Tapping The Great Wisdom, #2: Great books for the college-bound.

[silveradept]

So, my workplace is putting together a book list of books that kids who are college-bound should read. The lists that are the base point for such a thing are remarkably full of old dudes, white dudes, dead dudes, straight dudes, and a good smattering of old, dead, white, straight dudes. A little diversity is in order, and it's been actively solicited from us.

So, while they're still in the formative stages, any suggestions for good books for the college bound that can bring some color and alternative thinking into their lives before they go?

(Not to say that really good books by men, white men, dead white men, and straight dead white men won't be accepted, but they're already pretty well represented, yeh?)

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[mischiefpeace]

June Jordan (some of us did not die), Langston Hughes, Marge Piercy, Sandra Cisneros (the house on mango street), Naomi Wolf and Sherman Alexie.