Antiracist Baby by Ibram Kendi 2020 Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-ins by Carole Boston Weatherford 2005 Hair Love by Matthew Cherry 2019 Let’s Talk About Raceby Julius Lester 2005 The Other Sideby Jacqueline Woodson 2001 Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o 2019 The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander (Caldecott Award Winner, a picture book for all ages) 2019
Grades 3-6 Reading List
Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz Blended by Sharon Draper (Grades 4-7) 2018 Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome 2018 Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson (Grades 4-7) 2018 Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon 2018
Grades 5-8 Reading List
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely (grades 8 and up) 2015 The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin 1963 Ghost Boysby Jewell Parker Rhodes 2018 New Kid by Jerry Craft (Newbery Winner; Graphic novel) 2019 Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram Kendi (Grades 7 and up) 2020 This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action and Do the Workby Tiffany Jewell 2020. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
High School & Adult Reading List
1619 Project conceived by Nikole Hannah-Jones. A series of essays connecting history to the present day by re-examining the legacy of slavery in the United States. (Online at nytimes.com) Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 2015 How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi 2019 Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander 2010 Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in Americaby Ibram Kendi 2016 White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson. 2010
Reading lists compiled by Ms. Amy Ipp
Additional Reading Suggestions from the Livingston Library