Song of Solomon
Ranked #15 in Oprah, Ranked #15 in African American — see more rankings.
Song of Solomon begins with one of the most arresting scenes in our century's literature: a dreamlike tableau depicting a man poised on a roof, about to fly into the air, while cloth rose petals swirl above the snow-covered ground and, in the astonished crowd below, one woman sings as another enters... more
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Barack Obama Former USA PresidentAccording to the president’s Facebook page and a 2008 interview with the New York Times, these titles are among his most influential forever favorites: Moby Dick, Herman Melville Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson Song Of Solomon, Toni Morrison Parting The Waters, Taylor Branch Gilead, Marylinne Robinson Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam The Federalist, Alexander Hamilton Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene The Quiet American, Graham Greene Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Gandhi’s autobiography Working, Studs Terkel Wealth of Nations, Adam... (Source)
Bozoma Saint John I love [this book]. Her writing style is incredibly poetic and complex. (Source)
Jesse Williams The characters’ dilemmas just rocked my world in high school. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Song of Solomon is ranked in the following categories:
- #94 in 11th Grade
- #91 in 12th Grade
- #95 in 16-Year-Old
- #91 in 17-Year-Old
- #91 in 18-Year-Old
- #80 in AA
- #88 in African
- #33 in Black Author
- #42 in Buzzfeed
- #76 in Magical Realism
- #52 in Nobel
- #91 in Sales
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