DICE Winter Reading Selections

“ Every book on the list has added something to how I see the world. They have opened my mind about race, the environment, history and politics."
Nina Fain, Esq. CBA Treasurer

February 2023
Scatterlings by Resoketswe Manenzhe (Chronicles the lives of family in 1927 Africa)
The Color of Family by Jerry McGill (This novel examines the lives of Black family from the 1960s to the 2000s)

January 2023
Ten must-read 2022 books by Latino Authors (NBC 5)
Time Magazine Best Non-Fiction Books 2022
Time Magazine Best Fiction Books 2022

November 2022
Black Out: A Novel - by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon



AUGUST 2022
All the King’s Men - Robert Penn Warren
Our Town - Thornton Wilder
The Emperor Jones - Eugene O’Neill
The Good Earl - Pearl S. Buck
The Oxbow Incident - Walter Van Tilburg Clark
A Doll’s House - Henrik Ibsen
The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway
The Lottery ( A Short Story) - Shirley Jackson
One Man’s Meat - E.B. White
Lady Windemere’s Fan -  Oscar Wilde
Native Son by Richard - Wright
The Sea Around Us - Rachel Carson
Pattern of Culture - Ruth Benedict
Jalna - Mazo de la Roche
“Bliss” - Katherine Mansfield ( A Short Story)
My Antonia - Willa Cather
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain
How to Read a Book - Mortimer J. Adler
 
July 2022
How to Read A Book - Mortimer J. Adler
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the Work - W. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz
Native Son - Richard Wright 
Bliss - Katherine Mansfield ( a short story)
The Complete sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
Profiles in Courage - Robert F. Kennedy
A Farewell to Arms -  Ernest Hemmingway
The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
Patterns of Culture - Ruth Benedict
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain 
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin