Alex Haley
Born
in Ithaca, New York, The United States
August 11, 1921
Died
February 10, 1992
Genre
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
67 editions
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published
1976
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Queen
by
9 editions
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published
1992
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Mama Flora's Family
by
12 editions
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published
1998
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A Different Kind of Christmas
17 editions
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published
1988
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ஏழு தலைமுறைகள் [Ezhu Thalaimuraigal]
by
2 editions
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published
1980
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The Playboy Interviews
2 editions
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published
1993
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The Man Who Traced America's Roots: His Life, His Works
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Raízes II
6 editions
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published
1988
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Raízes I
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Daufuskie Island
by
2 editions
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published
2007
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“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
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“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness. ”
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Polls
2nd Quarter 2018 (April-June) Long Read Poll
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, 1849, 882 pages
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847, 867 pages
The Arabian Nights, 800, 1049 pages
Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley, 1976, 729 pages
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, 1008, 1182 pages
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1866, 679 pages
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, 1977, 692 pages
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, 1996, 1088 pages
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, 1901, 731 pages
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, 1353, 909 pages
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 1962, 640 pages
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, 1925, 859 pages
The Histories by Herodotus, 400 BCE, 716 pages
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, 1865, 796 pages
The Golden Bough by James George Frazer, 1890, 880 pages
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman, 1982, 936 pages
Five Smooth Stones by Ann Fairbairn, 1966, 933 pages
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