BOOK REVIEWS
NOVEL REVIEWS
Classic & Contemporary Fictions
We will explore works of fiction by asking the question, "Is this novel progressive or problematic?"
We will then discuss 'why', and 'how' we can continue to read these novels while engaging in critical analysis and materialist feminism theory.
SPECIAL FEATURES
Autobiographies, Memoirs & Manifestos
To expand upon 'book reviews', we will look beyond the realm of fiction, so that we can also analyze and critique feminist authors, activists, and leaders. We will explore works by and about individuals who are contributing to feminism, in one way or another.
IS YOUR BOOKSHELF DIVERSE?
JUNE IS LGBTQ+ HISTORY & PRIDE MONTH!
LGBT Young Adult Fiction
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
PET by Akwaeke Emezi
If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
Birthday by Meredith Russo
The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Simon vs. The Homo Spiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Leah on the Off Beat by Becky Albertalli
Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio
It’s Not Like It’s Secret by Misa Sugiura
Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova
When the Moon was Ours by Anne-Marie McLemore
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
Boy Meets Boy by David Leviathan
The Necessary Hunger by Nina Revoyr
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Pantomime by Laura Lam
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson
Luna by Julie Anne Peters
Dreadnought by April Daniels
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai
Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
All Out Edited by Saundra Mitchell
All Boys Aren’t Blue - a memoir manifesto by George M. Johnson
IS YOUR BOOKSHELF DIVERSE?
JUNE IS LGBTQ+ HISTORY & PRIDE MONTH!
LGBT General Fiction
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Carol by Patricia Highsmith - was also published under the title: The Price of Salt
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Weekend by Jane Eaton Hamilton
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
Maurice, by E.M. Forster
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst
Rubyfruit Jungle, by Rita Mae Brown
Zami, by Audre Lorde
A Single Man, by Christopher Isherwood
The City and the Pillar, by Gore Vidal
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
City of Night by John Rechy
Stone Butch Blues, by Leslie Feinberg
Tales of the City, by Armistead Maupin
A Boy’s Own Story, by Edmund White
Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall
Under the Udala Trees, by Chinelo Okparanta
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, by Jeanette Winterson
The Hours, by Michael Cunningham
A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara
Tipping the Velvet, by Sarah Waters
IS YOUR BOOKSHELF DIVERSE?
GIVEN OUR CURRENT GLOBAL CLIMATE, AND CURRENT GLOBAL EVENTS
WE WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER
Young Adult Fiction that Explore Racism and Police Brutality
Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
Internment by Samira Ahmed
American Street by Ibi Zoboi
Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
Swing by Kwame Alexander
Colorblind by Johnathan Harris
Crongton Knights by Alex Wheatle
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Light it Up by Kekla Magoon
I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Madina
How it Went Down by Kekla Magoon
Anger Is a Gift by Mark Oshiro
Black Enough Edited by Ibi Zoboi
IS YOUR BOOKSHELF DIVERSE?
GIVEN OUR CURRENT GLOBAL CLIMATE, AND CURRENT GLOBAL EVENTS
WE WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER
Young Adult Fiction with Black Leads
Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
On The Come Up by Angie Thomas
PET by Akwaeke Emezi
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett
Color Me In by Natasha Diaz
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
Pride by Ibi Zoboi
The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert
Daughters of NRI by Reni K. Amayo
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe
Calling My Name by Liara Tamani
The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
Opposite of Always by Justin A Reynolds
War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi
SLAY by Brittney Morris
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Black Veins by Ashia Monet
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
Oh My Gods by Alexandra Sheppard
A River of Royal Blood by Amanda Joy
The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum
If it Makes You Happy by Claire Kann
Who Put This Song On? By Morgan Parker
A Phoenix Must First Burn Edited by Patrice Caldwell
JackPot by Nic Stone
Odd One Out by Nic Stone
I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest
Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown
Inventing Victoria by Tonya Bolden
Watch Us Ride by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan
The Voice in my Head by Dana L. Davis
The Beauty that Remains by Ashley Woodfolk
Home and Away by Candice Montgomery
When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk
Fate of Flames by Sarah Raughley
The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis
The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert
Well Read Black Girl by Glory Edim
The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
The Moon Within by Aida Salazar
IS YOUR BOOKSHELF DIVERSE?
GIVEN OUR CURRENT GLOBAL CLIMATE, AND CURRENT GLOBAL EVENTS
WE WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER
General Fiction with Black Leads
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Sula by Toni Morrison
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney by Okechukwu Nzelu
Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
EDUCATE YOURSELF
Necessary Non-Fiction Reads for Anti-Racism Work
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Hunger by Roxane Gay
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
We Were Eight Years in Power - An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
You Can't Touch my Hair: And Other Things I Still Have To Explain by Phoebe Robinson
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Sisters Are Alright: Changing The Broken Narrative Of Black Women In America by Tamara Winfrey Harris
Hidden Figures: The American Dream And The Untold Story Of The Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win The Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson, Ph.D.
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
The History of White People' by Nell Irvin Painter
Me & White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
How to Argue with a Racist: History, Science, Race & Reality by Adam Rutherford
ain’t I a woman: black women & feminism by bell hooks
IS YOUR BOOKSHELF DIVERSE?
JUNE IS ALSO NATIONAL INDIGENOUS HISTORY MONTH IN CANADA
Indigenous Literature - Fiction & Non-Fiction
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
The Break by Katherena Vermette
7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga by David Alexander Robertson
The Back of The Turtle by Thomas King
Cold Skies by Thomas King
In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott
Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
Embers - One Ojibway’s Meditations by Richard Wagamese
Those Who Run in the Sky by Aviaq Johnston
Starlight by Richard Wagamese
I am Woman by Lee Maracle
#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women Edited by Lisa Charleyboy & Mary Beth Leatherdale
Following the River- Traces of Red River Women by Lorri Neilsen Glenn
Books & Islands in Ojibwe Country by Louise Erdrich
The Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich
Bone Black by Carol Rose Goldeneagle
This Town Sleeps by Dennis E. Staples
The Old Lie by Claire G. Coleman
Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
Moccasin Square Gardens by Richard Van Camp
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Onigamiising by Linda LeGarde Grover
Sister Nations - Native American Women Writers on Community Edited by Heid E. Erdrich & Laura Tohe
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Maihots
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