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Racial and Social Justice Reading List
These books are available at Jaquith Public Library (if they are not already checked out!) This is not an exhaustive list, but it is a starting point.
Adult-focused Titles

Adult Nonfiction
  • How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  • I am Malala: the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai 
  • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
  • Locking Up Our Own: crime and punishment in Black America by James Foreman
  • My Grandmother's Hands : racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies by Resmaa Menakem
  • Never Caught: the Washingtons’ relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
  • The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
  • So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  • Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
  • Waking Up White : and finding myself in the story of race by Debby Irving 
  • White Fragility: why it is so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin DiAngelo

Adult Fiction
  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
  • A Particular Kind of Black Man by Tope Folarin
  • Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Song Yet Sung by James McBride
  • The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Youth-focused Titles

YA / Middle-grade Nonfiction
  • A hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival by Melissa Fleming
  • The 57 Bus: a true story of two teenagers and the crime that changed their lives by Dashka Slater 
  • Becoming Kareem by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 
  • Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson 
  • Buried lives : the enslaved people of George Washington's Mount Vernon by Carla Killough McClafferty
  • Girl Rising: changing the world one girl at a time by Tanya Lee Stone
  • Just Mercy: adapted for young adults by Bryan Stevenson
  • Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids by Deborah Ellis
  • March Forward, Girl by Melba Beals 
  • March Graphic Novels (Books 1-3) by John Lewis 
  • Mississippi Bridge by Mildred Taylor
  • #NotYourPrincess: voices of Native American women edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale 
  • Stamped: racism, antiracism, and you by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
  • This Book is Antiracist by Tiffany Jewel
  • This Promise of Change by Jo Ann Allen Boyce 
  • When Stars are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
Picture Books
  • A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
  • All The Colors We Are by Katie Kissenger
  • All the Way to the Top: how one girl’s fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything  by Annette Bay Pimentel
  • Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes;
  • The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodsong
  • Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Brian 
  • A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson
  • Going Down Home with Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons
  • Hammering for Freedom by Rita L. Hubbard
  • Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
  • It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear
  • It Feels Good To Be Yourself: A book about gender identity by Theresa Thorn
  • Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
  • Just Ask! Be different, be brave, be you by Sonia Sotomayor
  • The Oldest Student: how Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita L. Hubbard
  • Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai 
  • Mommy, Mama, and Me by Leslea Newman
  • Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
  • Something Happened in our Town: a child’s story about racial injustice by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard
  • The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
To place your request, simply contact the library at jaquithpubliclibrary@gmail.com or call 802-426-3581
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    • Green Mountain Book Award
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