Here’s my reading list for your perusal. Please note that I’ll likely add and subtract books as I read/reread them. Recommend additions in the comments section!
- Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Beautiful Struggle, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Shadowshaper, Daniel Jose Older
- Ruby, Cynthia Bond
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
- Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee
- To Kill a Mockingbird (reread), Harper Lee
- Someone Knows My Name: A Novel (Movie released as “Book of Negroes”), Laurence Hill
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson
- The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
- The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson
- The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, Ayana Mathis
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War of World War II, Douglass A Blackmon
- The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, Edward E. Baptist
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
- A Man of the People, Chinua Achebe
- So Long a Letter, Mariama Ba
- Are Prisons Obsolete?, Angela Davis
- Racing to Justice, John A. Powell
- The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
- How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, Kiese Laymon
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