Spring/Summer 2022 Book Recommendations
Non-fiction:
March, Book One (Graphic Novel) by John Lewis with Andrew Ayden and Nate Powell
Roadmap to Reconciliation by Brenda Salter McNeil
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutierrez
Haunting the Korean Diaspora by Grace M. Cho
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
fiction:
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
Giovanni’s Room and other works by James Baldwin
children/youth:
Children of God Storybook Bible by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Who Is My Neighbor? by Amy-Jill Levine
Love Will See You Through: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Six Guiding Beliefs by Angela Farris Watkins
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport
Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis by Jabari Asim
Refuge by Anne Booth
How Many Miles To Bethlehem? by Kevin Crossley-Holland
That Baby in the Manger by Anne E. Neuberger
Howard Thurman's Great Hope by Kai Jackson Issa
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
You Matter by Christian Robinson
Change Sings: A Children's Anthem by Amanda Gorman
The ABCs of Black History by Rio Cortez
Winter 2021 Book Recommendations
Adults:
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer