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I hear it all the time. In coffee shops. On panels lamenting the decline in reading. In educational centers. On the street. While out with friends. There aren't any good books published anymore.

While there may be slight truths in this rather sweeping generalization, I think the problem lies more in the fact that great literature doesn't always get its versus the fact that book publishing conglomerates seem to have made a unified pact to release only mind garbage. Literary gems of all shapes and sizes bless us with their presence every month. The question: Do we acknowledge them?
 
Continue reading to check out my fall book suggestions published by The Root.

Oh and congratulations to Patricia Smith for her National Book Award nomination for her poetry collection BLOOD DAZZLER. It's on my fall book suggestion list!