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Alice Walker Recommended Books
Alice Walker has recommended 16 books. Browse the complete reading list with quotes and sources below.
Alice Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist.
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"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)
"About a young boy in the Deep South who was raised until he was 8 as if he were a girl." - Alice Walker (Source)
"This is my favorite Angelou book." - Alice Walker (Source)
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Emma Watson recommended this bookEmma Watson
"About the special connection between mother and child." - Emma Watson
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Hillary Clinton recommended this bookHillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton mentioned reading this book in a NY Times interview.
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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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Gretchen Rubin recommended this bookGretchen Rubin
"Has started drifting into YA." - Gretchen Rubin
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Shonda Rhimes recommended this bookShonda Rhimes
"One of those that when you read it, kinda changes you." - Shonda Rhimes
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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)
"Shamanic work." - Alice Walker (Source)
For My People
by Margaret Walker
"Moved me deeply." - Alice Walker (Source)
"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)
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Neil deGrasse Tyson recommended this bookNeil deGrasse Tyson
"To learn, among other satirical lessons, that most of the time humans are Yahoos." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Mahatma Gandhi recommended this bookMahatma Gandhi
"Effective condemnation of modem civilization, written in an ironic vein." - Mahatma Gandhi
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Mark Twain recommended this bookMark Twain
Mark Twain recommended this book in a letter.
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Winston Churchill recommended this bookWinston Churchill
"One of the books I would like to take with me to Purgatory." - Winston Churchill
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"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)
"There are women in the story, but they lack the quality of energetic feminine connectivity with life that means inevitable change." - Alice Walker (Source)
"Scary, but full of color and life." - Alice Walker (Source)
"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)
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