Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel and the best known work by African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston. The novel narrates main character Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny."^[1] As a young woman, who is fair-skinned with long hair, she expects more out of life, but comes to realize she has to find out about life 'fuh theyselves' (for herself), just as people can only go-to-God for themselves. Set in central and southern Florida in the early 20th century, the novel was initially poorly received for its rejection of racial uplift literary prescriptions. Today, it has come to be regarded as a seminal work in both African-American literature and women's literature.^[2]TIME included the novel in its 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923.<sup>[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God

Just based off the fact that they are speaking in this broken-language seen in the summary, I could never read this book. I hate reading books with broken language because it takes forever to interpret what they are trying to say.</sup>

The Bell Jar is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting American classic.
https://www.amazon.com/Bell-Jar-Sylvia-Plath/dp/0061148512

Could be interesting because of her mental decay.

As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.

https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Blood-Truman-Capote/dp/0679745580

This novel sounds like it could be rather interesting as it investigates such a brutal and seemingly meaningless murder. I would like to follow the story of the investigation and see where it leads.

So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.

Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
https://www.amazon.com/Middlesex-Novel-Oprahs-Book-Club/dp/0312427735

This novel could prove to be interesting because of the relatively new and controversial topic of gender change, but besides that there are not many draws to the book. It feels like it could drag out over nothing.

After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred, now a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Despite the danger, Offred learns to navigate the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules in hopes of ending this oppression.

https://www.amazon.com/Handmaids-Tale-Classic-Collection/dp/1480560103

I already read this book, and let me just say it was quite delectable. I very much enjoyed it and would very much like to experience it again.

 

With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.

https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Luck-Club-Novel/dp/0143038095

The mysterious and complex relationships between these women with shared backgrounds seems like it could be somewhat interesting. I might be interested in reading this.