Not In Our Town
One Book/One Community Book Club Reading List
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Note: This list is a work in progress and has been compiled through suggestions from the NIOT community. It has not been thoroughly reviewed or curated by NIOT. We welcome additional suggestions and comments.
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May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
AAPI Books to Read:
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
How to Pronounce Knife: Stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Children’s Books:
Twenty and Ten by Claire Hucket Bishop
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
The Colors of Us by Karen Katz
It’s Ok To Be Different by Todd Parr
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles
The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
What I Like About Me by Allia Zobel Nolan
Fiction:
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Homeland Elegies: A Novel by Ayad Akhtar
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Tis by Frank McCourt
Nonfiction:
Books About White Supremacist Alt-Right Extremist Groups
Antisemitism: Here and Now by Deborah Lipstadt
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew
The Gift of Our Wounds: A Sikh and a Former White Supremacist Find Forgiveness After Hate by Arno Arr Michaelis IV and Pardeep Singh Kaleka
Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Alt-Right by Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Biography / Memoir
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis Rodrgiuez
Autobiography: the Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Citizen 13660 by by Mine Okubo
Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario
From Darkness to Light by Ray Martinez
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
The Last Time I Wore A Dress by Daphne Scholinski
Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black by Gregory Howard Williams
Listen to the Children: Conversations with Immigrant Families / Escuchemos a los ninos: Conversaciones Con Familias Inmigrantes by Elizabeth Conde-Frazier
Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids by Kip Fulbeck
Memoir of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest
Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American by Jean-Robert Cadet
Retarded Isn't Stupid, Mom! by Sandra Z. Kaufman
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
History
Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
The Indigenous People's History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America by William Julius Wilson
To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions by Amaka Okechukwu
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Exploring Racism, Implicit Bias & Other How To
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer Eberhardt
Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times by Luis Rodriguez
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Poverty
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol
Sexism
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women by Kate Manne
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women by Kate Manne
Books for Educators
Identity Safe Classrooms, Grades 6-12: Pathways to Belonging and Learning by Becki Cohn-Vargas, Alexandrea Creer Kahn and Amy Epstein
Identity Safe Classrooms, Grades 6-12: Pathways to Belonging and Learning by Becki Cohn-Vargas, Alexandrea Creer Kahn and Amy Epstein
Additional Book Lists We Recommend:
Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List
Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List
Explore essential titles selected by the Schomburg Center as it marks 95 years of collecting and preserving Black history, arts, and culture.
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