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Below is two-timeEmmy winnerandOrange Is the New Blackstar Uzo Adubas list.

I read this book in kindergarten.
This is one of the most gripping books Ive ever read.
One of the last great men.

I read this for the first time my sophomore year in high school.
This is where I fell in love with the Bard.
It felt like a page-turner.

Even though it wasnt.
Cause, yknow, iambic pentameter.
The first book that made me curious about a fictional characters inner life.

The whole thing was so psychological, he was so lost.
And I think I realized that teenagers have always been this way since the beginning of time.
I read it before I saw the movie.

It was just good … thats all.
This is a book that found me.
Ive read it each time, and every time there are even more treasures to discover.

James Baldwin remains one of the most prolific and prophetic writers to have lived.
Every page had been stamped by a genius.




