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Literary Immersion Circle | Books That Transform
BOOKS HAVE THE ENERGY TO TRANSFORM US
Books We've Read (bold = priority reads)
(in the order we've read them, newest (top) to oldest (bottom))
Imagination - Ruha Benjamin
When Affirmative Action Was White - Ira Katznelson
Sleep Donation - Karen Russell
The Pain We Carry - Natalie Gutiérrez
Gray Areas - Adia Wingfield
The Body Keeps the Score
Nexus - Yuval Harari
Switchers - Dawn Graham
Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao
The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin
Decolonizing Therapy - Jennifer Mullan
Rest is Resistance - Tricia Hersey
Burnout - Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories - Tananarive Due
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers - Robert Sapolsky
The First 20 Hours - Josh Kaufman
The Grieving Brain - Mary-Frances O'Connor
How We Can Win - Kimberly Jones
Unstoppable Us, Volume 2 - Yuval Harari (also explains US Taxes)
Unstoppable Us, Volume 1 - Yuval Harari
True Biz - Sara Novic
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
Maxine Justice: Galactic Attorney - Daniel Schwabauer
The Whiteness of Wealth - Dorothy A. Brown (Top Recommendation re US Taxes)
You’re Not Broke, You’re Pre-Rich - Mapalo Makhu
Black Rednecks and White Liberals - Thomas Sowell
Sapiens - Yuval Harari
Becoming Kin - Patty Krawec
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
The Racial Healing Handbook - Anneliese Singh
The Four Workarounds - Paulo Savaget
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States - Kyle Mays
Healing Resistance - Kazu Haga
Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall
Biased - Jennifer Eberhardt
Trauma Stewardship - Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, Connie Burk
The Machine Stops - E. M. Forster
White Trash - Nancy Isenberg
Do Nothing - Celeste Headlee
White Women - Regina Jackson, Saira Rao (Top Recommendation to Read ASAP)
Abolition. Feminism. Now. - Gina Dent, Angela Y. Davis, Beth Richie
The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen - Sean Sherman with Beth Dooley
The Myth of Race - Robert Sussman
Forty Million Dollar Slaves - William Rhoden
Minor Feelings - Cathy Park Hong
Decolonizing Methodologies - Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Shadow Network - Anne Nelson
Fear of Black Consciousness - Lewis Gordon
Becoming Human - Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
Read This to Get Smarter - Blair Imani
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone - Heather McGhee
How to Do Nothing - Jenny Odell
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
Thunder Rose - Jerdine Nolen
The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree - Nice Leng'ete
While Justice Sleeps - Stacey Abrams
Eloquent Rage - Brittney Cooper
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
African Europeans, An Untold History - Olivette Otele
Afro-Vegan - Bryant Terry
Rufus Estes' Good Things to Eat - Chef Rufus Estes
Me and White Supremacy - Layla Saad
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey - Amber Ruffin
Nice Racism - Robin DiAngelo
The Chalice and the Blade - Riane Eisler
A Little History of the World - E. H. Gombrich
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
White Kids - Margaret A. Hagerman
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro - Henry Louis Gates
Lies My Teacher Told Me - James Loewen
The Lost Eleven - Denise George
L'art de la Simplicité - Dominque Loreau
Hunger - Roxane Gay
The French Revolution in a Nutshell - Neil Wenborn
Negroland - Margo Jefferson
Rising Out of Hatred - Eli Saslow
Citizen, An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine
The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl - Issa Rae
Never Caught - Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Loving - Sheryll Cashin
The Devil Finds Work - James Baldwin
You Can't Touch My Hair - Phoebe Robinson
Sister Citizen - Melissa Harris-Perry
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Defining Moments in History, Reading Between the Lies - Dick Gregory
Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay
The New Jim Crow (10th Anniversary Edition) - Michelle Alexander
White Too Long - Robert Jones
Talking to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell
Caste - Isabel Wilkerson (an Absolute Must Read)
My Grandmother's Hands - Resmaa Menakem
A Macat Analysis of The Wretched Earth by Frantz Fanon - Riley Quinn
The Will to Change - Bell Hooks
The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram Kendi
Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler
Mind Over Money - Claudia Hammond
How to be Less Stupid About Race - Crystal Fleming
The Meritocracy Trap - Daniel Markovits
How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram Kendi
White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo
Tightrope - Nicholas Kristof
Winners Take All - Anand Giridharadas
This is Service Design Thinking - Marc Stickdorn
This is Service Design Doing - Marc Stickdorn
Unladylike - Cristen Conger
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
Weaponized Lies - Daniel Levitin
The Sisters Are Alright - Tamara Winfrey Harris
An Everyone Culture - Robert Kegan
Boys Adrift - Leonard Sax
Silos, Politics and Turf Wars - Patrick Lencioni
Jealousy - Paul Hauck
The Introvert Entrepreneur - Beth Buelow
Pitch Perfect - Bill McGowan
Social Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
King Peggy - Peggielen Bartels
Inferior - Angela Saini
Future Science - Max Brockman
Turn Your Mate into Your Soulmate - Arielle Ford
Life Reimagined - Richard Leider
It! - Paula Froelich
A Spymaster’s Secrets for Learning a Foreign Language
Everydata - Mike Gluck
The Schmuck in My Office - Jody Foster, MD, MBA
Leadership BS - Jeffrey Pfeffer
Callings - David Isay
Anatomy of Love - Helen Fisher
Table Manners - Jeremiah Tower
Lose the Clutter, Lose the Weight - Peter Walsh
Upcoming Reads
Suggestions from fellow readers and our own discoveries (next up):
The Message - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 3
Sleep Donation - Karen Russell
Lead from the Outside - Stacey Abrams
How Long ’til Black - N. K. Jemisin
Slavery’s Exiles - Sylviane Diouf
The Beginning and End of Rape - Sarah Deer
How You Learn is How You Live - Kay Peterson, David Kolb
The Black Box - Henry Louis Gates, Jr
The City We Became - N. K. Jemisin
The World We Make - N. K. Jemisin
Mediocre - Ijeoma Oluo
Equality for Women, Prosperity for All - Augusto Lopez-Claros
Neuroscience for Leaders - Nikolaos Dimitriadis
Reckoning with Slavery - Jennifer Morgan
Rez Life - David Treuer
Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde
Solidarity Economics - Chris Benner, Manuel Pastor
Abolition - Angela Davis
Suggestions from fellow readers and our own discoveries (in alphabetical order):
American Indians, American Justice - Vine Deloria & Clifford Lytle
Dark Matters - Simone Browne
Designs for the Pluriverse - Arturo Escobar
Disability Visibility - Alice Wong
Four Hundred Souls - Ibram Kendi
Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Davis
From Here to Equality - William Darity, Jr.
Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly
How the Word is Passed - Clint Smith
Hundred in the Hand - Joseph Marshall III
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being - Christina Sharpe
Indian Givers - Jack Weatherford
Necropolitics - Achille Mbembe
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality - Cheikh Anta Diop
The Book of Lost Friends - Lisa Wingate
The Color of Compromise - Jemar Tisby
The Deconstruction of Black Civilization - Chancellor Williams
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding - Robert Hughes
The Wisdom of Psychopaths - Kevin Dutton
The World We Used To Live In - Vine Deloria, Jr.
When They Call You A Terrorist - Khan-Cullors & Bandele