Books Read by Tupac Shakur

As a fan of the more poetic/intellectual side of Tupac, stumbling upon the following information felt like discovering a treasure chest. These literary sources which helped to shape and influence his mind are worth checking out if you're a fan, too.

I came across the list on this website, and all I did was rearrange it in alphabetical order by title.

The website states:

"This is a list of books read by Tupac during his lifetime including while he was at the Baltimore School of Arts and in prison... The topics include black history, the afterlife, religion including Zen, war, women's liberation, music, and poetry. Reading these books, it is clear how they molded 2Pac's thinking and language..."

The list is apparently taken from the 'Thug Angel' documentary. So once again, big thanks to AllEyezOnMe.com as well as ThugLifeArmy.com for the information.



Books Read by Tupac Shakur
  Ah, This!
Written by: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh    All God's Children:
The Boskett Family and the American Tradition of Violence
Written by: Fox Butterfield    All You Need to Know About the Music Business
Written by: Donald Passman    And Still I Rise
Written by: Maya Angelou    Art of War
Written by: Sun Tzu    Assata: An Autobiography
Written by: Assata Shakur    At the Bottom of the River
Written by: Jamaica Kincaid    The Autobiography of Malcolm X
As told to: Alex Haley    Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
Written by: A.C. Bhaktive-danta Swami Prabhupada    Black Like Me
Written by: John Howard Griffin    Black Sister:
Poetry by Black American Women, 1746 to 1980
Edited by Earlene Stetson    Blues People
Written by: Amiri Baraka    Catcher in the Rye
Written by: J.D. Salinger    The Complete Illustrated Book of the Psychic Sciences
Written by: Walter B. Gibson and Litzka R. Gibson    The Confessions of Nat Turner
Written by: William Styron    The Destiny of the Nations
Written by: Alice A. Bailey    The Diary of Anais Nin
Edited and with a Preface by: Gunther Stuhlmann    The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
Written by: E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil    The Grapes of Wrath
Written by: John Steinbeck    Great White Lie:
Slavery, Emancipation and Changing Racial Attitudes
Written by: Jack Gratus    The Harder We Run:
Black Workers Since the Civil War
Written by: William H. Harris    Here and Hereafter
Written by: Ruth Montgomery    I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Written by: Maya Angelou    I Shall Not Be Moved
Written by: Maya Angelou    Imitation of Christ
Written by: Thomas a Kempis    In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
Written by: Alice Walker    Initiation
Written by: Elisabeth Haich    Interesting People:
Black American History Makers
Written by: George L. Lee    James Baldwin: The Legacy
Edited by: Quincy Troupe    Kabbalah
Written by: Gersham Scholem    Life and Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Written by: Ira Peck    Life as Carola
Written by: Joan Grant    Linda Goodman's Sun Signs
Written by: Linda Goodman    Makes Me Wanna Holler
Written by: Nathan McCall    The Meaning of Masonry
Written by: W.L. Wilmshurst    Moby Dick
Written by: Herman Melville    Monster:
The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
Written by: Sanyika Shakur    Music of Black Americans: A History
Written by: Eileen Southern    Mysticism
Written by: Evelyn Underhill    Native Son
Written by: Richard Wright    Nature, Man and Woman
Written by: Alan W. Watts    1984
Written by: George Orwell   No Man Is an Island
Written by: Thomas Merton    Nostradamus: The Millennium & Beyond
Written by: Peter Lorie    One Hundred Years of Solitude  Written by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez    The Phenomenon of Man
Written by: Teilhard de Chardin    Ponder on This: A Compilation
From the Writings of: Alice A Bailey & the Tibetan Master, Djwhal Khul    The Practical Encyclopedia of Natural Healing
Written by: Mark Bricklin    The Prince
Written by: Niccolo Machiavelli    The Psychedelic Experience:
A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Written by: Timothy Leary, Ph.D, Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., Richard Alpert, Ph.D.    The Psychic Realm
Written by: Naomi A. Hintze and J. Gaither Pratt, Ph.D.    A Raisin in the Sun
Written by: Lorraine Hansberry    Roots
Written by: Alex Haley    Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
Written by: Jonathan Kozol    Secret Splendor
Written by: Charles Essert    Serving Humanity
From the writings of: Alice A. Bailey    Sisterhood is Powerful:  Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement
Written by: Robin Morgan    The State of the World Atlas
Written by: Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal    Social Essays
Written by: LeRoi Jones    The Souls of Black Folk
Written by:W.E. Burghardt DuBois    Teachings of the Buddha
Written by: Jack Kornfield    Telepathy
Written by: Alice A Bailey   The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Written by: W.Y. Evans-Wentz    Thoughts and Meditations
Written by: Kahlil Gibran   Tropic of Cancer
Written by: Henry Miller   The Visionary Poetics of Allen Ginsberg
Written by: Paul Portuges   Wisdom of Insecurity
Written by: A.N. Watts   Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Written by: Robert M. Pirsig