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Recommended Reading
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Fiction for Young Adults
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
Allegedly by Tiffany D Jackson
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
American Street by Ibi Aanu Zoboi
Anger is A Gift by Mark Oshiro
Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
Fat Angie by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Gabi, A Girl In Pieces by Isabel Quintero
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Home Going by Tanya Lee Stone
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
The Sun is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon
We Were Here by Matt de la Peña
“X” A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz
Fiction for College Age Readers & Beyond
Non-Fiction for Young Adults
Being Jazz” My Life As A (Transgender Teen) by Jazz Jennings
Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up by Laura Atkins & Stan Yogi
“Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching” A Young Black Man’s Education by Mychal Denzel Smith
Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology Amy Sonnie
Non-Fiction for College Age Readers & Beyond
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Dear America, Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
Privilege, Power and Difference by Allan Johnson
See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGee
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Uprooting Racism by Paul Kivel
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo