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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.

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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.

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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

Image by Patrick Tomasso

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

Books On Shelf

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

Books

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

Books

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

Image by Sharon McCutcheon

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

Image by Syd Wachs

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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