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Good Reads

Looking for a Good Read? Check out our recommendations separated by genre and themes!

Performance Poetry/Spoken Word 

"Written to be Yelled at Trump Tower During A Vigil for the NEA" by Sam Sax
"The Body is Not An Apology" by Sonya Renee Taylor
"Questions" and "Fashion" by Aleah Bradshaw
"America's Next Top Model" by the Chicago 2017 BNV Team
"Drown in The River" by Brandon Yip and Keturah Nobles
"Ghosting" by Hanif Abdurraqib 
"Genesissy" by Danez Smith
"Note to Self" by Terisa Siagatonu
"To The White Poets" by the Boston 2017 BNV Team 
"N400 Erasure" and "self portrait in case of permanence (after Safia Elhillo and Isa Borgeson)" by Yujane Chen 
"On Language, Cherry Trees & Acrylic Nails" by Caitlyn Clark
"Dear White Girls In My Spanish Class" by Ariana Brown
"Do You Hear the Black Women" by Tianna Bratcher
"59", "Paper People", and "Sunshine Kid" by Harry Baker
"When Love Arrives" by Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye
"An Origin Story" by Sarah Kaye and Phil Kaye

Literary Fiction

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Norwegian Wood ​by Haruki Murakami
Pride and Prejudice ​by Jane Austen 

Short Stories

Fables by Bennett Sims (Alessandra Yu)
In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried by Amy Hempel (Anne Shalamoff)
​Last Night by James Salter (Sarah Tran)

Poetry Anthologies 

Blues Arrival: Stories of the Queer Black South and Migration edited by Audacious IAM
Straight Up: An Intergenerational LGBTQ+ Anthology edited by Rose Gelfand

Poetry Collections

Dated Emcees by Chinaka Hodge
Madness by Sam Sax
All the Rage by Sam Sax
Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
blud by Rachel McKibbens
In Another Life, No Bodies Home by Shivani Narang and Gracia Mwamba
The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib 
Heaven Is All Goodbyes by Tongo Eisen-Martin
Remember We Have Choir Practice by Terisa Siagatonu
Electric Arches by Eve Ewing 
Nothing is Okay by Rachel Wiley
Citizen ​by Claudia Rankine

Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
The Graveyard Book ​by Neil Gaiman 
​Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Percy Jackson ​by Rick Riordan
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Creative Nonfiction

Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
Limber by Angela Pelster
How to Ruin Everything by George Watsky

Other

The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

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  • About
    • New to 5CW
    • Meet the Agents >
      • Apply as an Agent
  • What We Do
    • Careless Magazine
    • Sandbox Forum
    • Tea and Poetry
    • Snaps (Spoken Word)
  • Events
    • Calendar
    • News
  • At the 5Cs
    • Academics
    • Student Groups
    • Writer Havens
    • Venues
  • Beyond
    • Off-Campus
    • Good Reads
    • Writers' Tips
    • Programs
    • Quotes