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*Fictional Books

Books

We recommend a warm drink, blanket, and some background music to go with your book of choice. Really sets the atmosphere :)

Black Community

  • When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Cullors

  • The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

  • Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness by Michelle Alexander

  • Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis

  • We Were 8 Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis

  • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

  • Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Road to Repair by Danielle Sered

  • They Can't Kill Us All by Wesely Lowery

  • Heavy by Kiese Laymon

  • The Pretty One by Keah Brown

  • How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones

  • Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism by Bell Hooks

  • Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

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

  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

  • Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennett Jr.

  • Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

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  • *The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • *The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

  • *Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

  • *A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

  • *Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

  • *Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

  • *Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

  • *The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

  • *Sula by Toni Morrison

  • *The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

  • *Beloved by Toni Morrison

  • *Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • *Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

  • *The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Latinx American Community

  • The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú 

  • When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago 

  • Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir by Jean Guerrero 

  • Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli

  • Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa 

  • Native Country of the Heart by Cherríe Moraga 

  • Children of the Land by Marcello Hernandez Castillo

  • American Like Me: A Life Between Cultures by America Ferrera 

  • Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez 

  • Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa by Rigoberto González 

  • The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail  by Óscar Martínez 

  • Bird of Paradise: How I became Latina by Raquel Cepeda 

  • American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood by Marie Arana 

  • Occupied America: A History of Chicanos by Rodolfo Acuña

  • All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderland by Stephanie Elizondo Griest 

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  • *House of Broken Angels by Luís Alberto Urrea 

  • *Sabrina and Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

  • *Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli  

  • *The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

  • *One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 

  • *How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez 

  • *Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capo Crucet

  • *I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sánchez

  • *Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-García

  • *The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz 

  • *Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

Arab American Community

  •  The Ungrateful Refugee:  What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri

  • White Washed: America's Invisible Middle Eastern Minority by John Tehranian

  • The Ballad of Abu Ghraib by Philip Gourevitch

  • Fixing Hell: An Army Psychologist Confronts Abu Ghraib by Colonel Larry C. James 

  • How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi

  • The Arab Americans: A History by Gregory Orfalea

  • This Muslim American Life: Dispatched from the War on Terror by Moustafa Bayoumi

  • Arab in America by Toufic El Rassi 

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  • *The American Granddaughter by Inaam Kachachi

  • *The Arch and the Butterfly by Mohammed Achari

  • *Arabian Jazz by Diana Abu-Jaber

  • *Once in a Promised Land by Laila Halaby

  • *I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters by Rabih Alameddine

  • *The Book of Khalid by Ameen Rihani

  • *Escape from Aleppo by N.H. Senzai

  • *50 Water Dreams by Siwar Masannat

  • *Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber

"The Purpose of the Story Teller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon."

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-Brandon Sanderson 

MultiRacial/mulitethnic community

  • Black, White, Other by Lisa Funderberg

  • Half and Half: Writers Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural by Claudine Chiawei O’Hearn

  • The Face: A Time Code by Ruth Ozeki

  • The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute To His White Mother by James McBride

  • Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

  • Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away by June Cross

  • Black, White, and Jewish by Rebecca Walker

  • On Gold Mountain: The 100 Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family by Lisa See

  • Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama

  • What Are You? Voices of Mixed-Race Young People by Pearl Fuyo Gaskins

  • Being Biracial: Where Our Secret Worlds Collide by Sarah Ratiff

  • Self-Portrait in Black and White by Thomas Chatterton Williams

  • Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? A Parent’s Guide to Raising Multiracial Children by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

  • Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons by Jane Lazarre

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  • *Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience by Chandra Prasad

  • *Mexican Whiteboy by Matt de la Peña

  • *Caucasia by Danzy Senna

  • *Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

  • *Pride by Ibi Zoboi

  • *Mixed Feelings by Avant Jogia

  • *The Other Half of My Heart by Sundee T. Frazier

  • *On Beauty by Zadie Smith

  • *Loving Day by Mat Johnson

  • *When the Stars Lead to You by Ronni Davis

  • *Apple in the Middle by Dawn Quigley

  • *Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay

  • *This Train Is Being Held by Ismée Williams

  • *The Death of Jim Loney by James Welch

  • *Oreo by Fran Ross

  • *Miracle’s Boys by Jaqueline Woodson

  • *Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan

  • *The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Anti-Racism and White Supremacy

  • So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

  • White Fragility by Robin Diangelo

  • How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

  • Witnessing Whiteness by Shelly Tochluk

  • The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching About Race and Racism to People Who Don't Want to Know by Tema Okun

  • The Possessive Investment of Whiteness: How White People Profited from Identity Politics by George Lipsitz 

  • How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood by Jim Grimsley

  • White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson

  • Stamped From the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X Kendi

  • America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallace

  • Racism Without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  • This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell

  • Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt

  • Incarceration Nation by Peter K. Enns

  • Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney López

Indigenous

 Community

  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

  • 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann

  • Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

  • From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii by Haunani-Kay Trask 

  • Abandon Me: Memoirs by Melissa Febos

  • Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward 

  • Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir by Deborah Miranda

  • The Tao of Raven: An Alaskan Native Memoir by Ernestine Hayes

  • Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hards Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga

  • Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

  • #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale

  • An Indigenous People's History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  • As Long as the Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight from Environmental Justice to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

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  • *Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling

  • *There There by Tommy Orange

  • *Indian No More by Charlene McMannis and Traci Sorell 

  • *The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich

  • *Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder by Kent Nerburn

  • *Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative by Ignatia Broker 

  • *The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie 

Asian & Pacific Islander Community

  •  All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

  • Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

  • America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan

  • The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee

  • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong 

  • The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

  • The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

  • The Body Papers by Grace Talusan

  • The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

  • Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong

  • Strangers From a Different Shore by Ronald Takaki

  • Asian American Dreams by Helen Zia

  • Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank H. Wu

  • Haunting the Korean Diaspora by Grace Cho

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  • *Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

  • *Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden

  • *The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

  • *Clay Walls by Kim Ronyoung 

  • *Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao

  • *Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay

  • *Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu

  • *The Leavers by Lisa Ko

  • *America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo

  • *Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport

  • *The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung

Advocacy, Organizing, and activism

  • Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Marie Brown​

  • Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva

  • The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker

  • Free All Along: The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Interviews by Stephen Dury Smith and Catherine Ellis

  • Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminist are Changing the World From the Tweets to the Streets by Feminista Jones

  • Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Marie Brown

  • Fight Like a Mother by Shannon Watts

  • The Next Republic by D.D. Guttenplan

  • Road Map for Revolutionaries by Elisa Camahort Page

  • Unladylike by Cristen Conger

  • We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson

  • Steal This Country by Alexandra Styron

  • Glimmer of Hope by the founders of the March For Our Lives 

  • Change of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change by Nick Cooney

  • The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World Without Losing Your Way by Hillary Rettig

  • Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It by Jamie Margolin and Greta Thunberg

  • Organizing While Undocumented by Kevin Escudero 

  • Dictionary of the Undoing by John Freeman

  • Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit

  • How Organizations Develop Activists by Hahrie Han

  • This is an Uprising by Mark and Paul Engler

  • Blueprint for Revolution by Srdja Popovic

  • Incarcerated Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World by Baz Dreisinger

  • The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

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