Reading Lists
Members' Reading Suggestions - Adult
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr
Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD
Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality by Joel Spring
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi *
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks (or anything at all by bell hooks) *
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz
Members' Reading Suggestions - Young Adult
Night * by Elie Wiesel
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Members' Reading Suggestions - Children
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss and EG Keller (illustrator)
A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara (writer and illustrator)
Antiracist Baby * by, Ibram X. Kendi and Ashley Lukashevsky (illustrator)
Chocolate Milk Por Favor by Maria Dismondy and Donna Farrell (illustrator)
Encounter by Jane Yolen and David Shannon (illustrator)
Families, Families, Families by Suzanne Lang and Max Lang
Harriet Gets Carried Away * by Jessie Sima (writer and illustrator)
I'm Not Just a Scribble by Diane Alber (writer and illustrator)
Jabari Jumps * by Gaia Cornwall (writer and illustrator)
Little Leaders Books * by Vashti Harrison (writer and illustrator)
Malala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai and Kerascoët (illustrator)
Santa's Husband by Daniel Kibblesmith and A.P. Quach (illustrator)
Strictly No Elephants by Lisa Mantchev and Taeeun Yoo (illustrator)
The Day You Begin * by Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael López (illustrator)
Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts and Noah Z. Jones (illustrator)
We Are All Wonders by R. J. Palacio (writer and illustrator)
Worm Loves Worm * by J. J. Austrian and Mike Curato (illustrator)
(*) Means this is by a BIPOC, LGBTQ+ or Jewish author (or all three as our identities are overlapping!). While we value all education, we stress it is important to read works by the authors that have this as a lived experience.