Up to Snuff #50: Winter Reading List 2018 with emphasis on African Writers
By, Afua Serwah Osei-Bonsu
Put together a box of books, cover your coffee table with books, light a fire or head to a cottage or good “reading city” and read, read, read and maybe practice piano, throw in a few page turners, some classics and what I call “kb” or knowledge based books, stash articles, research a nice PHD read, check for Nobel Laureates in Literature and don’t forget to take your child to the library once a week to satisfy a young readers consumption, maybe 2 books a night, maybe even take a book run vacation and collect foreign language books to build a linguistics profile, buy or build some book shelves and build your families library, read, read, read. A good hobby to have is researching books or getting good classes with good book lists or go to a school with a good library or asking colleagues for a book list, read, read, read.
Sommerset Maugham –all books
Tolstoy
Nikolai Gogol
D.H. Lawrence
Daphne Du Maurier
Jane Eyre
Nathanial Hawthorne
Alice Walker
Euripides
Bulwark
Falun Gong
Find some good Latin books
Spanish novels or newspapers or little pamphlets
Try to read/earn a few skills
Read across an area all you can get your hands on or a writers complete collection
Carlos Casteneda
T.S. Elliot
Aga Kahn
Prentice Hall books (Publisher)
Gandhi
James Baldwin
Jose Saramago
Breton
Satre
E.O. Wilson
Oscar Wilde
Read Recipes
Fareed Zakaria
Pablo Neruda
Octavio Paz
Rosario Castellanos
Paul Ricoeur
Confucius
Aleksandr Dugin
Jurgen Habermas
Nick Land Alt Right
Bill Gates
Complete Guide to Sewing, Readers Digest 1995
Designing Apparel Through Flat Pattern Fifth Edition, Fairchild Publications
How to Draft Basic Flat Patterns, Fairchild Publications
Ross, B.H., This is Like That: The Use of Earlier Problems and the Separation of Similarity Effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition
Schank, R.C., Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence, Evanston, Ill, Northwestern University Press
Schank, R.C., & Abelson R., Scripts, Plans, Goals and Understanding: An Inquiry into Human Knowledge Structures, Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Spiro, R.J., Coulson, R.L., Feltvich, P.J., & Anderson, D.K (1988) Cognitive Flexibility Theory: Advanced Knowledge Acquisition in Ill Structured Domains, Tech Report No 441, Champaign, Ill: University of Illinois
Center for the Study of Reading, Sternberg, R. J., & French, P.A. (Eds.) (1991) Complex Problem Solving: Principles and Mechanisms, Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Voss, J.F & Post, T. A. (1988), On solving of Ill Structured Problems, IN M. T.. H Chi, R, Glaser, & M.J. Farr (Eds.), The Nature of Expertise (PP. 261-185), Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
The Complete Greek Tragedies
MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing
Writing Your Dissertation In Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, revising and finishing your doctoral thesis/Joan Bolker
Sicily by Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi
The Italian Baker by Melissa Forti and Danny Bernardini
Mozza at Home by Nancy Silverton and Carolyn CArreno
Henry and June
Tropic of Cancer
Cities of The Interior, Anais Nin
Balzac
The Rhinoceros by, Ionesco
A good almanac
Collect Maps and study them
Some African Writers
Afua Serwah Osei-Bonsu
Peter Abrahams, Mine boy, This Island Now, A Wreath for Udomo ( South Africa)
Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Jose Eduardo Agualusa
Mohamed Naseehu Ali (Ghana)
Germano Almeida
Elechi Amadi
Ayi Kwei Armah (Ghana)
Sefi Atta
Ayesha Harruna Attah
Mariama BA
Nadifa Mohamed
Chris Barnard
Mongo Beti
Andre Brink
J.M Coetzee
Mia Couto
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Mohammed Dib
E.K.M. dido
Assia Djebar
- Sello Duiker
Daphne Williams
Buchi Emecheta
Daniel Olorunfemi Fagunwa
Nuruddin Farah
Athol Fugard
Nadine Gordimer
Alex La Guma
Bessie Head
Moses Isegawa
Rayda Jacobs
Tahar Ben Jellouon
Cheikh Hamidou Kane
Yasmina Khadra
Camara Laye
Naguib Mahfouz
Charles Mangua
Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Dambudzo Marechera
Darlene mattee
Zakes Mda
Thomas Mofolo
Bai Tamia Moore
Meja Mwangi
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Lewis Nkosi
Flora Nwapa
Nnedi Okorafor
Ben Okri
Deon Opperman
Yambo Ouologuem
Alan Paton
Pepetela
Sol Plaatje
Nawal El Saadawi
Tayeb Salih
Wilton Sankawulo
Karel Schoeman
Olive Schreiner
Benjamin Sehene
Ousmane Sembene
Wole, Soyinka
Amos Tutuola
Marlene van Niekirk
Yvonnne Vera
Jose Luandino Vieira
Joseph Jeffrey Walters
Birhanu Zerihun
Ama Ata Aidoo
Georges Andriamanantena
Jared Angira
Kofi Anyidoho
Kofi Awooner
Sahesillasse Birhanemariam
Breyten Breytenbach
Dennis Brutus
Glynn Burridge
Abena Busia
John Pepper Clark
Jose Craveirinha
Viriato Clemenete da Cruz
Getinet Eniyew
Tsegaye Gebremedhin
Abbe Gubenga
Hadraawi
Ingrid Jonker
Jonathan Kariara
Joseph Kariuki
Susan Kiguli
Ahmadou Kourouma
Antjie Krog
Jack Mapanje
Eugene Mapanje
Eugene Marais
Don Mattera
Bai Tamia Moore
Togara Muzanenhamo
- Moses Nagbe
Arthur Nortje
Gabriel Okara
Nii Parkes
Chrisotpher Okigbo
Okot P’Bitek
Lenrie Peters
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
Jacques Rabemananjara
Elie Rajaonarison
Ny Avana Ramanantoanina
Pierre Randrianarisoa
Jean Verdi Saloman Razakandraina
David Rubadiri
Tijan Sallah
Leopold Sedar Senghor
Debede Seyfu
Bewketu Seyoum
Warsan Shire
Adam Small
Veronique Tadjo
Dagnachew WERku
Armenio Vieira
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Credit: Wikipedia African Writers List (see for more detailed list)