Future Readings

If you liked Oscar Zeta Acosta's Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, you might like the sequel The Revolt of the Cockroach People.

If you liked Bob Dylan's Chronicles and enjoyed Todd Haynes' movie I'm Not There, you might like Greil Marcus' book The Old, Weird America.

If you liked James Weldon Johnson's novel Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, you might like his actual autobiography Along This Way.

In the off-chance you liked Gertrude Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, you might like her first and easiest-to-read novel Three Lives.

If you liked Zitkala-Sa's American Indian Stories, you will probably enjoy Sherman Alexie's collection of short fiction The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. (Alexie's work has appeared The New Yorker, and he has appeared on The Colbert Report.)

If you liked Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis, you will find Art Spiegelman's Maus worthwhile. You might also want to read Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangaremba's Nervous Conditions, which is not a graphic novel, but Dangarembga deals with issues similar to that of Satrapi.

Whether or not you liked Ben Franklin's Autobiogrpahy, you should read Piri Thomas' 1967 autobiography Down These Means Streets.

If you liked Harriet Wilson's Our Nig, then you should read everything by Toni Morrison.

If you liked James Seaver's Narrative in the Life of Ms. Mary Jemison, then you'd find Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States pretty interesting.

A few more novels that I like, which you may or may not:
Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum.
John Okada, No-No Boy.
Arundathi Roy, The God of Small Things.

Lastly, Joan Didion's allusively-titled essay collection The White Album, and Oliver Sacks' clinical tales The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat are good reads.

Enjoy!