The Matter Is Life
by J. California Cooper | 
Eight Men
by Richard Wright |
The Future Has a Past
by J. California Cooper |
Homemade Love
by J. California Cooper | 
The Ways of White Folks
by Langston Hughes |
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime
by J. California Cooper | 
A Piece of Mine
by J. California Cooper |
Gorilla, My Love
by Toni Cade Bambara | 
Going to Meet the Man
by James Baldwin | 
Flyy Girl
by Omar Tyree |
In Search of Satisfaction
by J. California Cooper | 
Uncle Tom's Children
by Richard Wright | 
The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie | 
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen King | 
Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore | 
Strange Pilgrims
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
Exercises in Style
by Raymond Queneau | 
Goodbye, Columbus
by Philip Roth | 
A Manual for Cleaning Women
by Lucia Berlin |
Anything Is Possible
by Elizabeth Strout |
J. California Cooper writes with a transparent clarity and such exuberant energy that her characters leap off the page, bursting with stories they've got to tell--stories of simple people, stories of families and fate, of love and marriage, of death and the triumph of the human spirit.