Writers Against Racism: Ira Socol’s DIVERSE Summer Reading List (secondary level)

Last year I interviewed Ira Socol (Michigan State University College of Education) on his book The Drool Room and on using Correct Language. Since that time, I have found that he is an awesome resource to all who know him on Twitter, and to all who know him in the education communities – around the world.

As I prepare my K-12 reading lists, with the hopes that teachers will diversify their selections this summer, Ira came through with his list for secondary level students:

Toni Morrison – Beloved – Song of Solomon – Tar Baby
JM Coetzee – The Life and Times of Michael K – Disgrace
Peter Hoeg – Borderliners
Seamus Deane – Reading in the Dark
Ira Socol - The Drool Room – A Certain Place of Dreams
Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient
John Dos Passos – The USA Trilogy especially 1919
VS Naipaul – In a Free State
Alice Walker – The Color Purple – The Complete Stories
Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart – No Longer at Ease
Chenjerai Hove – various poems – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenjerai_Hove
Seamus Heaney – poetry – http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/heaney.php
Roy Arundhati -  The God of Small Things
Ben Okri – The Famished Road
Derek Walcott – The Gulf – Other Poems – Omeros

Thanks, Ira!