Read Woke Challenge - Adult Recommendations

African American Voices

• Broom, Sarah M. The Yellow House: A Memoir. NF. book | ebook
• Chatteron Williams, Thomas. Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race. NF. book
• Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. NF. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook
• Douglas, Frederick. The Portable Frederick Douglas. NF. book
• Gaines, Earnest. A Lesson Before Dying. book | ebook | CD audiobook
• Jones, Tayari. An American Marriage. book | large print | ebook | downloadable audiobook | CD audiobook
• Morrison, Toni. Beloved. book | large print | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook
• Ward, Jesmyn. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race. NF. book
• Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. NF. book | ebook
• Whitehead, Colson. Nickel Boys. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook | Playaway | downloadable audiobook

Asian American Voices

• Chung, Nicole. All You Can Ever Know. NF. book | ebook
• Davies, Peter Ho. The Fortunes. book | large print | ebook
• Lee, Erika. The Making of Asian America: A History. NF. book
• Lee, Min Jin. Pachinko. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook
• Min, Anchee. The Cooked Seed: A Memoir. NF. book
• Ng, Celeste. Everything I Never Told You. book | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook
• Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Refugees. book | ebook
• See, Lisa. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook
• Vuong, Ocean. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. book | ebook | downloadable audiobook
• Yang, Jia Lynne. One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle of American Immigration, 1924-1965. NF. book | ebook

Diverse Abilities

• Catapano, Peter. About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times. NF. book
• Eide, Brock. The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain. NF. book | downloadable audiobook
• Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon. book
• Kinsman, Kate. Hi Anxiety: Life With a Bad Case of the Nerves. NF. book
• Ludwig, Benjamin. Ginny Moon. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook
• Moyes, Jojo. Me Before You. book | large print | ebook | downloadable audiobook | CD audiobook
• Simison, Graeme. The Rosie Project. book | large print | ebook | downloadable audiobook | CD audiobook
• Solomon, Andrew. Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity. NF. book
• Taussig, Rebekah. Sitting Pretty: The View from my Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body. NF. book | ebook | downloadable audiobook
• Wong, Alice. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century. NF. book

Female Voices

• Beauvior, Simone de. The Second Sex. NF. book
• Benedict, Marie. The Only Woman in the Room. book | large print | ebook
• Dann, Patty. The Wright Sister. book
• Karbo, Karen. In Praise of Difficult Women: Lessons from 29 Heroines who Dared to Break the Rules. NF. book | ebook
• Moyes, Jojo. The Giver of Stars. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook | Playaway
• Piper, Mary. Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing as we Age. NF. book | large print | ebook
• Romm, Robin. Double Bind: Women on Ambition. NF. book
• Roosevelt, Eleanor. If You Ask Me: Essential Advice from Eleanor Roosevelt. NF. book
• Wildermuth, Erin. Womentality: Thirteen Empowering Stories from Everyday Women who Said Goodbye to the Workplace and Hello to their Lives. NF. book
• Wolitzer, Meg. The Female Persuasion. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook

Immigration

• Anbinder, Tyler. City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York. NF. book | CD audiobook
• Castillo, Marcelo Hernandez. Children of the Land. book | ebook | CD audiobook
• Cummins, Jeanine. American Dirt. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook | Playaway
• Khan, Khizr. An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice. NF. book | ebook
• Kwok, Jean. Girl in Translation. book | large print | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook
• Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook
• Luisselli, Valeria. Lost Children Archive. book | ebook
• Marlantes, Karl. Deep River: A Novel. book | ebook | CD audiobook
• Mbue, Imbolo. Behold the Dreamers: A Novel. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook
• Szejnert, Marlgorzata. Ellis Island: A People's History. NF. book

LGBTQ+ Voices

• Black, Dustin Lance. Mama's Boy: A Story From Our Americas. NF. book
• Bloom, Amy. White Houses. book | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook
• Craggs, Charlie. To My Trans Sisters. book
• Doyle, Glennon. Untamed. NF. book | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook
• Frankel, Laurie. This Is How It Always Is. NFbook | ebook | downloadable audiobook
• Greer, Andrew Sean. Less: A Novel. book | ebook | CD audiobook | large print
• John, Elton. Me. NF. book | CD audiobook | Playaway
• Jones, Cleeve. When We Rise: My Life in Movement. NF. book
• Lenhardt, Melissa. The Secret of You and Me. book | ebook | CD audiobook
• Wizenberg, Molly. The Fixed Stars. NF. book | ebook

Hispanic American Voices

• Allende, Isabel. Daughter of Fortune. book | CD audiobook
• Allende, Isabel. In the Midst of Winter. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook
• Boyle, T. Coraghessan. Tortilla Curtain. book | downloadable audiobook
• Chiaverini, Jennifer. Sonoma Rose. book | large print | CD audiobook
• Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. book | ebook
• Danticat, Edwidge. Everything Inside. NF. book | ebook
• McBride, James. Deacon King Kong. book | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook
• Ortiz, Paul. An African American and Latinx History of the United States. NF. book
• Sotomayor, Sonia. My Beloved World. NF. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook
• Urrea, Luis Alberto. The House of Broken Angels. book

Native American Voices

• Bunnell, David Hugh. Good Friday on the Rez: A Pine Ridge Odyssey. NF. book
• Dorris, Michael. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. book | large print | CD audiobook
• Erdrich, Louise. The Night Watchman. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook | Playaway
• Estes, Nick. Our History is Our Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance.NF. book
• Harjo, Joy. An American Sunrise: Poems. NF. book
• Josephy, Alvin M. Jr. The Longest Trail: Writings on American Indian History, Culture, and Politics. NF. book
• Krueger, Kent. This Tender Land. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook
• Nez, Chester. Code Talker. NF. book | CD audiobook
• Orange, Tommy. There There. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook
• Treuer, Anton. Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask. NF. book

Social Injustice

• Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. NF. book | ebook
• Conklin, Tara. The House Girl. book | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook
• Freeman, John. Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation. NF. book
• Garcia, J. Malcolm. The Fruit of All My Grief: Lives in the Shadows of the American Dream. NF. book
• Hanna-Attisha, Mona. What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City. NF. book | CD audiobook
• Mckesson, DeRay. On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope. NF. book | ebook
• Murdoch, Sierra Crane. Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country. NF. book | ebook | downloadable audiobook
• Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. NF. book | ebook | CD audiobook
• Stiglitz, Joseph E. The Price of Inequality. NF. book | CD audiobook
• Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States: 1492- Present. book | downloadable audiobook

Voices of Those Experiencing Poverty & Homelessness

• Desmond, Matthew. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. NF. book | ebook | downloadable audiobook
• Edin, Kathryn J. $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. NF. book | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook
• Kingsolver, Barbara. Flight Behavior. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook
• Land, Stephanie. Maid: hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive. NF. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook
• Patchett, Ann. The Dutch House: A Novel. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook | Playaway
• Smarsh, Sarah. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country in the World. NF. book | CD audiobook
• Vance, J.D. Hillbilly Elergy. NF. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook
• Walls, Jeannette. The Glass Castle. NF. book | large print | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook
• Weatherwax, Annie. All We Had: A Novel. book
• Wingate, Lisa. The Book of Lost Friends. book | large print | ebook | CD audiobook | downloadable audiobook