SOCIAL JUSTICE READING LIST
January 2022
Fiction
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Dancing Lessons by Olive Senior
Season of Anomy by Wole Soyinka
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
Red X by David Demchuk
The Pump by Sydney Warner Brooman
In Singing, He Composed a Song by Jeremy Stewart
Suture by Nic Brewer
The Enlightenment of The Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Non-Fiction
Epic of Askia Mohammed by Thomas A. Hale
The Last Nomad by Shugri Said Salh
White Space, Black Hood by Sheryll Cashin
The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State by Lisa McGirr
Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang
This is My Real Name by Cid V Brunet
Watermelon Snow by Lynne Quarmby
Missed Connections by Brian Francis
Angry Queer Somali Boy by Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali
Short Fiction and Anthologies
Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel Moniz
People From My Neighborhood by Hiromi Kawakami
Sarahland by Sam Cohen
Hao by Ye Chun
I’m Not Hungry But I Can Eat by Christopher Gonzalez
The Ones that Don’t Say They Love You by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
Vertical Motion by Can Xue
Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat
Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler
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