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The Reading Resilience Project: Complete Book List

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Data includes title, author, recommendation reason and, when available, catalog URL and hashtags (#). 

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Title Author Yale Library Availability Recommended because:
1Q84  Haruki Murakami http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11071340
A Brief History of 7 Killings  Marlon James https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12276603
A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing Damaris B. Hill https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15381657
A Chinese Life Li Kunwu http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13977886 "It is a graphic novel centered around China under Mao and the Cultural Revolution. The sketches are beautiful."
A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars Erin Sharkey, editor https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16624468 "New edited volume on Black land relations and caretaking that I think Yale community folks should know about."
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America Ronald Takaki http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3524073 "The book details the roles of various immigrant groups in making the U.S. what it is today, something absent in many hist books."
A Fine Balance  Rohinton Mistry http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3882909
A Lesson Before Dying  Ernest J. Gaines https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3497774
A Little Life  Hanya Yanagihara https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12440125

“This book changed the way I live my life at Yale. The book explores friendship and love in such profound depth.”

A Mercy Toni Morrison http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/8451745 "This historical fiction novel centers the stories of black and indigenous women in early colonial America."
A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3583194
"A Retrograde" in What Noise Against The Cane Desiree C. Bailey https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15901677
A Small Place Jamaica Kincaid https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3076177
The Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest;' Adaptation for a Black Theatre  Aimé Césaire http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4650771
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/8081069
A Toast in the House of Friends Akilah Oliver http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/8557929 "These poems are witness to complexities of grief, loss, limits of the body. Holy/earthly, they transfigure mourning into living."
African American Women Confront the West: 1600-2000 Quintard Taylor, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6247140 "Learn about black women on the 'frontier,' their varied experiences and colonial encounters, as well as their organizing."
All About Love: New Visions bell hooks http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4514219
Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire Adria Imada http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13704365 "Hula and other Hawaiian cultural practices are widely appropriated across the U.S. and even by Yale students."
Aloha Betrayed Noenoe K. Silva http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9075018
Altai  Wu Ming https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11352559
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12697315

“An incredible book about what it's like to enter the racial world of America when being from a different country.”

Amistad (movie)  Steven Spielberg http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/1929317
An Unkindness of Ghosts Rivers Solomon http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13977898
Angela Davis: An Autobiography Angela Davis http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/8837568 "Because 'we have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.'"
Another Brooklyn  Jacqueline Woodson http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12914237 "This book is written by an incredible black woman and was nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction in 2016."
Another Country  James Baldwin http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5239908
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Benjamin Alire Sáenz

https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16533805

"Two very different Chicano boys become friends, and together think about family, sexuality, and their futures. Funny and lyrical."
Asante Identities: History and Modernity in an African Village, 1850-1950  T. C. McCaskie http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4786863
Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle Jacob Dlamini  https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12599474
Assata: An Autobiography Assata Shakur https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/784765
Bad Feminist  Roxane Gay http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12276611
Beauty is a Wound  Eka Kurniawan http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12617043
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self Danielle Evans http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9576154 "This book was the first time I read about Black girls in fiction, and the stories have a way of getting into your head.”
Beloved Toni Morrison http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6330204 "Morrison invents her own language and literary style to describe the indescribable, haunting legacy of slavery."

 

Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12533589 "Most beautifully written book I've ever read and perfectly captures the intellectual argument against institutional racism in U.S.”
Binti  Nnedi Okorafor http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12912051
Bir Dinazorun Anilari  Mina Urgon Try Interlibrary Loan (link to WorldCat)
Bitch Planet Kelly Sue DeConnick https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12613444
Black Boy (American Hunger): A Record of Childhood and Youth Richard Wright  https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4536818
Black Like Me John Howard Griffin http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3629078

“This book opened my eyes to the whole issue of discrimination and maltreatment 50 years ago.”

Black Man in a White Coat Damon Tweedy https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/b1441192
Black Movie Danez Smith  https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13231045
Black Skin, White Masks Frantz Fanon https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/8259900
Blended Sharon Draper https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15367964
Blind Willie Johnson (artist)  Blind Willie Johnson http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/7202989
Book of Salt Monique Truong https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14489504
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza Gloria Anzaldúa http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4566186 "This is a great book which encompasses the experience of Anzaldua as she navigates her identity as a queer Chicana."
Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11742735 "Beautifully written and totally perspective changing - highly recommend for science majors and thinkers!"
Breathe: Shifting Tides Book 2 Maxine Jackson Not currently available; available on Amazon
Cairo Trilogy Naguib Mahfouz https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4876208
Calling A Wolf A Wolf Kaveh Akbar https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13338380 "Emotionally gripping poetry on faith and grief, and often connected to the author's Persian-American identity."
Cane Jean Toomer http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16384 "Depicts the everyday lifestyle of African Americans in the early 20th century, specifically those in the South."
Carceral Capitalism  Jackie Wang http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13602371
Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/7896151
Certain Dark Things Silvia Moreno- Garcia https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13017924
Children of Blood and Bone Tomi Adeyemi Try Interlibrary Loan (link to WorldCat)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel García Márquez https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/268857 "The story is easy to follow, immensely interesting, and beautifully written."
Circle K Cycles Karen Tei Yamashita http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4812258 "Really cute book about assimilation and cultural exchange between Japanese and Brazilians in Brazil, and also has a lot of pics."
Citizen Claudia Rankine https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12287556
Code of the Street Elijah Anderson http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/7085804 "Great for understanding the isolating effects of poverty on urban communities."
Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir Yashica Dutt https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16052048 "Powerful insight to the oppressive caste system in India. Relatable to the Black struggle in America yet different."
Community As Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color Lorgia García Peña https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16305505  
Cosmopolitan Canopy Elijah Anderson http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9723092 "Good examination of how our everyday spaces are racially charged. Provides good framework for looking at racism in our time."
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed The Movement Kimberlé Crenshaw https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3992718
Cruising  Gerald Walker http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5237902
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples Linda Tuhiwai Smith http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/10735397 "Reclaiming our history is powerful & therefore indigenous participation is essential in establishing new research methods.”
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution Dan Georgakas, Marvin Surkin https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4730003 "A lesser-known but absolutely essential history of Black workers' revolutionary organizing in late 1960s Detroit."
Discourse in Colonialism Aimé Césaire https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5239384
Discrimination and Disparities Thomas Sowell https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14052100
Disgraced Ayad Ahktar https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12371753
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Claudia Rankine https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6959122
Dragon Republic R.F Kuang https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14534055
Eleven Minutes  Paulo Coelho http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6581201
Enjambie (music group) Enjambie Not currently available
Essays on Native Modernism: Complexity and Contradiction in American Indian Art Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian Try Interlibrary Loan (link to WorldCat)
Everything I never told you  Celeste Ng http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12543114
Exit West  Mohsin Hamid https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13099317
Fast Car (song) Tracy Chapman Not currently available
Feel Free  Zadie Smith http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13553167
Fences: A Play August Wilson http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/410783 "It's a play written in accessible language that explores the dynamics of a Black family (with a strong female character)."
Fifteen Dogs  Andre Alexis http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12521041
Fight or Flight, Shifting Tides Book 1 Maxine Jackson http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13977916
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered suicide / When The Rainbow is Enuf Ntozake Shange http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6714516 "It's a beautifully poetic and moving play that tells the life stories of several women of color."
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré Frédéric Bruly Bouabré https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16261338 "Very good overview of the work of a talented and respected artist from Côte d'Ivoire."
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaiʻi Haunani Kay Trask http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4457563 "Recent and current issues having to do with race and ethnicity in Hawai'i are even less known than Hawaiian history."
Get Out (movie)  Jordan Peele http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13587338
Ghana Must Go Taiye Selasi http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11319226 "Absolutely beautifully written; a complex portrait of a transnational African family in Ghana and the US."
Giovanni's Room James Baldwin http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4941911 "Because James Baldwin was a God of writing and this is his best."
Gnosis (magazine)  Jay Kinney, editor http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/817280 "This periodical contains invaluable (and hard to obtain) information about the various branches of African American Islam."
Go Tell it on the Mountain  James Baldwin http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/257462
Half of a Yellow Sun  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/8188829
Heavy: An American Memoir  Kiese Laymon https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/b1672880
Here Comes the Sun  Nicole Dennis-Benn http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12870466
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12865485
House on Mango Street  Sandra Cisneros  http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/414258
How Long Til Black Future Month N.K. Jemisin https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13891215 "The short stories involve Afrofuturist elements. Several protagonists of color and of sexual minorities."
How Tia Lola Came to Stay Julia Alvarez http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/7944700 “The author lives in my hometown in Vermont, and it was one of my first introductions as a child to the complexities of heritage.
How To Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15362409
How to be Drawn Terrance Hayes https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12499071
How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir Saeed Jones https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14616777
I Am Alfonso Jones Tony Medina https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13663227
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Erika Sánchez https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16533820
I Hotel  Karen Tei Yamashita https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9383828
I Love Her Sunjeev Sahata  Not currently available  
If Beale Street Could Talk  James Baldwin http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5239925
Ikaw (song) Yeng Constantino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b00C1HkgMx4
In Praise of Shadows  Jun'ichirō Tanizaki http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/147128
In The Time of Butterflies  Julia Alvarez http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11824707
Indian Epics Retold R. K. Narayan https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6832112
Infidel Pornsak Pichetshote  Try Interlibrary Loan (link to WorldCat)
Interpreter of Maladies  Jhumpa Lahiri http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4461264
Invisible Man Ralph Waldo Ellison https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11359045 "A resonating story of self-realization despite upward mobility and social responsibility that transcends its pre-1950s setting."
Jazz  Toni Morrison https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15172853
Jewish War Veterans Women in Military Life  Constance Cotton (Interviewer) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EJm0DAeDn4s "My mom, who is African American, interviewed women veterans and shared her military story in a video."
Just Mercy  Bryan Stevenson http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13868339 "A powerful story of mass incarceration in America and the Equal Justice Initiative's pursuit of justice."
Kafka on the Shore  Haruki Murakami http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6818543
Killer of the Flower Moon David Grann https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13145103
Killing the Black Body Dorothy Roberts https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13894829
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 Nam-Joo Cho https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16262821 "Powerful and stark story is presented. Brings many issues to the forefront, would highly recommend."
Kindred  Octavia E. Butler https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9826779
Lead Belly (artist)  Lead Belly http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4297541
Letras Afroperuanas: Creación e Identidad José Campos, José Respaldiza https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9637244 "An incredible collection of poems drawing from issues of religion, culture, and class in Afro-Peruvian communities."
Like One of the Family; Conversations From a Domestic Life Alice Childress http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5449901 "A funny epistolary novel by prolific artist-activist Alice Childress told from the point of view of a black domestic in the 50s."
Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel  George Saunders https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13203922
Love (song) Keyshia Cole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PBZy9j3H3I
Love Medicine  Louise Erdrich http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9169021
Maud Martha Gwendolyn Brooks http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6397848 "A gorgeously wrought examination of black interior girlhood written by one of our greatest poets--her only novel."
Men We Reaped: A Memoir  Jesmyn Ward http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11765163
Mighty Justice: My Life In Civil Rights Dovey Johnson Roundtree Not currently available "Trailblazing civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring life story."
Mohawk Trail Beth Brand https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/687538
Monstress Marjorie M. Liu Try Interlibrary Loan (link to WorldCat)
Moses Sumney (artist) Moses Sumney Not currently available
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World  Tracy Kidder http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13709316
Ms. Marvel G Willow Wilson http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13977945 "Fun, thought-provoking, and politically timely Wilson's Pakistani American MsMarvel is a 21st century super hero you'll root for."
Murgu Artan Fuga Try Interlibrary Loan (link to WorldCat) "Artan Fuga is a well-known professor of philosophy and and brilliant communicator. His works are beautiful."
Music & Literature Magazine https://www.musicandliterature.org/ "This journal explicitly seeks to translate and publish great foreign writers that are under-appreciated in the 'west.'"
My Bondage, My Freedom Frederick Douglass https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11819555 "The second and best autobiography by one of the greatest poets/prophets/philosophers of freedom in American history."
My Dream Carried Love Noah Humphrey and Meryl Humphrey https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16559518 "a book by a Yale MDiv student and his mother, both of African American descent."
My Sister, The Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15367965
Native Modernism: The Art of George Morrison and Allan Houser  Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6986240
Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence  Gregory Cajete http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6794971 "This is a major philosophical work for indigenous scholars, addressing the relationship between humans, space, place, and land."
Native Son  Richard Wright https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/b137209
Never Fall Down Patricia McCormick http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13977931 "This novel tells the true story of a refugee from Cambodia and his experiences of resilience during the Genodice."
Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15354444 "Beautifully written, a compelling narrative of the experiences of a young, black boy sentenced to a reform school during Jim Crow."
Night Sky with Exit Wounds  Ocean Vuong https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12784798
Nisekoi = False Love Naoshi Komi https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11815874
Nobody Knows My Name  James Baldwin https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5229217
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond Marc Lamont Hill https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/b1533989
O Espaço Dividido (Shared Space) Marlon Santos https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/46073 "Prominent Black Brazilian geographer Milton Santos explores develops a theory of unequal urban development in developing countries."
Of Love and Dust Ernest J. Gaines http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5241481 "This book captures the humanity of a troubled youth trying to escape his own demons and those of the Jim Crow South."
Of the Spirit  Douglas Cardinal http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/197695 "This architecture treaties was written by the most famous indigenous architects of the 20th and 21st century."
On Beauty  Zadie Smith http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/7069403
On The Battlefield: Overcoming Challenges Associated with the Aftermath of Military Experiences  Constance C. Cotton Try Interlibrary Loan (link to WorldCat) "My mother is a disabled war veteran and she published this book to educate society about women veterans."
Oreo  Fran Ross http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12670229
Our Voices: Indignity and Architecture  Rebecca Kiddle, Luugigyoo Patrick stewart, and Kevin O'Brien (editors) http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13854380 "One of the only edited volumes, written and edited by indigenous people, on indigenous architecture."
Pachinko  Min Jin Lee https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13068851
Parable of the Sower  Octavia E. Butler http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3602871
Paradise Toni Morrison https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4206327
Passing  Nella Larsen http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/212279
Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (TV show)  Hasan Minhaj Not currently available
Persepolis Marjane Satrapi http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6230144 "Graphic novel that makes author's sentiments as a child growing up in Iran accessible in a very moving way."
Pimp Iceberg Slim http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12538587 "Absolutely captivating."
Pipeline Dominique Morisseau https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15367971  
Please Look After Mom Kyung-Sook Shin http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/10161508 "Beautiful story of family and loss set in Korean culture that had me crying in the coffee shop as I read it."
Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle Simone Schwarz-Bart https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4245154 "Novel written by a female francophone author from the Caribbean. Explores the bonds between women and how they empower each other."
Pop Song Larissa Pham https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16092574 "It was an incredibly insightful and intimate read. Made me think about my life and the world in new ways!"
Prison Writings: My Life is My Sundance Leonard Peltier http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/b511465 "Leonard Peltier is a Native political prisoner and activist that remains in prison today little known by non-Natives."
Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6396214
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools Monique Morris http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13977935
Quiver of Arrows Carl Phillips https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/7881916 
Race Matters  Cornel West http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4848095
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in America Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11120713 "This book does a wonderful job of detailing the layers of race's social construction and pervasive power though it's a myth."
Reconsidering Reparations Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16155003 "An argument for a constructive approach to reparations, rooted in distributive justice in the era of catastrophic climate change."
Reenactments: Poems & Translations Hai-Dang Phan https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14029592 "beautifully written Vietnamese American poetry contemplating on more than just the Vietnam War."
Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6174904 "In an image saturated word, understanding what these images do to our collective psyche is of utmost importance."
Reservation Blues Sherman Alexie http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3855240 "More magical realism! But this time on a reservation in Washington state surrounding a band of native musicians."
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry  Mildred D. Taylor https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/81877
Rosewater Tade Thompson https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14517535
Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/10161703 "Really beautiful writing about the tragedy that strike one family in rural Mississippi at the onset of Hurricane Katrina."
Saturn Apartments Hisae Iwaoka https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/10472357 
Searching for Zion Emily Raboteau http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11296514 "Super compelling, interesting, and personal literary nonfiction; author travels to Israel, Jamaica, Ethiopia, Ghana, & US South."
Season of Migration to the North Tayeb Salih http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/8015511 "Captures experience of post-colonial interactions between Global North and South."

 

Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship Aimee Meredith Cox http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12573452 "This book is critical for understanding how Black girls and women navigate hostile territory and make a self."
She Weeps Each Time You're Born: A Novel Quan Barry http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12385447 "This fantasy book addresses Vietnam's tragic and violent history in a mystical, whimsical fashion. I couldn't put it down."
Sing, Unburied, Sing Jasmyn Ward https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13293646 
So Far from God Ana Castillo http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3501238 "Story full of familial love, hardship, and magical realism in a family of Latina women in New Mexico."
So You Want To Talk About Race Ijeoma Oluo https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13473913
Statements: Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The island Athol Fugard https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5780449
Song of Solomon Toni Morrison http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/43978 “Such a dense and rich book that everyone should read on literary merit alone."
Stay True: A Memoir Hua Hsu https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16490122 "A beautifully written coming-of-age memoir about love, loss, and one's perspective of Asian American identity."
Suicide Club: A Novel About Living Rachel Heng Try Interlibrary Loan (link to WorldCat)
Sula Toni Morrison https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5236285
Swingtime Zadie Smith http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12995578
Tar Baby Toni Morrison https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/84252
Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia Samuel R. Delany  https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4012798 
Turbulence Before Takeoff: The Life & Times of Aviation Pioneer Marlon DeWitt Green Flint Whitlock https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/b865412 "re: U.S. Supreme Court case which broke the color barrier to the commercial aviation cockpit in 1963."
Unaccustomed earth  Jhumpa Lahiri http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11071233
War of the Mountain: Israelis, Christians and Druze in the 1983 Mount Lebanon Conflict Through the Eyes of a Lebanese Forces Fig Paul Andary Try Interlibrary Loan (link to WorldCat) "An episode of the Lebanese Civil War that describes the historical conflit between the Druze and the Christians in mount Lebanon."
Ways of Dying  Zakes Mda https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3985621
What is Not Yours is Not Yours Helen Oyeyemi https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12767461 "Highly original, well-written short stories verging on magical realism, sprinkled with themes around race, class, and gender."
What It Means When Man Falls From the Sky  Lesley Nneka Arimah http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13127834
When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving  Reginald Dwayne Betts http://www.jstor.org/stable/44016074 
When I Get Home (song)  Solange  Not currently available
When My Name Was Keoko Linda Sue Park http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12837772

“This book about two Korean siblings during the Japanese annexation showed me how I almost lost my precious motherland's culture.”

When the Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/10435620 "A powerfully unhinged last chapter contrasts w/ the matter-of-fact directness of previous chapters, making an unforgettable ending."
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?  Martin Luther King Jr. http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3188566
Where Reasons End Yiyun Li https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14631320
White Tears Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color Ruby Hamad https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14631320
White Teeth  Zadie Smith http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4538981
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13373214
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World  Anand Giridharadas http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13762761
Witchmark C.L. Polk https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13857154 
With the Fire on High  Elizabeth Acevedo https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16533847
Women, Race & Class Angela Davis https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/327909
Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/86120
Yolk Mary H.Y. Choi  https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16533849
You Bring the Distant Near Mitali Perkins https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16533850
Zaatar Diva Suheir Hammad http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/8513565 "Hammad's poetry embraces the complexities of her Palestinian-American identity; there is joy, sorrow, anger, & love in her voice."
Zami a New Spelling of My Name  Audre Lorde http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/7787955 "Fantastic book about self-discovery, blackness, queerness, womanhood and a lot more."
Teaching to Transgress bell hooks http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3703326 "She advocates the process of teaching students to think critically and raises concerns central to field of critical pedagogy."
The 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16168736
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3322116
The Bathing Women Tie Ning https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15289304
The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears Dinaw Mengestu https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/7824627
The Belles Dhonielle Clayton Try Interlibrary Loan (link to WorldCat)
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/10132699 "classic and heart-wrenching story that captures the complex many women of color have about not embodying white beauty standards."
The Book of Unknown Americans  Christina Henriquez https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12230831
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/7965187 "The voice and narrative so accurately mirror my own experience.”
The Broken Earth N.K. Jemisin http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12541321
The City We Became N. K. Jemisin https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14981656
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays Esmé Weijun Wang https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13927230 "This book was validating and insightful in its intimate descriptions of mental and chronic illness.”
The Color Purple Alice Walker http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3733336 "It's the sort of epistolary novel that makes you want to write letters in colored ink."
The Condemnation of Blackness Khalil Muhammad https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16560152 "A definitive writing on race, criminality and urban immigrants becoming white in the early 1900s."
The Elementary Particles  Michel Houellebecq https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14525591
The Essential Tagore Rabindranath Tagore http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9779892 "Bengali literature is not often highlighted in western classes. However, he is a noble prize recipient and his work is amazing."
The Fifth Season  N. K. Jemisin http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12541321 "Women of color writing science-fiction and fantasy don't get enough exposure. This story is intersectional and awesome."
The Fire This Time Jesmyn Ward http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12904875
The Four Agreements Don Miguel Ruiz https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12413291
The Future Home of the Living God Louise Erdrich https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15887654
The God of Small Things  Arundhati Roy http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4126387
The Green Bone Saga Fonda Lee https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16123617
The Hate U Give Angie Thomas http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13221394
The Island Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15261712 "This play shows the power of art and theater for self-expression and political resistance in apartheid South Africa."
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven  Sherman Alexie http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4805852
The Lonliest Americans Jay Caspian Kang  https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16018418
The Mamba Mentality: How I Play  Kobe Bryant  Try Interlibrary Loan (link to WorldCat)
The Marrow Thieves Cherie Diamline https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13688278 
The Museum of Innocence  Orhan Pamuk http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12355234
The Namesake  Jumpa Lahiri http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6343377
The Old Drift: A Novel  Namwali Serpell https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14490937
The People of Kenya Speak for Themselves  Mbiyu Koinange http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5428177
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4187302
The Prey of the Gods  Nicky Drayden http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13246392
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History Ned Blackhawk https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16642282 "This book is a comprehensive and unique look at US history."
The Satanic Verses  Salman Rushdie http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/798438
The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/b1753497 "The Vanishing Half is a beautiful novel that describes a multi-generational story of black twins and how their paths diverge."
The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9533299
The Women of Brewster Place  Gloria Naylor http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/274777
The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5245270  "It exposes  through a psychological and psychiatric perspective, the dehumanizing effects of colonialism."
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4683075 "Beautiful, extremely emotional, and individual story, incredibly written, eye-opening."
There, There: A Novel Tommy Orange http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13667677 "This novel probes a key question for people from increasingly diverse backgrounds: who am I? and how do I construct my identity?"
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement Wesley Lowery https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12983751
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4899405 "This book changed the way I approach cross-cultural interactions and facilitate conversation."
This Bridge Called My Back Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua (editors) https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/525072 "This book is fundamental to women of color and intersectional feminism, discusses juggling multiple worlds and achieving acceptance."
This Is How You Lose Her Junot Diaz http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/b1239747 "First of all, it has perhaps my favorite title of all time. Junot's character's jump off the page with an unparalleled honesty. "
To Pimp a Butterfly (album)  Kendrick Lamar http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13386127
"Tower of Babylon" in Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5999940
Tram 83 Fiston Mwanza Mujila http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12675035 "Fiston Mwanza Mujila portrays the realities of colonialism old and new with a biting, dark humor."