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 [2] by Alexander Chee
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning [5] by Cathy Park Hong
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations [6] by Mira Jacob
How to Pronounce Knife: Stories [7] by Souvankham Thammavongsa
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous [8] by Ocean Vuong
Interior Chinatown [9] by Charles Yu
Children’s Books:
Twenty and Ten [10] by Claire Hucket Bishop
Al Capone Does My Shirts [11] by Gennifer Choldenko
The Colors of Us [12] by Karen Katz
It’s Ok To Be Different [13] by Todd Parr
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry [14] by Mildred Taylor
Freedom Summer [15] by Deborah Wiles
The Other Side [16] by Jacqueline Woodson
What I Like About Me [17] by Allia Zobel Nolan
Fiction:
The Tortilla Curtain [18] by T.C. Boyle
Parable of the Sower [19] by Octavia Butler
Middlesex [20] by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time [21] by Mark Haddon
Interior Chinatown [9] by Charles Yu
Interpreter of Maladies [22] by Jhumpa Lahiri
Homeland Elegies: A Novel [23] by Ayad Akhtar
Angela's Ashes [24] by Frank McCourt
Tis [25] by Frank McCourt
Nonfiction:
Books About White Supremacist Alt-Right Extremist Groups
Antisemitism: Here and Now [26] by Deborah Lipstadt
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America [27] by Kathleen Belew
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America [27] by Kathleen Belew
Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy [28] by Talia Lavin
The Gift of Our Wounds: A Sikh and a Former White Supremacist Find Forgiveness After Hate [29] by Arno Arr Michaelis IV and Pardeep Singh Kaleka
Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Alt-Right [30] by Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Biography / Memoir
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. [31] by Luis Rodrgiuez
Autobiography: the Story of My Experiments with Truth [32] by Mahatma Gandhi
Between the World and Me [33] by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Citizen 13660 [34] by by Mine Okubo
Enrique's Journey [35] by Sonia Nazario
From Darkness to Light [36] by Ray Martinez
The Glass Castle: A Memoir [37] by Jeannette Walls
The Last Time I Wore A Dress [38] by Daphne Scholinski
Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black [39] by Gregory Howard Williams
Listen to the Children: Conversations with Immigrant Families / Escuchemos a los ninos: Conversaciones Con Familias Inmigrantes [40] by Elizabeth Conde-Frazier
Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids [41] by Kip Fulbeck
Memoir of a Race Traitor [42] by Mab Segrest
Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American [43] by Jean-Robert Cadet
Retarded Isn't Stupid, Mom! [44] by Sandra Z. Kaufman
Under the Banner of Heaven [45] by Jon Krakauer
History
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States [46] by Erika Lee
Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza [47] by Gloria Anzaldua
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent [48] by Isabel Wilkerson
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America [49] by Richard Rothstein
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America [50] by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America [50] by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities [51] by Craig Steven Wilder
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism [52] by Edward E. Baptist
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America [53] by Thomas King
The Indigenous People's History of the United States [54] by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness [55] by Michelle Alexander
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond [56] by Marc Lamont Hill
Stamped from the Beginning [57] by Ibram X. Kendi
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow [58] by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America [59] by William Julius Wilson
To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions [60] by Amaka Okechukwu
The Warmth of Other Suns [61] by Isabel Wilkerson
Exploring Racism, Implicit Bias & Other How To
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do [62] by Jennifer Eberhardt
Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times [63] by Luis Rodriguez
How to Be an Antiracist [64] by Ibram X. Kendi
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor [65] by Layla Saad
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America [66] by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
So You Want to Talk About Race [67] by Ijeoma Oluo
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do [68] by Claude M. Steele
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide [69] by Carol Anderson
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism [70] by Robin DiAngelo
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race [71] by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria And Other Conversations About Race [72] by Beverly Daniel Tatum
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide [69] by Carol Anderson
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism [70] by Robin DiAngelo
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race [71] by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria And Other Conversations About Race [72] by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Poverty
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation [73] by Jonathan Kozol
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools [74] by Jonathan Kozol
Sexism
The Beauty Myth : How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women [75] by Naomi Wolf
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny [76] by Kate Manne
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women [77] by Kate Manne
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women [77] by Kate Manne
Books for Educators
Identity Safe Classrooms, Grades 6-12: Pathways to Belonging and Learning [78] by Becki Cohn-Vargas, Alexandrea Creer Kahn and Amy Epstein
Identity Safe Classrooms, Grades 6-12: Pathways to Belonging and Learning [78] by Becki Cohn-Vargas, Alexandrea Creer Kahn and Amy Epstein
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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