• salvage the bones - jesmyn ward
• in limbo - deb jj lee
• my lesbian experience with loneliness - kabi nagata
• the myth of normal - daniel + gabor maté
• very important people - ashley mears
• anastasia krupnik - lois lowry
• annie on my mind - nancy garden
• angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging - louise rennison
• blubber - judy blume
• uglies - scott westerfield

fiction (black lit)

• brown girl, brownstones - paule marshall
• a measure of time - rosa guy
• the friends - rosa guy
• betsey brown - ntozake shange
• black boy - richard wright
• native son - richard wright
• the ways of white folks - langston hughes

fiction (YA)

• the alice series - phyllis reynolds naylor
• when you reach me - rebecca stead

fiction (children's lit)

• roll of thunder, hear my cry - mildred d. taylor
• the velveteen rabbit - margery williams bianco
• the little prince - antoine de saint-exupéry
• crazy lady! - jane leslie conly
• the graduation of jake moon - barbara park
• the higher power of lucky - susan patron
• the view from saturday - e.l. konigsburg
• miss popularity - francesco sedita

fiction (other)

• fahrenheit 451 - ray bradbury
• my name is asher lev - chaim potok

nonfiction

• salt, fat, acid, heat - samin nosrat
• hunt, gather, parent - michaeleen doucleff
• here comes everybody: the power of organizing without organizations - clay shirky
• one nation under god: how corporate america invented christian america - kevin m. kruse
• black feminist thought - patricia hill collins
• pushout: the criminalization of black girls in schools - monique w. morris
• no shortcuts: organizing for power in the new gilded age - jane f. mcalevey
• pedigree: how elite students get elite jobs - lauren a. rivera
• the freedom quilting bee: folk art and the civil rights movement - nancy callahan