It’s summer time, and you need a choose a book to read on the side of the pool/at the beach/at your family reunion. Don’t worry, I created a mind map of books based on TV shows for you. This infographic is based on personal reading, suggestions from others, Twitter convos, and a bit of magical thinking.
For those of you who don’t dig infographics, here’s a linked list of all the books below. Let me know what you think!
Colbert Report
Bossy Pants (Tina Fey), 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in theMouth (And Other Useful Guides) (Matthew Inman), Stuff White People Like (Christian Lander), PostSecret: Extraordinary Secrets from Ordinary Lives (Frank Warren), Found: The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World (Davy Rothbart)
Modern Family
The Color of Water (James McBride), My Korean Deli (Ben Ryder Howe), Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides), OnBeauty (Zadie Smith), The Taste of Salt (Martha Southgate)
Downton Abbey
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides), Salvage The Bones (Jesmyn Ward), Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamada Ngozi Adichie), Wench: A Novel (Dolen Perkins-Valdez)
Mary, Mary
Church Folk (Michele Andrea Bowen), The Shack (William Young), The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis), The Purpose Driven Life (Rick Warren), Living Buddha, Living Christ (Thich Naht Hanh)
Oprah Winfrey Life Class
The Power of Habit (Charles Duhigg), 5 Love Languages (Gary Chapman), Beneaththe Lion’s Gaze (Maaza Mengiste), State of Wonder (Ann Patchett), The Artist’sWay (Julia Cameron), Back of the Napkin (Dan Roam)
Luther
The Long Fall (Walter Mosley), Leaving Atlanta (Tayari Jones), Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Jeff Lindsay), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson), Homicide: AYear on the Killing Streets (David Simon)
Walking Dead
Wild Seed (Octavia Butler), Dhalgren (Samuel Delaney), Pym (Mat Johnson), The Watchmen (Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons), Shades of Memnon (Brother O), A Song of Ice & Fire :Game of Thrones series (George Martin)
Mad Men
Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Wolfe), Prep (Curtis Sittenfield), Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe), 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene), Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun (Reginald Lewis, Blair Walker)
Awkward Black Girl
How To Be Black (Baratunde Thurston), The Broke Diaries (Angela Nissel), Nappily Ever After (Trisha Thomas), BeforeYou Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (Danielle Evans), The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz), The Return of Simple (Langston Hughes)
Love + Hip Hop
Coldest Winter Ever (Sister Souljah), Drama is Her MiddleName (Wendy Williams, Karen Hunter), Diamond Life (Aliya S. King), Bling (Erica Kennedy), The Vixen Manual: How to Find, Seduce and Keep the Man You Want (Karrine Steffans)
Melissa Harris-Perry
Drift (Rachel Maddow), Emperor of Ocean Park (Stephen Carter), Black Cool (Rebecca Walker), MalcolmX: A Life of Reinvention (Manning Marable), The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot),The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander)
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Giovanni’s Room (James Baldwin), Gotham Diaries (Tonya Lewis Lee, Crystal McCrary Anthony), OutlawMarriages (Rodger Streitmatter), The Commitment (Dan Savage), Seriously I’m Kidding (Ellen DeGeneres), Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Jeanette Winterson)
This is great, but I have to wonder why The Walking Dead isn’t an off shoot of The Walking Dead. The comic is fantastic.
Didn’t want to choose the book it was based on. Same with Melissa Harris Perry or Colbert Report, wanted to give something different. But grgood point!
This is pretty cool. Can I request an off shoot to The Walking Dead…? Zone One by Colson Whitehead!! TERRIFIC ZOMBIE APOCALYPTIC NOVEL!
Ha! Zone One was originally on the list…mind reader! Ok, that definitely owrk.s Any more?
Did y’all like Zone One. I couldn’t finish it and I wanted Mark Spitz to die so he could be interesting.
Wordstress, this is genius….I am a huge Downton Abbey fan and will be starting your reading list this weekend. Reading is FUNdamental
Haaaaaaaaa thanks bew! Let me know what books to grab! Hope all is well with you!
The dork in me got all excited when I saw this link on Twitter. This was truly dope. I’ve read a few of the books on this list. Very very nice list.
Hey, you gotta let your dork flag fly, yo! No shame over here
Great mapping! I’ve actually read most of the ABG reading list…
oooooh, then that means we’ve got to get you some more books young lady
Good list! I’ve read a lot of these and I have to clear my plate before I tackle Marble’s Malcolm X tome.
I think we had a discussion about Zone One on Twitter, Wu. I felt the same way, so I couldnt in good conscience put it on the list without really liking or knowing anyone that really liked it, but I’m willing to give it another go!
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