Last updated: 03/05/2022

Classic and contemporary fiction, nonfiction and other reading materials to educate, interrogate, help unlearn your own racist beliefs and commit yourself to the continuing, long-term project of becoming anti-racist. 

READING LISTS

• Ibram X Kendi – Anti-Racist Reading List (via The New York Times)

NON-FICTION

• Bruce Pascoe – Dark Emu
• Stan Grant – Talking to My Country
• Anita Heiss – Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
• Reni-Eddo Lodge – Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
• Ibram X Kendi – How to Be An Antiracist
• Ibram X Kendi – Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
• Robin DiAngelo – White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
• Wesley Lowry – They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement
• Michelle Alexander – The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Era of Color Blindness
• Jesmyn Ward – The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
• Ijeoma Oluo – So You Want to Talk About Race
• bell hooks – Black Looks Race and Representation
• Angela Davis – Are Prisions Obsolete?
• bell hooks – ain’t i a woman? black women and feminism
• Audre Lorde – Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
• Mikki Kendall Hood – Feminism: Notes From the Women that a Movement Forgot
• James Baldwin – The Fire Next Time
• Janet Mock – Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
• Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• Malcolm X – The Autobiography of Malcolm X
• Frantz Fanon – The Wretched of the Earth
• Jesmyn Ward – Men We Reaped
• Paul Wilson – Black Death White Hands
• Angela Davis – Women, Race & Class
• James Forman Jr. – Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
• Dorothy Roberts – Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Recreate Race in the Twenty-First Century
• Carol Anderson – White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
• Bryan Stevenson – Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
• Layla F Saad – Me and White Supremacy
• Angela Davis – Freedom Is A Constant Struggle
• Don Weatherburn – Arresting Incarceration: Pathways out of Indigenous Imprisonment
• Tim Wise – White Like Me: Reflections On Race From A Privileged Son
• Mira Jacob – Good Talk
• Jim Wallis – America’s Original Sin
• Richard Rothstein – The Color Of Law
• Isabel Wilkerson – The Warmth Of Other Suns
• Chloe Hooper – The Tall Man
• Alex S. Vitale – The End of Policing (free e-book available here)

FICTION

• Melissa Lucashenko – Too Much Lip
• Claire G. Coleman – Terra Nullius
• Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man
• Toni Morrison – Beloved
• Colson Whitehead – The Underground Railroad
• Colson Whitehead – The Nickel Boys
• Paul Beatty – The Sellout
• Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Tayari Jones – An American Marriage
• Alice Walker – The Color Purple
• Edward P Jones – The Known World
• Jesmyn Ward – Sing, Unburied, Sing

POETRY

• Romaine Moreton – A Walk With Words
• Alf Taylor – Long Time Now: Stories of the Dreamtime, the Here and Now
• Claudia Rankine – Citizen: An American Lyric

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