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Here are an essential 100 to get you started . . .
By Atlas P. Wingtip
4 Graphic Narratives
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Maus by Art Spiegelman
One! Hundred! Demons! by Lynda Barry
The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
5 Books of Poetry
Devotions by Mary Oliver
How to Carry Water by Lucille Clifton
Song of Myself by Walk Whitman
South Texas Experience: Love Letters by Noemi Ixchel Martinez
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda
5 Children’s Tales for Humans of All Ages
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
9 Works of Memoir
All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
I Wonder as I Wander by Langston Hughes
Night by Eli Wiesel
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
The Classic Slave Narratives edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Cullors
17 Books on Education, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Death, Life, & Nature
Advice for Future Corpses (And Those who Love them) by Sallie Tisdale
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World by Barry Lopez
Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Childrearing by A.S. Neil
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston
The Courage to Create by Rollo May
The End of White Supremacy: Four Speeches by Malcolm X
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
Women Who Run with Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes’
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig
53 Works of Fiction
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
American War by Omar El Akkad
Blindness by José Saramago
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Cheri & The Last of Cheri by Colette
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Journey to the East by Herman Hesse
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Krik? Krak! By Edwige Danticat
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mink River by Brian Doyle
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo by Ntosake Shange
Shadow on the Minotaur by Miriam Sagan
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemisin
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Confessions of Madame Psyche by Dorothy Bryant
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein
The Makioki Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehishi Coates
There There by Tommy Orange
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
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Atlas P. Wingtip makes his home on a live-aboard sailboat currently anchored in the Adriatic
