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Reading List: Expand Your Horizons

Books are both windows and mirrors. The mirrors allow us to see our experiences reflected back at us and windows allow us a glimpse into the lives of people are different from us.

Fiction

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Black Cake

by Charmaine Wilkerson

F Wilkerson

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The Family Chao

by Lan Samantha Chang

F Chang Mys

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Joan is Okay

by Weike Wang

F Wang

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Mercy Street

by Jennifer Haigh

F Haigh

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No Land to Light On

by Yara Zgheib

F Zgheib

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The Picture Bride

by Lee Geum-Yi

F Geum-yi

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Sister Mother
Warrior

by Vanessa Riley

F Riley

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True Biz

by Sarah Novic

F Novic

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We Are Not Like Them

by Christine Pride

F Pride

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Woman of Light

by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

F Fajardo-Anstine

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Brown Girls

by Daphne Palasi Andreades

F Andreades

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Four Treasures of the Sky

by Jenny Zhang

F Zhang

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A Little Life

by Hanya Yanagihara

F Yanagihara

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The Murmur of Bees

by Sofia Segovia

F Segovia

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On A Night of A Thousand Stars

by Andrea Yayura Clark

F Clark

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Portrait of a Thief

by Grace D. Li

F Li

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Take My Hand

by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

F Perkins-Valdez

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The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett

F Bennett

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What the Fireflies Knew

by Kai Harris

F Harris

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Yonder

by Jabari Asim

F Asim

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Counterfeit

by Kirsten Chen

F Chen

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The Island of Missing Trees

by Elif Shafak

F Shafak

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Memphis

by Tara M. Stringfellow

F Stringfellow

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Nightcrawling

by Leila Mottley

F Mottley

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Peach Blossom Spring

by Melissa Fu

F Fu

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The School for Good Mothers

by Jessamine Chan

F Chan

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

by Gabrielle Zevin

F Zevin

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The Violin Conspiracy

by Brendan Slocumb

F Slocumb

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When We Were Birds

by Ayana Lloyd Banwo

F Banwo

Nonfiction

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Apple (Skin to the Core)

by Eric Gansworth

92 Gansworth

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Broken Horses

by Brandi Carlile

92 Carlile

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Counting Descent

by Clint Smith

811.6 Smith

Facing the Mountain cover
Facing the Mountain

by Daniel James Brown

940.54 Brown

Loving cover
Loving

by Sheryll Cashin

306.84 Cashin

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Once a Girl, Always a Boy

by Jo Ivester

YA 92 Ivester

Becoming cover
Becoming

by Michelle Obama

92 Obama

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The Color of Law

by Richard Rothstein

305.8 Rothstein

Disability visibility cover
Disability Visibility

by Alice Wong

YA 305.9 Wong

How to Be an Antiracist cover
How to be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi

305.8 Kendi

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March

by John Lewis

YA 92 Lewis GN

The Sum of Us cover
The Sum of Us

by Heather McGhee

305.8 McGhee

The Best We Could Do cover
The Best We Could Do

by Thi Bui

92 Bui GN

The Color of Water cover
The Color of Water

by James McBride

92 McBride

The Displaced cover
The Displaced

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

305.9  Nguyen

Life on Mars cover
Life on Mars

by Tracy K. Smith

811.6 Smith

The New Jim Crow cover
The New Jim Crow

by Michelle Alexander

364.97 Alexander

Untamed Cover
Untamed

by Glennon Doyle

92 Doyle

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