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Joy’s favorite books

The Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka

Freedom Dreams by Robin D.G. Kelley

The Darker Face of the Earth by Rita Dove

1984 by George Orwell

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Funnyhouse of a Negro by Adrienne Kennedy

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rain... by Ntozake Shange

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Equus by Peter Shaffer

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Joy’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (153)
currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (97)
did-not-finish‎ (0)

blood-of-my-blood‎ (17)
favorites‎ (10)

the-black-girl-in-her-search-for-go‎ (8)
stilt‎ (4)

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Favorite Genres

Art, Biography, Classics, Contemporary, Ebooks, Fiction, Memoir, Music, Philosophy, and Self help

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