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Zora Neale Hurston is one of the greatest American writers (not just on of the greatest African American writers), period, but so many of my students say that they have never encountered Zora Neale Hurston until they came to college.  

Nevertheless, if you haven’t read her yet, or it’s been a while, time to get your weight up.

Zora Neale Hurston Reading List

1.  Their Eyes Were Watching God

2.  Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (P.S.)

3.  Mules and Men (P.S.)

4.  Jonah’s Gourd Vine: A Novel (P.S.)

5.  Seraph on the Suwanee: A Novel (P.S.)

6.  Moses, Man of the Mountain (P.S.)

7.  The Complete Stories (P.S.)

8.  Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life (P.S.) w/ Langston Hughes

9.  Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (P.S.)

10.  Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States
Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings From the Federal Writers’ Project edited by Pamela Bordelon

11.  I Love Myself When I Am Laughing… And Then Again: A Zora Neale  Hurston Reader w/ Alice Walker and Mary Helen Washington

12.  Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters by Carla Kaplan, Ph.D.

Pick one, any one, and you’ll be glad you did!

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