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Adult Nonfiction

The 1619 Project – Nikole Hannah Jones

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants – Robin Wall Kimmerer

Crying in H Mart – Michelle Zauner

Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity – Paola Ramos

The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story – Hyeonseo Lee

A History of the Jews – Paul Johnson

I am Malala – Malala Yousafzai

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI – David Grann

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander

Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal – Aviva Chomsky

Adult Fiction

Arsenic and Adobo – Mia P. Manansala

Black Cake – Charmaine Wilkerson

Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi

Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng

Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri

Next Year in Havana – Chanel Cleeton

The Only Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones

The Stationery Shop – Marjan Kamali

Such a Fun Age – Kiley Reid

A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini

Yellowface – R. F. Kuang

YA/Teen Fiction and Nonfiction

All Boys Aren’t Blue – George M. Johnson

The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

Cemetery Boys – Aiden Thomas

Clap When You Land – Elizabeth Acevedo

Fire Keeper’s Daughter – Angeline Boulley

Furia – Yamile Saied Méndez

The Henna Wars – Adiba Jaigirdar

The Marrow Thieves – Cherie Dimaline

Miles Morales: Straight out of Brooklyn – Javier Garron

The Moon Within – Aida Salazar

Ms. Marvel: No Normal – G. Willow Wilson

The Only Black Girls in Town – Brandy Colbert

Paola Santiago and the River of Tears – Tehlor Kay Meijia

Twins – Varian Johnson

We Are Not From Here – Jenny Torres Sanchez

Early Elementary & Chapter Books

Blended – Sharon M. Draper

Born Curious: 20 Girls Who Grew Up to be Awesome Scientists – Martha Freeman

Crossing Bok Chitto – Tim Tingle

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls – Lilly Workneh

Grace for President – Kelly DiPucchio

Mae Among the Stars – Roda Ahmed

Maizy Chen’s Last Chance – Lisa Yee

The Name Jar – Yangsook Choi

Number the Stars – Lois Lowry

President of the Whole Fifth Grade – Sherri Winston

Stella Díaz Has Something to Say – Angela Dominguez

The Sandwich Swap – Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah

Too Many Tamales – Gary Soto

Picture Books & Beginning Readers

Ada Twist, Scientist – Andrea Beaty

Alma and How She Got Her Name – Juana Martinez-Neal

Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem – Amanda Gorman

Coquí in the City – Nomar Perez

Dim Sum for Everyone – Grace Lin

Dreamers – Yuyi Morales

Eyes that Kiss in the Corners – Joanna Ho

Fatima’s Great Outdoors – Ambreen Tariq

Fry Bread: A Native American Famly Story – Kevin Noble Mailard

Hair Love – Matthew Cherry

My Name is Bana – Bana Alabed

The Proudest Blue – Ibtihaj Muhammad

Waiting for the Biblioburro – Monica Brown

We are Water Protectors – Carole Lindstrom

What Color is my Hijab? – Hudda Ibrahim

Banned Books – A Sampling of Books Banned in Florida

The Color of My Words – Lynn Joseph

The First Strawberries: A Cherokee Story – Joseph Bruchac

I am Jazz – Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings

Indian No More – Charlene Willing McManis with Traci Sorell

It Began With a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way – Kyo Maclear

Jasmine Toguchi: Flamingo Keeper – Debbi Michiko Florence

Julián is a Mermaid – Jessica Love

The List of Things That Will Not Change – Rebecca Stead

Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 – Alice Faye Duncan

Nino Wrestles the World – Yuyi Morales

Other Words for Home – Jesmine Warga

Rainbow Revolutionaries: 50 LGBTQ+ People Who Made History - Sarah Prager

Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Saénz and the Great War – Duncan Tonatiuh

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