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Social Justice Reading List
Books in the following list are referenced by one or more of the following: We Need Diverse Books' Resources for Race Equity and Inclusion, the National Book Foundation's National Book Award, or the American Library Association's Youth Media Awards or book list (specifically the Coretta Scott King Award, Morris Award, and the Amelia Bloomer Book List.
All of these books are available to check out from the library's print or digital collections using the Libby or Hoopla apps.
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Dear Martin
Nic Stone
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds
Monday's Not Coming
Tiffany D. Jackson
Monster
Walter Dean Myers
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X, Malcolm Little, Alex Haley
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Fatal Invention
Dorothy Roberts
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
March
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
March
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin
March
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Stamped
Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds
This Book Is Anti-Racist
Tiffany Jewell
