12 months 12 classics - hosted by mirto

November: A classic written by a black person
"(you can change this one to Black History Month if you're from USA, I usually do this challenge during November cuz we have the Black Awareness Day in Brazil)"
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Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

159 pages • first pub 1956 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
A cor púrpura by Alice Walker

A cor púrpura

The Color Purple Collection #1

Alice Walker

288 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

fiction classics historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

581 pages • first pub 1952 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging dark reflective slow-paced
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

272 pages • first pub 1953 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Dom Casmurro by Geovani Martins, Machado de Assis, Rogério Fernandes dos Santos, Maria Ribeiro, Camilla Dias

Dom Casmurro

Geovani Martins, Machado de Assis, Rogério Fernandes dos Santos, Maria Ribeiro, Camilla Dias

464 pages • first pub 1899 (editions)

fiction classics romance challenging reflective slow-paced
Twenty-Two Years a Slave, Forty Years a Free Man by Austin Steward

Twenty-Two Years a Slave, Forty Years a Free Man

Austin Steward

182 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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