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One of the author's six favorite coming-of-age books, as shared at The Week magazine:
Sula by Toni MorrisonRead about the other entries on the list.
Morrison won the Nobel Prize in literature the same year that I read Song of Solomon in a high school English class. I loved that novel so much I read Sula (and Beloved) for fun that summer. The friendship between Sula and Nel transformed the way I thought about love and gender.
--Marshal Zeringue