Diversity Book Club List

Book Recommendations by Age

Middle School

• Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa
• Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
• Mexican Whiteboy by Matt De La Pena
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
• The Latte Rebellion by Sarah Jamila Stevenson
• Sacajawea (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Anna Lee Waldo
• Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
• I Love Yous Are for White People by Lac Su
• Wonder by R.J. Pelacio
• Earthshine by Theresa Nelson
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi

High School

• American Born Chinese (graphic novel) by Gene Luen Yang
• Unraveling the ''Model Minority'' Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth, Second Edition by Stacey Lee
• Tracks by Louise Erdrich
• Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen – Asian American
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America by Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson
• The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
• The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Heidi Durrow

College

• Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs by David R. Roediger
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Tatum
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
• How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi
• Killers of the Dream by Lillian E. Smith
• Race Matters by Cornel West
• Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee
• Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice by Alia Malek
• The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts
• Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis
• Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
• In My Place by Charlayne Hunter-Gault
• Gender Trouble by Judith Butler