A Sampling of 5 Star Books (as rated by me)

by Sumayyah on 2011/10/02

A lot of people say me, “Sumayyah, please recommend me a book to read.” Sure, I say, what kind of books do you like? I usually head to my Goodreads.com page and check to see if I have anything in the genres they have specified. What I’m going to do right now, if offer you a glimpse of what I consider 5 star books. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!

The Taqwacores: A Novel
The Tempest Tales
The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1995
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

Lost City Radio
Wizard of the Crow
Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq
Bobbie Faye's Very (very, very, very) Bad Day (Bobbie Faye, #1)
The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
Snow Crash
The Prophet
Luna
A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury
Angry Management
Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal
The Size of a Mustard Seed
Jihad of the Soul
Almost Home
After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
Push
Manjani
I am Ozzy
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Black Rain: A Novel (Japan's Modern Writers)
Blood on the Border : A Memoir of the Contra War
Honour Among Punks: The Complete Baker Street Graphic Novel
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy, #1)
Timeline
Who Fears Death
Apologies Forthcoming: Stories not about Mao
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Split
Akata Witch (Akata Witch, #1)
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
The Thing Around Your Neck
Lifelines: The Black Book of Proverbs
Black in Latin America
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