CURATED BOOK LISTS

• Educator's Playbook: The best books of 2020 for young readers UPenn GSE
• Diverse Books to Help PreK-5 Students Begin to Process the U.S. Capitol Terrorism Colorful Pages
• 26 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance
• 31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance Embrace Race
• 37 Children's books to help talk about racism and discrimination Colours of Us
• 40+ Books for Anti-Racist Teachers – White Fragiles Beware! (summer 2020 update) Culturally Responsive Leadership, Joe Truss
• Books for Littles - Resource for Parents to use books to teach young children (0-8) about various topics like racism, xenophobia, ageism, and more.
• Children's books by Black authors on confronting anti-blackness (ages 0-18) The Conscious Kid 
• Children's books to support conversations on race, racism, and resistance The Conscious Kid 
• Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
• Social Justice Books (for children) - A Teaching for Change Project

NON-FICTION

• The ABCs of Diversity: Helping Kids (and Ourselves!) Embrace Our Differences Carolyn B. Helsel and Y. Joy Harris-Smith
• Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism bell hooks
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X, Alex Haley, Attallah Shabazz
• Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Blind Spot - Hidden Biases of Good People Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Richard Rothstein
• The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap Mehrsa Baradaran
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower Dr. Brittney Cooper
• The Fire Next Time James Baldwin
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement Angela Y. Davis
• How To Be An Antiracist Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness Austin Channing Brown
• Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson
• Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty Dorothy Roberts
• Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America James Forman Jr.
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor Layla Saad
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Harriet A. Washington 
• My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies Resmaa Menakem
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century Grace Lee Boggs
• The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics George Lipsitz
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing Dr. Joy DeGruy
• The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students Anthony Abraham Jack
• Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Responsibility, and Find Our Place on the New Frontlines Jenna Arnold
• Sister Outsider Audre Lorde
• So You Want to Talk About Race Ijeoma Oluo
• The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Du Bois
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
• Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 
• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America Michael Eric Dyson
• Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race Debby Irving
• The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America Ira Katznelson
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism Robin DiAngelo
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son Tim Wise
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide Carol Anderson
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Beverly Daniel Tatum

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

• All American Boys Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely
• The Boy in the Black Suit Jason Reynolds
• Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis
• The Crossover Kwame Alexander
• The Day You Begin Jacqueline Woodson
• Elijah of Buxton Christopher Paul Curtis
• Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America Andrea Davis Pinkney
• The Hate U Give Angie Thomas
• Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans Kadir Nelson
• IntersectionAllies: We Make Room for All Chelsea Johnson, LaToya Council and Carolyn Choi
• It’s Okay to Be Different Todd Parr
• Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters Andrea Davis Pinkney
• Let’s Talk about Race Julius Lester
• Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks Jason Reynolds
• Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcom X Ilyahsah Shabazz
• March: Book One John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
• New Kid Jerry Craft
• One Crazy Summer Rita Williams-Garcis
• The Other Side Jacqueline Woodson
• The Parker Inheritance Varian Johnson
• Piecing Me Together Renee Watson
• The Season of Styx Malone Kekla Magoon
• Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice Marianne Celano
• The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles
• Sulwe Lupita Nyong’o
• The Undefeated Kwame Alexander