My Favorite Reads

Hollis France, associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, spent the first 10 years of her life in Guyana (the only English-speaking country in South America). She earned a master’s in philosophy and a doctorate in political science from the City University of New York Graduate Center, before starting at the College in 2000. Her mainstay classes as chair are International Political Economy and Global Gender Politics.

Her list of favorite books spans from her teenage years to now. “I view a good book as one that produces empathy and allows me to walk in the shoes of someone else,” she says.

1. Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
2. Miguel Street, V.S. Naipaul
3. Love Poems, Nikki Giovanni
4. The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
5. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Graeber and David Wengrow
6. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
7. Imperial Intimacies, Hazel Carby
8. The Psychosis of Whiteness, Kehinde Andrews
9. How the Word Is Passed, Clint Smith
10. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison