
Read for Justice Book List
Social Justice & Activism
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock – Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Demystifying Disability – Emily Ladau
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century – Alice Wong (ed.)
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change – Angela Garbes
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women a Movement Forgot – Mikki Kendall
Its Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women of Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race – Mariam Khan (ed.)
Our Work is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer & Trans Resistance – Syan Rose
Read This to Get Smarter: about Race, Class, Gender, Disability & More – Blair Imani
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together – Heather McGee
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color – Ruby Hamad
Memoirs and Biography
American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland – Marie Matsuki Mockett
Beautiful Country – Qian Julie Wang
Busses are Comin’: Memoir of a Freedom Rider – Charles Person
Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land – Toni Jensen
The Community – N. Jamiyla Chisholm
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A Memoir – Séamas O’Reilly
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest – Suzanne Simard
House of Sticks: A Memoir – Ly Tran
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir – Saeed Jones
White Magic – Elissa Washuta
Science & Health
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis – Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katherine K. Wilkinson (eds.)
Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis – Samantha Montano
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime and Dreams Deferred – Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive – Phillip Dettmer
The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease – Daisy Hernández
Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health – Leana Wen
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story – Michael Lewis
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters – Steven Pinker
Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead and the Small Things in Between – Joseph Osmundson
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret – Catherine Coleman Flowers
History & Society
America for Americans: A history of Xenophobia in the United States – Erika Lee
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human Centered Planet – John Green
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents – Isabel Wilkerson
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 – Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain (eds.)
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age – Annalee Newitz
Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns – Gregg Colburn & Clayton Page Aldern
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going – Vaclav Smil
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness – Kristen Radtke
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope – Nicolas Kristoff & Sheryl WuDunn
The Undocumented Americans – Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Poetry
Black Girl, Call Home – Jasmine Mans
Call Us What We Carry – Amanda Gorman
How to Not Be Afraid of Everything – Jane Wong
The Hurting Kind – Ada Limón
The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak – Grace Lau
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First People’s Poetry – Joy Harjo (ed.)
Playlist for the Apocalypse – Rita Dove
Postcolonial Love Poem – Natalie Diaz
Yellow Rain – Mai Der Vang
You Better Be Lightning – Andrea Gibson
Fiction
The City We Became – N.K. Jemison
The Far Field: A Novel – Madhuri Vijay
Hana Khan Carries On – Uzma Jalaluddin
Inheritance: A Visual Poem – Elizabeth Acevedo
Little Big Bully – Heid E. Erdrich
Love after Love: A Novel – Ingrid Persaud
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel – Kim Stanley Robinson
Rainbow Rainbow: Stories – Lydia Conklin
Seeking Fortune Elsewhere: Stories – Sindya Bhanoo
Yerba Buena: A Novel – Nina LaCour