To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds - Homer
Choose the harder right over the easier wrong without regard for self-interest - Marcus Aurelius
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Early Quinnite Reading
1. How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren
2. The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. & E.B. White
3. 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know from the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries
4. Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know by David Bornstein and Susan Davis
5. How to Change the World by David Bornstein
6. Chew on This by Eric Schlosser & Charles Wilson
7. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
8. The Backyard Homestead by Storey Publishing
9. Fearless Living by Rhonda Britten
10. The Wall Street Journal Guide to Starting Your Financial Life by Karen Blumenthal
11. The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley and William Danko
12. The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness by Dave Ramsey
13. The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours by Marian Wright Edelman
14. Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher
15. The Pact: Three Young Men Make A Promise and Fulfill a Dream by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt
16. And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students by Miles Corwin
17. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
18. The Iliad by Homer
19. The Odyssey by Homer
20. Othello by William Shakespeare
21. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
22. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
23. Beloved by Toni Morrison
24. The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln
25. Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln by James Stauffer
26. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
27. The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
28. Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
29. Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
30. Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers by Richard S. Newman
31. Don’t Look Back: Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball by Mark Ribowsky
32. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe
33. The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
34. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
35. The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
36. The Known World by Edward P. Jones
37. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
38. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
39. If by Rudyard Kipling
40. Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes
41. Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
42. Phenomenal Women by Maya Angelou
43. The Emperor’s Handbook by Marcus Aurelius
Advanced Quinnite Reading
44. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
45. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
46. The Big D by Darwin Payne
47. From Slavery to Freedom by Dr. John Hope Franklin
48. Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
49. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
50. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
51. Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary by Juan Williams
52. Simple Justice by Richard Kluger
53. What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Decision by Jack Balkin
54. Born to Rebel: An Autobiography by Benjamin Mays
55. King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. by Will Haygood
56. Barbara Jordan: An American Hero by Mary Beth Rogers
57. Can You Hear Me Now? by Dr. Michael Eric Dyson
58. Race Matters by Dr. Cornel West
59. Buffett: the Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
60. Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun? by Reginald Lewis
61. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
62. Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
63. Native Son by Richard Wright
64. The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
65. Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American by Jean-Robert Cadet
66. The Promised Land by Nicholas Lemann
67. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
68. Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto by Abraham Cahan
69. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
70. Good to Great by Richard Collins
71. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
72. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
73. Getting Past No by William Ury
74. On Competition by Michael Porter
75. Competitive Strategies by Michael Porter
76. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
77. On a Life Well Spent by Cicero
78. The Republic by Plato
79. The Basic Works of Aristotle by Aristotle and Richard McKeon
80. Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
81. No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
82. The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein
83. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
84. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
85. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
86. Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
87. Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
88. The Bible
89. The Torah
90. The Koran
91. The Rig-Veda by Ralph T.H. Griffith
