Book Lists
Booklists based on topics and interests, compiled by your friendly Teen Services Librarian!
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ANTIRACISM READING LISTS
- All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely
- How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
- Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance ed. by Bethany C. Morrow
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone
- Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan
- Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America ed. by Ibi Zoboi
- I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
- All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson
- Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches by Audre Lorde
- On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope by Deray McKesson
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
- Things That Make White People Uncomfortable (Young Adult Edition) by Michael Bennett
- Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- How We Fight White Supremacy by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz
- Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Saving Savannah by Tonya Bolden
- Inventing Victoria by Tonya Bolden
- Dream Country by Shannon Gibney
- Fire from the Rock by Sharon Draper
- All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor
- Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson
- Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
- Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron
- Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
- Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
- War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi
- A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney
- Slice of Cherry by Dia Reeves
- Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older
- A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow (coming soon!)
- The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe
- Charming As a Verb by Ben Philippe (coming soon!)
- Running with Lions by Julian Winters
- The Crossover series by Kwame Alexander
- Swing by Kwame Alexander
- Ghost by Jason Reynolds
- Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
- Miles Morales: Spiderman by Jason Reynolds
- Black Panther series by Ta-Nehisi Coates