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Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,437 ratings — published 2009
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.13 — 815,887 ratings — published 2010
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.37 — 295,183 ratings — published 1965
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as heritage)
avg rating 3.87 — 60,590 ratings — published 2010
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.04 — 667,772 ratings — published 2002
Watercress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.51 — 5,935 ratings — published 2021
Eyes that Kiss in the Corners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.56 — 9,249 ratings — published 2021
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,100 ratings — published 2019
Alma and How She Got Her Name (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,012 ratings — published 2018
Uses of Heritage (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as heritage)
avg rating 3.82 — 111 ratings — published 2005
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.05 — 317,606 ratings — published 2009
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.15 — 231,031 ratings — published 1985
The Scions of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,583 ratings — published 1990
Petals from the Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as heritage)
avg rating 3.05 — 783 ratings — published 2010
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,684 ratings — published 2010
Elizabeth Street (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as heritage)
avg rating 3.95 — 15,659 ratings — published 2006
Decoded (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as heritage)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,707 ratings — published 2009
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as heritage)
avg rating 3.97 — 713,745 ratings — published 1989
The Druid of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.04 — 34,195 ratings — published 1991
The Elf Queen of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.06 — 33,043 ratings — published 1992
The Talismans of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara, #4)
by (shelved 6 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.04 — 41,159 ratings — published 1993
Islandborn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,795 ratings — published 2018
Cathedral (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as heritage)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,461 ratings — published 1981
A Good Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as heritage)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,075 ratings — published 2009
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,033 ratings — published 1845
In the Shadow of the Cypress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as heritage)
avg rating 3.40 — 386 ratings — published 2010
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as heritage)
avg rating 3.89 — 280,915 ratings — published 2007
Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,989 ratings — published 2010
Remember (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 4 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,459 ratings — published 2023
I Am Golden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,228 ratings — published 2022
My Two Border Towns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,185 ratings — published 2021
We Are Water Protectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.48 — 9,089 ratings — published 2020
When You Trap a Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.13 — 20,663 ratings — published 2020
The Proudest Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.52 — 7,571 ratings — published 2019
Bilal Cooks Daal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,322 ratings — published 2019
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as heritage)
avg rating 3.99 — 393,354 ratings — published 1937
Grandpa Green (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,754 ratings — published 2011
The Surrendered (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as heritage)
avg rating 3.67 — 4,913 ratings — published 2009
Beautiful Maria of My Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as heritage)
avg rating 3.31 — 742 ratings — published 2010
Aztec (Aztec, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,766 ratings — published 1980
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as heritage)
avg rating 3.67 — 54,420 ratings — published 2011
River East, River West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as heritage)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,804 ratings — published 2024
The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,113,079 ratings — published 2020
The Covenant of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.40 — 330,988 ratings — published 2023
Brownstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,987 ratings — published 2024
The Truth About Dragons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,439 ratings — published 2023
Paletero Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,187 ratings — published 2021
Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as heritage)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,802 ratings — published 2019
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.23 — 621,439 ratings — published 2021
The Year We Learned to Fly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as heritage)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,209 ratings — published 2022
“Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.”
― Dune
― Dune
“No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a person from Alabama, Florida, South Carolina a mile away even if they make no exact reference to location. Their words are lush like the land they come from, filled with nine aunties, people named Bubba. There is something extravagant and wild about what they have to say — snakes on the roof of a car, swamps, a delta, sweat, the smell of sea, buzz of an air conditioner, Coca-Cola — something fertile, with a hidden danger or shame, thick like the humidity, unspoken yet ever-present.
Often when a southerner reads, the members of the class look at each other, and you can hear them thinking, gee, I can't write like that. The power and force of the land is heard in the piece. These southerners know the names of what shrubs hang over what creek, what dogwood flowers bloom what color, what kind of soil is under their feet.
I tease the class, "Pay no mind. It's the southern writing gene. The rest of us have to toil away.”
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Often when a southerner reads, the members of the class look at each other, and you can hear them thinking, gee, I can't write like that. The power and force of the land is heard in the piece. These southerners know the names of what shrubs hang over what creek, what dogwood flowers bloom what color, what kind of soil is under their feet.
I tease the class, "Pay no mind. It's the southern writing gene. The rest of us have to toil away.”
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