Everyday People Read online

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

  Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

  Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

  Ifeanyi Awachie, Summer in Igboland

  Cinelle Barnes, Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir

  adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

  Austin Channing Brown, I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

  Keah Brown, The Pretty One

  Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do

  Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, The Going and Goodbye: A Memoir

  Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

  Ying-Ying Chang, The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond The Rape of Nanking

  Ava Chin, Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal

  Nicole Chung, All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

  Maxine Beneba Clarke, The Hate Race: A Memoir

  Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer: A Story of Survival

  Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn, The Crunk Feminist Collection

  Marguerite Dabaie, The Hookah Girl and Other True Stories

  M. B. Dallocchio, The Desert Warrior

  Kavita Das, Poignant Song: The Life and Music of Lakshmi Shankar

  Sayantani Dasgupta, Fire Girl: Essays on India, America & the In-Between

  Bridgett M. Davis, The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers

  Sarah Deer, The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America

  Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls

  Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman

  Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dino Gilio-Whitaker, “All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans

  Camille T. Dungy, Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

  Nawal El-Saadawi, A Daughter of ISIS

  Melissa Febos, Abandon Me: Memoirs

  Linda Furiya, Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America

  M. Evelina Galang, Lolas’ House: Filipino Women Living with War

  Erica Garza, Getting Off: One Woman’s Journey through Sex and Porn Addiction

  Lorna Goodison, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island

  Patrice Gopo, All the Colors We Will See: Reflections on Barriers, Brokenness, and Finding Our Way

  Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, Representation and Black Womanhood: The Legacy of Sarah Baartman

  Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

  Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity

  Myriam Gurba, Mean

  Minal Hajratwala, Leaving India: My Family’s Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents

  Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave: A Memoir

  Ernestine Hayes, The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir

  Claudia D. Hernández, Knitting the Fog

  Daisy Hernández, A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir

  Sheena C. Howard, Encyclopedia of Black Comics

  LeAnne Howe, Choctalking on Other Realities

  Madeline Y. Hsu, The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority

  Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh, South Wind Changing

  Karen M. Inouye, The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration

  Samantha Irby, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life

  Morgan Jerkins, This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

  Ji-li Jiang, Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution

  Kapka Kassabova, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

  Porochista Khakpour, Sick: A Memoir

  Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha bandele, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

  Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts

  Alison Kinney, Hood

  Srilata Krishnan, Table for Four

  Winona LaDuke, Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming

  Christine Hyung-Oak Lee, Tell Me Everything You Don’t Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life

  Deborah Jian Lee, Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women, & Queer Christians Are Reclaiming Evangelicalism

  Erika Lee, The Making of Asian America: A History

  Katherine Reynolds Lewis, The Good News about Bad Behavior: Why Kids Are Less Disciplined Than Ever—and What to Do about It

  Haiming Liu, From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: A History of Chinese Food in the United States

  Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light and Other Essays

  Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

  T. Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir

  Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries: A Memoir

  Jasminne Méndez, Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e: Personal Essays and Poetry

  Dunya Mikhail, The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq

  Caille Millner, The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification

  Deborah A. Miranda, Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir

  Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

  Angela Morales, The Girls in My Town

  Sally Morgan, My Place

  Mari Naomi, Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories

  Olivia Olivia, No One Remembered Your Name but I Wrote It Down

  Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk about Race

  Wendy C. Ortiz, Bruja

  Ruth Ozeki, The Face: A Time Code

  Nell Painter, Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

  Ellen Pao, Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

  Stacey Patton, That Mean Old Yesterday

  Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

  Dianca London Potts, Planning for the Apocalypse

  Franchesca Ramsey, Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist

  Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America

  Andrea J. Ritchie, Invisible No More: Police Violence against Black Women and Women of Color

  Lori S. Robinson, I Will Survive: The African-American Guide to Healing from Sexual Assault and Abuse

  Phoebe Robinson, You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain

  Rokudenashiko, What Is Obscenity? The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and Her Pussy

  Joshunda Sanders, The Beautiful Darkness: A Handbook for Orphans

  Esmeralda Santiago, When I Was Puerto Rican

  Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

  Vivek Shraya, I’m Afraid of Men.

  Leslie Marmon Silko, The Turquoise Ledge

  Anneliese Singh, The Queer & Transgender Resilience Workbook: Skills for Navigating Sexual Orientation & Gender Expression

  Krystal A. Sital, Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad

  Tracy K. Smith, Ordinary Light: A Memoir

  C. Riley Snorton, Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

  Janet Stickmon, Crushing Soft Rubies: A Memoir

  Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

  Laura Tohe, Code Talker Stories

  Jane Jeong Trenka, Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee’s Return to Korea

  Eleanor Ty, Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority

  Neela Vaswani, You Have Given Me a Country

  Chelsea Vowel, Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nation
s, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada

  Elissa Washuta, My Body Is a Book of Rules

  Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

  Mai’a Williams, This Is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century

  Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew, The Black Futures Project

  Alexis Wright, Tracker

  Kao Kalia Yang, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

  Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

  Zane, Infinite Words: A Comprehensive Guide to Writing and Publishing

  Anthologies

  Hadeel al-Massari and Nyala Ali, Habibi: A Muslim Love Story Anthology

  S. Andrea Allen and Lauren Cherelle, Lez Talk: A Collection of Black Lesbian Short Fiction

  Piyali Bhattacharya, Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion

  adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha, Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

  Mahogany L. Browne, Idrissa Simmonds, and Jamila Woods, The BreakBeat Poets, Volume 2: Black Girl Magic

  Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Go Home!

  Jocelyn Burrel, Word. On Being a [Woman] Writer

  Lori Marie Carlson, Moccasin Thunder: American Indian Stories for Today

  Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale, #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women

  Edwidge Danticat, Haiti Noir

  jayy dodd, A Portrait in Blues: An Anthology of Identity, Gender & Bodies

  Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti, Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature

  Camille T. Dungy, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry

  Glory Edim, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

  Lisa Factora-Borchers, Dear Sister: Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence

  Roberta Fernández, In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States

  Cristina García, ¡Cubanísmo! The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature

  Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

  Farah Ghuznavi, Lifelines: New Writing from Bangladesh

  Diane Glancy & Linda Rodriguez, The World Is One Place: Native American Poets Visit the Middle East

  Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai’a Williams: Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines

  Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird, Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America

  Daisy Hernández and Bushra Rehman, Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism

  Tobi Hill-Meyer, Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic

  Tayari Jones, Atlanta Noir

  Mikki Kendall & Chesya Burke, Hidden Youth: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History

  Nia King, Jessica Glennon-Zukoff, and Terra Mikalson, Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives

  Wilma Mankiller, Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women

  Erika M. Martínez, Daring to Write: Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women

  Ayesha Mattu & Nura Maznavi, Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women

  Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

  Rosalie Morales Kearns, The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women

  Native Realities, Deer Woman: An Anthology

  Hope Nicholson, Love Beyond Body, Space & Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology

  Nadxieli Nieto & Lincoln Michel, Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder

  Achy Obejas and Megan Bayles, Immigrant Voices: 21st Century Stories

  Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman, A Thousand Beginnings and Endings: 15 Retellings of Asian Myths and Legends

  Stephanie Stokes Oliver, Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing

  Jina Ortiz and Rochelle Spencer, All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color

  Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi and Shaheen Pasha, Mirror on the Veil: A Collection of Personal Essays on Hijab and Veiling

  Retha Powers, Black Silk: A Collection of African American Erotica

  Rochelle Riley, The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery

  Sonia Shah, Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire

  Sheree R. Thomas, Dark Matter: Reading the Bones—Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

  Jael Uribe, Grito de Mujer: Antología Internacional de Mujeres Poetas

  Jesmyn Ward, The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

  Ibi Zoboi, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

  Poetry

  Elizabeth Acevedo, Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths

  Hala Alyan, Hijra

  Maya Angelou, A Brave and Startling Truth

  Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

  Shauna Barbosa, Cape Verdean Blues

  Mildred Kiconco Barya, Give Me Room to Move My Feet

  Lisa Bellear, Dreaming in Urban Areas

  Gwen Benaway, Passage

  Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge

  Tamiko Beyer, We Come Elemental

  Kimberly Blaeser, Apprenticed to Justice

  Mahogany L. Browne, Kissing Caskets

  Maya Chinchilla, The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética

  Sandra Cisneros, Loose Woman

  Laura Da’, Tributaries

  Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

  Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was an Aztec

  Demian DinéYazhi’, Ancestral Memory

  jayy dodd, Mannish Tongues

  Rita Dove, Mother Love

  r. erica doyle, proxy

  Carlina Duan, I Wore My Blackest Hair

  Heid E. Erdrich, Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media

  Rhina P. Espaillat, Where Horizons Go

  Eve L. Ewing, Electric Arches

  Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split

  t’ai freedom ford, how to get over

  Tonya M. Foster, A Swarm of Bees in High Court

  Nikita Gill, Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire, and Beauty

  Nikki Giovanni, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day

  Rain C. Goméz, Smoked Mullet Cornbread Crawdad Memory

  liz gonzález, Dancing in the Santa Ana Winds: Poems y Cuentos New and Selected

  Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Lighting the Shadow

  Suheir Hammad, Born Palestinian, Born Black: & the Gaza Suite

  Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings

  J. P. Howard, Say/Mirror

  Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Glory Gets

  Allyson Jeffredo, Songs after Memory Fractures

  Maisha Z. Johnson, No Parachutes to Carry Me Home

  June Jordan, Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan

  Janine Joseph, Driving Without a License

  Joan Naviyuk Kane, Hyperboreal

  Donika Kelly, Bestiary

  Mari L’Esperance, The Darkened Temple

  Makeda Lewis, Avie’s Dreams: An Afro-Feminist Coloring Book

  Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus

  Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things

  Michelle Lin, A House Made of Water

  Casandra Lopez, Where Bullet Breaks

  Do Nguyen Mai, Ghosts Still Walking

  Cynthia Manick, Blue Hallelujahs

  Janet McAdams, Feral

  Tiffany Midge, Outlaws, Renegades, and Saints: Diary of a Mixed-Up Halfbreed

  Aja Monet, My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

  Kamilah Aisha Moon, Starshine & Clay

  Pat Mora, Agua Santa: Holy Water

  Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Oceanic

  Naomi Shihab Nye, Fuel

  Venetta Octavia, Prelude to Light
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  Cynthia Dewi Oka, Salvage

  Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa, Rummage

  Morgan Parker, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

  Cina Pelayo, Poems of My Night

  Kiki Petrosino, Hymn for the Black Terrific

  Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Love Cake

  Khadijah Queen, I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On

  Shivanee Ramlochan, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting

  Camille Rankine, Incorrect Merciful Impulses

  Claudia Rankine, Citizen

  Barbara Jane Reyes, Poeta en San Francisco

  Margaret Rhee, Love, Robot

  Linda Rodriguez, Dark Sister

  Jenny Sadre-Orafai, Malak

  Trish Salah, Lyric Sexology, Vol. 1

  Erika L. Sánchez, Lessons on Expulsion

  Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Nightbloom & Cenote

  Nicole Sealey, Ordinary Beast

  Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

  Solmaz Sharif, Look

  Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

  Vivek Shraya, even this page is white

  Safiya Sinclair, Cannibal

  Danez Smith, Don’t Call Us Dead

  Patricia Smith, Blood Dazzler

  Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water

  Layli Long Soldier, Whereas

  Krishnan Srilata, Bookmarking the Oasis

  Aimee Suzara, Souvenir

  Sokunthary Svay, Apsara in New York

  Lehua M. Taitano, A Bell Made of Stones

  Kai Cheng Thom, A Place Called No Homeland

  Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard

  Jennifer Tseng, Red Flower, White Flower

  Alok Vaid-Menon, Femme in Public

  Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Becoming Ebony

  Sherley Anne Williams, The Peacock Poems

  Tanaya Winder, Why Storms Are Named after People and Bullets Remain Nameless

  Joyce E. Young, How It Happens

  Young People’s Literature

  Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

  Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

  Marjorie Agosín, I Lived on Butterfly Hill

  Samira Ahmed, Love, Hate & Other Filters

  Kwame Alexander and Ekua Holmes, Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

  S. K. Ali, Saints and Misfits

  Julia Alvarez, Return to Sender

  Swati Avasthi and Craig Phillips, Chasing Shadows

  Jane Bahk and Felicia Hoshino, Juna’s Jar

  Nandini Bajpai, A Match Made in Mehendi

  Tracey Baptiste, The Jumbies

  Ysaye M. Barnwell, No Mirrors in My Nana’s House

  Ruth Behar, Lucky Broken Girl