Denise’s Non-Exhausting Current Reads – 2020
These are books I have either recently read, am reading, or am working on a re-read. I am one of those people who will read 4-6 books at once, especially ones that are dense informationally. I like to read a chapter or two and then spend some time digesting the information. It can be a bit chaotic, but it works for me.
These are fiction and non-ficture. I am working hard to ensure I am including authors from diverse backgrounds, and it has been paying off. I am in mad love with Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s Mycroft Holmes series and Legendborn is the best retelling of Arthurian mythos I have seen in ages.
Mycroft series by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo (definitely a one chapter at a time book)
Life In Year One by Scott Korb (history nerds unite!)
The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The Golden Thread by Kassia St. Clair
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimerer
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Burning House by Andres Walker
Ichiro by Ryan Inzana (graphic novels ROCK)
The Reason I Jump by David Mitchell and Naoki Higashida (addressing my own ableism)
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss (always working on my mediation game)
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Blackballed by Darryl Pinckney
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Crescent City by Sarah J. Maas
A Sense of the World by Jason Roberts
The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Eat a Peach by David Chang
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
