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FICTION LITERATURE (nerdy sh*t)
1. Lilith’s Brood – Octavia Butler
2. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
3. Kindred – Octavia Butler
4. The Samurai’s Garden – Gail Tsukiyama
5. The Otori Trilogy – Lian Hearn
6. Paper Bullets – Kip Fulbeck
7. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
8. The Brief & Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
9. Angry Black Whiteboy – Adam Mansbach
10. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway

NON-FICTION LITERATURE (even nerdier sh*t)
1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa – Walter Rodney
2. The Autobiography of Malcom X – Malcom X & Alex Haley
3. Power Politics – Arundhati Roy
4. Hegemony or Survival – Noam Chomsky
5. Margins & Mainstreams – Gary Okihiro
6. Hope on a Tightrope – Cornell West
7. Total Chaos: The Art & Aesthitics of Hip-Hop – Jeff Chang
8. Racial Formation in the United States – Michael Omi & Howard Winant
9. The Hip-Hop Wars – Tricia Rose
10. Immigrant Acts – Lisa Lowe

COMIC BOOKS/GRAPHIC NOVELS (the nerdiest sh*t)
1. Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima (series) – Keiji Nakazawa
2. PERSEPOLIS – Marjane Satrapi
3. The DMZ – Brian Wood
4. Shooting War – Anthony lappe & Dan Goldman
5. Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm – Percy Carey & Ronald Wimberly
6. Y: The Last Man (series) – Brian K. Vaughn & Pia Guevarra
7. Incognegro – Mat Johnson & Warren Pleece
8. Usagi Yojimbo (series) – Stan Sakai
9. Shortcomings – Adrian Tomine
10. Palestine – Joe Sacco