RESOURCE LIST - BOOKS
Below are lists of books for adults, teens, and children that can assist you in expanding your knowledge of other races, cultures and experiences as well as options to purchase to support our Little Free Diverse Libraries.
If you plan to purchase one of these books, we hope you will consider making a purchase from a BIPOC-owned independent bookstore. Below are a few to choose from:
Bel Canto Books in Long Beach, CA (AANHPI-owned)
Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC (Middle Eastern American-owned)
Cafe Con Libros in Brooklyn, NY (Black feminist-owned)
Eastwind Books of Berkeley in Berkeley, CA (AANHPI-owned)
Epilogue Books Chocolate Brews in Chapel Hill, NC (Latinx-owned)
Eyeseeme African American Children's Bookstore in St. Louis, MO (Black-owned)
Femme Fire Books in Jacksonville, FL (AANHPI-owned)
A Good Used Book in Los Angeles, CA (AANHPI-owned)
Harriett's Bookshop in Philadelphia, PA (Black-owned)
Iron Dog Books in Vancouver, BC (Indigenous-owned)
The Lit. Bar in Bronx, NY (Latinx-owned)
Loyalty Bookstore in Silver Spring, MD (Black and LGBTQ+-owned)
MahoganyBooks in Washington, DC (Black-owned)
Marcus Books in Oakland, CA (oldest Black-owned bookstore in US
Massy Books in Vancouver, BC (Indigenous-owned)
Palabras Bilingual Bookstore in Phoenix, AZ (Latinx-owned)
Red Planet Books & Comics in Albuquerque, NM (Indigenous-owned)
Third House Books in Gainesville, FL (Latinx-owned)
Townie Books in Crested Butte, CO (AANHPI-owned)
You can also find additional bookstores owned by members of the BIPOC and other marginalized communities at www.diversebooks.org, www.theconsciouskid.org, and https://adifferentbooklist.com.
Banned Books in Duval County
10,000 Dresses by Rex Ray and Marcus Ewert
A Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth Laird, Sonia Nimr and Bill Neal
Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio by Tony Johnston and Raul Colon
Ashes to Asheville by Sarah Dooley
The Berenstain Bears and the Big Question by Jan and Stan Berenstain
The Best Man by Richard Peck
The Color of My Words by Lynn Joseph
Cow on the Town: Practicing the Ow Sound by Isabella Garcia
Dim Sum for Everyone! by Grace Lin
Eagle Song by Joseph Bruchac and Dan Andreasen
The First Strawberries by Joseph Bruchac and Anna Vojtech
The Flag of Childhood: Poems from the Middle East by Naomi Shihab
Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky
I am Jazz by Jazz Jennings, Jessica Herthel and Shelagh McNicholas
In Our Mothers House by Patricia Polacco
Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis and Traci Sorell
It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear and Julie Morstad
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
Jasmine Toguchi, Flamingo Keeper by Debbi Michiko Florence and Elizabet Vukovic
Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
The Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie dePaola
The Life of Rosa Parks by Kathleen Connors
The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead
Lost Boys by Darcey Rosenblatt
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 by Alice Faye Duncan and R. Gregory Christie
The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Moon Within by Aida Salazar
Most Valuable Players by Phil Bildner and Tim Probert
My Name is Sally Little Song by Brenda Woods
Neither by Airlie Anderson
Nino Wrestles the World by Yuyi Morales
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
Pink! by Lynne Rickards and Margaret Chamberlain
Pride: Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders and Steven Salerno
Rainbow Revolutionaries: 50 LGBTQ+ People Who Made History by Sarah Prager
Sadako by Eleanor Coerr and Ed Young
Sally and the Magical Sneeze by Simon Taylor and A.D. Lester
Sam! by Dani Gabriel and Robert Liu-Trujillo
Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
Stonewall: A Building, An Uprising, A Revolution by Jamey Christoph
The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Street by Gayle E. Pitman
This Place Is Not My Home by Cyn Bermudez
Two Roads by Joseph Bruchac
Were I Not a Girl: The Inspiring and True Story of Dr. James Barry by Lisa Robinson and Lauren Simkin Berke
When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff and Kaylani Juanita
Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear by Lensey Namioka
Adult Non-Fiction
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone by Heather McGhee
Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
Begin Again: James Baldwin's American and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
How Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts by Natalia Molina
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla Silva
Raising White Kids in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Ashe Bandele
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
Mankiller: A Chief and Her People by Wilma Mankiller
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening by Manal Al-Sharif
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris
Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgiveable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors by Denise Lajimodiere
The Latino Education Crisis: The Consequences of Failed Social Policies by Frances Contreras and Patricia Gandara
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientifc Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism and injustice in America's Law Enforcement by Matthew Horace
Ghettoside: The Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva
Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal by Aviva Chomsky
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
Give us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman
Adult Fiction
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
Darktown by Thomas Mullen
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Just As I Am by E. Lynn Harris
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Next Year in Havana by Chanel Clifton
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
The Removed by Brandon Hobson
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-yi
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Young Adult/Teen
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
American as Paneer Pie by Supriya Kelkar
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Clas Act by Jerry Craft
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Don't Ask Me Where I'm From by Jennifer De Leon
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Furia by Yamile Saled Mendez
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Juliet Takes A Breath by Gabby Rivera
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Maus by Art Spiegelman
More Than Just a Pretty Face by Syed M. Masood
Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert
A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Twins by Varian Johnson
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
Early Elementary & Chapter Books
111 Trees: How One Village Celebrates the Birth of Every Girl by Rina Singh
Blended by Sharon M. Draper
Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder
Born Curious: 20 Girls Who Grew Up to be Awesome Scientists by Martha Freeman
Crossing Bok Chitto by Tim Tingle
The Crossover: A Graphic Novel by Kwame Alexander
Dreams of Freedom by Amnesty International
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real Life Tales of Black Girl Magic by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio
Kizzy Ann Stamps by Jeri Watts
Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed
Maizy Chen's Last Chance by Lisa Yee
Mindy Kim and the Yummy Seaweed Business by Lyla Lee
The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Plum Fantastic by Nancy Cato and Whoopi Goldberg
President of the Whole Fifth Grade by Sherri Winston
Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story by Ruby Bridges
The Sandwich Swap by Kelly DiPucchio and Rania Al Abdullah
Stella Diaz Has Something to Say by Angela Dominguez
Suki's Kimono by Chieri Uegaki
Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell
When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin
When We Were Alone by David Robertson
Picture Books & Beginning Readers
A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty
Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
Change Sings by Amanda Gorman
Charlotte and the Nutcracker: The True Story of a Girl Who Made Ballet History by Charlotte Nebres
Coquí in the City by Nomar Perez
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music by Margarita Engle
Empathy is Your Superpower: A Book About Understanding by Cori Bussolari
Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho
Fatima's Great Outdoors by Ambreen Tariq
Fly by Brittany J. Thurman
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine
I Am Enough by Grace Byers
I Am Whole: A Multi-Racial Children's Book Celebrating Diversity, Language, Race and Culture by Shola Oz
Kite Flying by Grace Lin
Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn
My Name is Bana by Bana Alabed
My Rainy Day Rocket Ship by Markette Sheppard
The Proudest Blue by Ibithaj Muhammad and S.K. Ali
Shades of People by Sheila M. Kelly and Shelley Rotner
Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora
Waiting for the Biblioburro by Monica Brown
We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
We're Different, We're the Same by Bobbi Jane Kates
What Color is My Hijab? by Hudda Ibrahim
When Lola Visits by Michelle Sterling
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema