A&D is pretty much TDVC.  Same format and storyline.. just a different setting and situation.

1) The Color Purple- the story of a black woman and her life, the diction (i think that's the right word?) is of someone rather uneducated. quite a moving book though.

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa -- Mathabane, Mark; great account of the injuries of Apartheid.

Editorial Reviews
Female Beats wrote poetry, took drugs, went on the road, listened to jazz, and lived on the fringe just as the men did, but their accomplishments are not as widely recognized. This volume attempts to correct this oversight by profiling 40 women of the Beat generation and publishing samples of their work. Well-known poets Diane di Prima and Denise Levertov appear in the volume, along with the muses of male writers and other women who never became famous at all. As Brenda Knight notes in her introduction, counterculture women in the 1950s and 1960s faced difficult obstacles: "To be unmarried, a poet, an artist, to bear biracial children, to go on the road was doubly shocking for a woman, and social condemnation was high." The first portion of the anthology is devoted to women who were not Beats but who set the stage for the movement. Josephine Miles wrote poetry and mentored the younger Beat poets at Berkeley, while Madeline Gleason founded the San Francisco Poetry Festival. In the "Muses" section are short biographies of wives and girlfriends of famous male writers such as Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady. It's widely known that William S. Burroughs shot his wife Joan Vollmer Adams Burroughs; this book fills in other details of her wild and short life. Profiles of writers such as Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, Janna McClure, and Janine Pommy Vega account for the rest of the anthology. The lives these women led are as interesting as their writing, and Women of the Beat Generation honors their determination to live outside the mainstream. --Jill Marquis

-Finding Blue : By Lois Lowry; it's a companion to The giver, and an amazing story

-Prozac Nation: I'm not sure who this is by, but is one of the best books I have ever read. It's a memoir about a girls life. She attempts suicide and survives. I highly reccomend it

The Spook Who Sat by the Door by Sam Greenlee. I first heard about this book when I was in the seventh-about-to-be-eighth grade (this was during the summer) when I went to Mexico with a few kids from my Spanish class. The teacher who lead the trip, who I admired, said that he read the book and it changed his life. Fast forward nearly seven years later and I'm finally getting around to reading it. It's out of print and quite controversial so my home library didn't carry it, or at least I didn't look well enough. The copy I'm reading is actually my dad's, I took it from him when I went home for Winter Break. So far I like it, although I have some problems with the protagonist, but when I finish it, I'll give a full/better review.

I think it's more of writing trying to emulate Southern Black vernacular than Celie being uneducated. I mean, that's what she is, or at least she doesn't have formal education, but she's in no way debilitated by it.

I'm currently reading Pride and Prejudice for my Brit Lit class and surprisingly, this is my first time. I like it so far. I'm also going to start the Odyssey pretty soon, another one that I've surprisingly have not read before, even though I love Greek mythology. Grr, I need to finish The Spook That Sat By the Door this weekend.