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Alice Walker Book Recommendations
Alice Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist.
(Read more on Wikipedia)16 Books Recommended
The Road of Lost Innocence
The story of a Cambodian heroine
by Somaly Mam
"I couldn’t sleep after reading this book." - Alice Walker (Source)
And the Truth Shall Set You Free
by David Icke
"A curious person’s dream come true." - Alice Walker (Source)
Perfect Peace
A Novel
by Daniel Black
"About a young boy in the Deep South who was raised until he was 8 as if he were a girl." - Alice Walker (Source)
Mom & Me & Mom
by Maya Angelou
"This is my favorite Angelou book." - Alice Walker (Source)
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
"My feeling of kinship with [this book] has never waned." - Alice Walker (Source)
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Who Asked You?
by Terry McMillan
"A rich celebration of mothers who have, in the age of crack cocaine, been forced to raise their own grandchildren, having lost their daughters to the epidemic." - Alice Walker (Source)
The Activist's Tao Te Ching
Ancient Advice for a Modern Revolution
by William Martin
"A recent inspiration." - Alice Walker (Source)
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
"I was 11 when I read it and it encouraged me to believe the world was large, fascinating, and with incredibly interesting creatures in it!" - Alice Walker (Source)
Also recommended by:
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill
Revolutionary Road, The Easter Parade, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
by Richard Yates
"I don’t understand why Yates isn’t read in every English class." - Alice Walker (Source)
Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell
"Hilarious, with a humor quite unexpected in the otherwise seemingly somber Brother Blair." - Alice Walker (Source)
Fear
Trump in the White House
by Bob Woodward
"There are women in the story, but they lack the quality of energetic feminine connectivity with life that means inevitable change." - Alice Walker (Source)
Unhinged
An Insider's Account of the Trump White House
by Omarosa Manigault Newman
"Scary, but full of color and life." - Alice Walker (Source)
Alice Walker
A Life
by Evelyn C. White
"I am content, even happy with [this book]." - Alice Walker (Source)
Betty Shabazz
by Russell J. Rickford
Alice Walker mentioned this book in a New York Times interview. (Source)
