20 Books Read By Tupac Shakur: How Many Have You Read?

Lots of people try to understand the mind of Tupac through his writings, music, and interviews. What’s seldom talked about is the fact that he was an avid reader. So I searched around for just a few of the books he was known to have read. This website took the time to list most of them.  I thought that I would just grab 20. How many of these have you read?

1. The Souls of Black Folk  by W.E.B. Du Bois

2. The Phenomenon of Man  by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

3. Roots: The Saga of an American Family  by Alex Haley

4. Black Like Me  by John Howard Griffin

5. Stalin  by Эдвард Радзинский

6. Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness

7. Teachings of the Buddha  by Jack Kornfield

8. Serving Humanity  by Alice A. Bailey

9. Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member  by Sanyika Shakur

10. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale  by Herman Melville

11. Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America  by Nathan McCall

12. The Autobiography of Malcolm X  by Malcolm X

13. Assata: An Autobiography  by Assata Shakur

14. The Prince  by Niccolò Machiavelli

15. Native Son  by Richard Wright

16. The Bhagavad Gita  by Anonymous

17. The Art of War  by Sun Tzu

18. 1984  by George Orwell

19. And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

20. The Life And Words Of Martin Luther King Jr.  by Ira Peck