Books Recommended by All Y'All

Some of these books are for furthering your understanding of history and/or political issues. Many are by or about people who may not look like you. Some are for fun. Some are for healing. All of them come from either my own reading or the recommendations of folks who read my newsletter. We'll be building this over time.
I have final say on what's included. My website, my rules.

Decolonize your bookshelves, y'all.


Non-Fiction

• Our Time is Now by Stacey Abrams
• To Be A Water Protector by Winona La Duke
• Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
• My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
• The Other Wes Moore: One Name Two Fates by Wes Moore and Tavis Smiley
• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Fiction

• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• Indigo by Beverly Jenkins
• The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
• The Overstory by Richard Powers
• The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers
• The Underground Railroad by Coleson Whitehead

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Young Adult (YA)

• Color Me In by Natash Diaz
• I'm Not Dying With You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
• The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
  

Children's Lit

• We Are Water Protectors (new Caldecott winner) picture book by Carole Lindstrom
• Bee Love (Can Be Hard)  a picture book by Alan Page and Kamie Page (only available at this link)
• Letters From Cuba (middle school-ish, 10 - 13) by Ruth Behar