Don’t ever forget 2pac was a very Avid reader, reading opened up his mind. It was reading that transformed a young man from Stratford Upon-Avon with no formal university education into the most revered writer in the English language (Shakespeare), it was reading that transformed a 25 year old street hustler in prison nicknamed Red into one of the centuries most noted political intellectuals, it was his access to literature unlike so many of the other millions of Africans in bondage in the Americas that not only enabled but somehow forced Toussaint Louverture to lead the Haitian revolution that eventually compromised the entire trans Atlantic slave trade. This is a list of books read by Tupac during his lifetime including while he was at the Baltimore School of Arts and in prison. They are presented in no particular order. The topics include black history, the afterlife, religion including Zen, war, women’s liberation, music, and poetry. Reading these books, it is clear how they molded 2Pac’s thinking and language. This is a handy list of good reading material if you ever find yourself locked up. There are 70 in all Books Read by TUPAC SHAKUR -------------------------- 1.The Harder We Run: Black Workers Since The Civil War by William Hamilton Harris 2. 1984 by George Orwell 3. All Gods Children by Fox Butterfield 4.Nostradamus: The Millennium and Beyond by Peter Lorie *5. Ah, This! by Osho or Ah, This! Written by: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh 6. Black Sister: Poetry By Black American Women, 1746 1980 by Erlene Stetson (Editor) 7. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 8.All You Need to Know about the Music Business by Donald S. Passman 9 And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou 10 The Art of War by Sun Tzu *11 Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur 12 At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid *13 The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm *14 The Bhagavad Gita by Anonymous *15 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin 16 Blues People: Negro Music in White America by Amiri Baraka 17 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 18 Complete Illustrated Book Of The Psychic Sciences by Walter B. Gibson *19 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron 20 The Destiny of the Nations by Alice A. Bailey 21 The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 by Anaïs Nin 22 The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy by E.D. Hirsch Jr. 23 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 24 The Great White Lie: Slavery, Emancipation and Changing Racial Attitudes by Jack Gratus 25 Here and Hereafter by Ruth Montgomery 26 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 27 I Shall Not Be Moved by Maya Angelou 28 The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis 29 In Search of Our Mothers Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker 30 Initiation by Elisabeth Haich 31 Interesting People by George L Lee *32 James Baldwin: The Legacy by Quincy Troupe *33 Kabbalah by Gershom Scholem 34 The Life And Words Of Martin Luther King Jr. by Ira Peck 35 Life as Carola: A Tale of the Renaissance by Joan Marshall Grant 36 Linda Goodmans Sun Signs by Linda Goodman 37 Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America by Nathan McCall 38 The Meaning of Masonry by W. Wilmshurst 39 Moby-Dick by Herman Melville *40 Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur 41 The Music of Black Americans: A History by Eileen Southern 42 Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness by Evelyn Underhill 43 Native Son by Richard Wright 44 Nature, Man and Woman by Alan Wilson Watts 45 No Man Is an Island by Thomas Merton *46 The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin *47 Ponder on This Compilation by Alice A. Bailey 48 The Practical Encyclopedia of Natural Healing by Mark Bricklin *49 The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli *50 The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Timothy Leary 51 The Psychic Realm by Naomi A. Hintze 52 A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry *53 Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley 54 Savage Inequalities: Children in Americas Schools by Jonathan Kozol 55 Secret Splendor by Charles Earnest Essert 56 Serving Humanity by Alice A. Bailey 57 Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Womens Liberation Movement by Robin Morgan 58 The State of the World Atlas by Michael Kidron 59 Home: Social Essays by Amiri Baraka 60 The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois 61 Teachings of the Buddha by Jack Kornfield (Editor) *62 Telepathy and Etheric Vehicle by Alice A. Bailey *63 The Tibetan Book of the Dead or The After-death Experiences on the Bardo Plane by W.Y. Evans-Wentz *64 Thoughts and Meditations by Kahlil Gibran 65 Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller 66 The Visionary Poetics of Allen Ginsberg by Paul Portuges 67 The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Wilson Watts 68. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig 69. The Screenwriters Workbook by Syd Field 70. Stalin by Edvard Radzinsky https://goodreads/list/show/23942.Books_Read_by_Tupac_Shakur_#comment_form
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