Check out Venise’s favorite reads:

Sula by Toni Morrison

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

 

 Seasons of Bento Blackbird by Akosua Busia

 

 

James by Percival Everett

Anything by Octavia Butler

Parable of the Sower, Kindred, Wild Seed, Dawn, Patternmaster, Fledgling, Mind of My Mind, Adulthood Rights, Imago…

                           

          A Life for a Life by Earnest Hill

 

 

 

 

The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.

 

What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell.  

                                                                       

 

 

                              Graceland by Chris Abani.

 

Hannibal: Pride of Carthage by David Anthony Durham

A Thirst for Rain by Roslyn Carrington