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Yara Shahidi’s Book Picks

  1. 1

    The Bluest Eye

    Toni Morrison · 1970

  2. 2

    Cat's Cradle

    Kurt Vonnegut, Martí Sales Sariola · 1963

  3. 3

    Brave New World

    Aldous Huxley · 1932

  4. 4

    Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Zora Neale Hurston · 1937

  5. 5

    The devil finds work

    James Baldwin · 1976

  6. 6

    The Odyssey of Homer, done into English prose by S.H. Butcher and A. Lang.

    Ὅμηρος · 1488

  7. 7

    Chains

    Laurie Halse Anderson · 2008

  8. 8

    Candide

    Voltaire · 1746

  9. 9

    Bud, Not Buddy

    Christopher Paul Curtis, Reginald André Jackson, Alberto Jimenez Rioja, aa · 1994

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The Bluest Eye, Cat's Cradle, Brave New World and 7 more books selected by Yara Shahidi.

Ten books selected by Yara Shahidi for One Grand.

Source: https://onegrandbooks.com/shop/curators/actors/yara-shahidi

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. The Bluest Eye — Toni Morrison
  2. Cat's Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut, Martí Sales Sariola
  3. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
  4. Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston
  5. The devil finds work — James Baldwin
  6. The Odyssey of Homer, done into English prose by S.H. Butcher and A. Lang. — Ὅμηρος
  7. Chains — Laurie Halse Anderson
  8. Candide — Voltaire
  9. Bud, Not Buddy — Christopher Paul Curtis, Reginald André Jackson, Alberto Jimenez Rioja, aa
  10. Catch-22 — Joseph Heller