The Library

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Here you will find an alphabetical listing of all the books that have been discussed on our page. Clicking on the book title will take you directly to the book’s discussion page.

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A

• An African American and Latinx History of the United States (ReVisioning History) by Paul Ortiz
• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely
• All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Asian American Histories of the United States (ReVisioning History) by Catherine Ceniza Choy

B

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Black Family Who Built America: The McKissacks, Two Centuries of Daring Pioneers by Cheryl McKissack Daniel
• A Black Women’s History of the United States (ReVisioning History) by Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World by Mason Funk
• Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renee Watson
• Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

C

• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• The Constitution of the United States of America: The Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, The Bill of Rights, and Amendments XI-XXVII

D

• The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs The United States of America by Eric Cervini
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• A Disability History of the United States (ReVisioning History) by Kim E. Nielsen

E

F

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy by Albert Marrin
• Flying Lessons & Other Stories by Ellen Oh (editor)

G

• Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• Goodnight Racism by Ibram X. Kendi

H

• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
• How to Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

I

• If I Don’t Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings by Amye Archer & Loren Kleinman (editors)
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (ReVisioning History) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

J

• Jacob’s Missing Book by Sarah & Ian Hoffman
• Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love

K

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

L

• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W Loewen
• Lily & Dunkin by Donna Gephart
• Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding

M

• The Mafia and the Gays by Phillip Crawford Jr
• Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D Jackson
• Monster by Walter Dean Myers
• Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
• My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
• My Year in the Middle by Lila Quintero Weaver

N

• The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 by Mary E. Jones Parrish

O

• One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

P

• A People’s History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium by Chris Harman
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Q

• A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski
• A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison by Dwayne Betts

R

• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
• The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• Refugee by Alan Gratz
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D Taylor

S

• Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America by Michael John Within
• Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, & Ann Hazzard
• Something Happened to My Dad: A Story About Immigration and Family Separation by Ann Hazzard & Vivianna Aponte Rivera
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising That Changed America by Martin Duberman
• Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. Loewen

T

• That Flag by Tameka Fryer Brown
• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
• This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson
• This is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkmap
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism, and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism by Daniel Sjursen
• The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu

U

• The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Peter Kuznick

V

W

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
• We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson
• Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Gloria Edim (compiled)
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Dr. Robin DiAngelo
• White Fragility: Why Understanding Racism Can Be So Hard for White People (Adapted for Young Adults) by Dr. Robin DiAngelo, adapted by Toni Graves Williamson & Ali Michael
• White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
• Without Harm: For White Women Unlearning the Harm They Call Help by Camille Kirksey
• The Women’s History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years by Rosalind Miles

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• The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
• The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
• 1984 by George Orwell