2023 Reads
• A Woman of Endurance: A Novel, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
• The Girl at the Back of the Bus, Suzette D. Harrison
• The Art of Confessing: Words + Music | Vol. 34, Jazmine Sullivan
• Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism, Daisy Hernández - editor, Bushra Rehman - editor
• The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide, Steven Thrasher
• The First Ladies, Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
• African Origin of Civilization - The Myth or Reality, Cheikh Anta Diop
• My Name Is Ona Judge, Suzette D. Harrison
• Demon Copperhead: A Novel, Barbara Kingsolver
• Decolonizing the Body: Healing, Body-Centered Practices for Women of Color to Reclaim Confidence, Dignity, and Self-Worth, Kelsey Blackwell, Christena Cleveland PhD - foreword
• Summer of '85, Chris Morrow, Kevin Hart, Charlamagne Tha God, SBH Productions
• Every Man a King: A King Oliver Novel, Walter Mosley
• Rogue Justice: A Thriller, Stacey Abrams
• Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk, Delores S. Williams, Katie G. Cannon, Foreword
• The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook, Frances Haugen
• King: A Life, Jonathan Eig
• Scatterlings: A Novel, Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe
• Dispossession, Tayari Jones Trust, Hernan Diaz
• The Personal Librarian, Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
• The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism, Lerone A. Martin
• Fixit: An IQ Novel, Joe Ide
• In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, Christina Sharpe
• Simply Lies, David Baldacci
• The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart
• The Son of Mr. Suleman: A Novel, Eric Jerome Dickey
• The Black Panthers Speak, Philip S. Foner - editor, Clayborne Carson - introduction, Barbara Ransby - foreword
• Allegedly, Tiffany D. Jackson
• Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Third Edition, Cedric J. Robinson, Robin D.G. Kelley - foreword, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard - preface, Damien Sojoyner - preface
• The Armor of Light: A Novel (Kingsbridge, Book 5), Ken Follett
• A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story, Elaine Brown
• Say Her Name, Dreda Say Mitchell, Ryan Carter
• Where Wild Peaches Grow: A Novel, Cade Bentley
• Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, Rebecca Hall, Tyler English-Beckwith - adapter
• Migrations: A History of Where We All Come From, DK
• An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States, Kyle T. Mays
• Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee, Shannon Lee
• Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us About Wisdom, Persistence, and Strength,
Kat Armas
• Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir, Donna M. Johnson
• The Divided Mind of the Black Church: Theology, Piety, and Public Witness, Raphael G. Warnock
• Good White Racist?: Confronting Your Role in Racial Injustice, Kerry Connelly
• Spare, Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
• Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy, Jamie Raskin
• The Melanin Empath: Discover the Knowledge of Melanated Beings Born with Empath Energy, Jade Asikiwe
• Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America, Michael Harriot
• In the Margins: A Transgender Man's Journey with Scripture, Shannon T. L. Kearns
• Anatomy of the Spirit, Caroline Myss
• Every Man a King: A King Oliver Novel, Walter Mosley
• When God Made You, Matthew Paul Turner
Read in 2022
• Small Doses, Amanda Seales
• Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live, Martha Beck
• All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope - and Hard Pills to Swallow - About Fighting for Black Lives, Andre Henry
• Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem, April Ryan
• The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, Heather McGhee
• The Vanishing Half: A Novel, Brit Bennett
• I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays, Tom Segura
• The Breach: The Untold Story of the Investigation into January 6th, Denver Riggleman
• The Fifties, David Halberstam
• Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith, Martha Beck
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, Katherine Stewart
• The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism, Kyla Schuller
• Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery, Andrés Reséndez
• Miseducated: A Memoir, Brandon P. Fleming
• Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic, Martha Beck
• Ayiti, Roxane Gay
• This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us, Cole Arthur Riley
• Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown
• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
• Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, Ida B. Wells
• As the Wicked Watch: The First Jordan Manning Novel, Tamron Hall
• After Jesus, Before Christianity: A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movements, Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott, Hal Taussig, The Westar Institute
• This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy, Jonathan Martin, Alexander Burns
• The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
• The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness, Gregory Boyle
• After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging: Theological Education Between the Times, Willie James Jennings
• A Ballad of Love and Glory: A Novel, Reyna Grande
• The Moor's Account, Laila Lalami
• When I Spoke in Tongues: A Story of Faith and Its Loss, Jessica Wilbanks
• We Are Not Like Them: A Novel, Christine Pride, Jo Piazza
• Will, Will Smith, Mark Manson
• Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World, Rosalind Miles
• Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices, Thich Nhat Hanh
• The Sweetness of Water: A Novel, Nathan Harris
• Black Cop's Kid: An Essay, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century: Unabridged Selections, Alice Wong
• All the Colors Came Out: A Father, a Daughter, and a Lifetime of Lessons, Kate Fagan
• Humankind: A Hopeful History, Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton
• Peril, Bob Woodward, Robert Costa
• Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want, Martha Beck
• Slay, Brittney Morris
• Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine, Emily Bernard
• Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual, Luvvie Ajayi Jones
• Angela Davis: An Autobiography, Angela Davis
• Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life, Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell
• Out of Zion: Meeting Jesus in the Shadow of the Mormon Temple, Lisa Brockman
• Smoke, Joe Ide
• The History of White People, Nell Irvin Painter
• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, Resmaa Menakem MSW LICSW SEP
• The Golden Age, Gore Vidal
• The Housewarming, S. E. Lynes
• You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity, Jamie Lee Finch
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition, Paulo Freire, Myra Bergman Ramos - translator
• A Promised Land, Barack Obama
• The Light We Carry, Michelle Obama
• A Disability History of the United States, Kim E. Nielsen
Read in 2021
• Grace: A Novel, Natashia Deón
• The Sun Does Shine, Anthony Ray Hinton
• Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said
• Nice White Ladies: The Truth About White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It, Jessie Daniels
• The Death of Vivek Oji: A Novel, Akwaeke Emezi
• State of Terror: A Novel, Louise Penny & Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement, Tarana Burke
• This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman, Ilhan Omar
• Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, Glory Edim
• The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor, Martin Meredith
• The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life, Thomas M. Sterner
• See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love, Valarie Kaur
• While Justice Sleeps: A Novel, Stacey Abrams
• The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America, Adam Serwer
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer
• How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, Clint Smith
• You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories About Racism, Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar
• Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans, Ronald Takaki
• Hollywood: A Novel: Narratives of Empire, Gore Vidal
• Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, James Q. Whitman
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, David W. Blight
• Real American: A Memoir, Julie Lythcott-Haims
• Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery, Mark Charles & Soong-Chan Rah
• Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit, Mary-Frances Winters
• God of the Oppressed, James H. Cone
• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, Cathy Park Hong
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
• Why Religion?: A Personal Story, Elaine Pagels
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson
• White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, Robert P. Jones
• The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir, Michele Harper
• Surrender, White People!: Our Unconditional Terms for Peace, D. L. Hughley & Doug Moe
• The Sympathizer: A Novel, Viet Thanh Nguyen
• A Black Women's History of the United States, Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross
• Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid
•. A Dream Called Home, Reyna Grande
• The Overstory, Richard Powers
• Know My Name: A Memoir, Chanel Miller