chouki El Hamel

• Born out of place: Migrant mothers and the politics of international labor- Costable, N

• Women and Migration: The Social Consequences of Gender- Pedraza, S.

• Ghana Must Go- Taiye Selasi

~2019~

• L'Armée du Salut- Abdellah Taïa

• La Chatte- Colette

• Empowering Migrant Women: Why Agency and Rights are not Enough- Briones, L. D.

• Doing Feminist Theory- Susan Archer Mann

• Americanah- Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

• Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader- Adrien Katherine Wing

• We Should All be Feminists- Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

• Half of a Yellow Sun- Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

• The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl- Patricia C. McKissack

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou

• Culture and Imperialism- Edward Said

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If you see somewhat of a pattern in these books, I'm really interested in reading fictional and non-fictional books revolving around themes of feminism, colonialism, post-colonialism, Orientalism, race, gender, slavery in the Americas, black history, or just culture in general. If you have any book recommendations revolving around these themes, let me know.