A list 4 ppl who like both trashy and good books :) :) :)
Discover the ultimate book list for readers who love both literary classics and guilty pleasures. From Joyce Carol Oates and Betty Smith to Terry McMillan’s bestsellers, explore great stories like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Waiting to Exhale, and Peyton Place—proof that smart, trashy, and page-turning fiction can live happily together.
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I'll Take You There
by Joyce Carol Oates
"Anellia" is a young student who, though gifted with a penetrating intelligence, is drastically inclined to obsession. Funny, mordant, and compulsive, she falls passionately in love with a brilliant yet elusive black philosophy student. But she is tested most severely by a figure out of her past she'd long believed dead. Astonishingly intimate and unsparing, and pitiless in exposing the follies of the time, I'll Take You There is a dramatic revelation of the risks—and curious rewards—of the obsessive personality as well as a testament to the stubborn strength of a certain type of contemporary female intellectual.
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Disappearing Acts
by Terry McMillan
A full-blown, sophisticated love affair between two African-American adults.
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Mama
by Terry McMillan
Mildred Peacock, mother of five, black, and fed up with poverty and the jealous rampages of her husband, kicks him out to raise her kids on her own.
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Waiting to Exhale
by Terry McMillan
Four African-American women are leaning on each other while "waiting to exhale", waiting for the one man who will take their breath away.
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Between Lovers
by Eric Jerome Dickey
A writer still trying to get over being dumped by his former fiancee, Nicole, who fell in love with another woman, unexpectedly finds himself caught in a love triangle when Nicole comes back into his life.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
A young girl from an impoverished family comes of age in Brooklyn at the turn of the twentieth-century.
