“Adventure and Mediation”

Social justice reading list

March 2022

Fiction

Aquariums by J.D. Kurtness, translated by Pablo Strauss

Celia, Misoka, I by Xue Yiwei, translated by Stephen Nashef

Swimming Back to Trout River by Linda Rui Feng

Astra by Cedar Bowers

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson 

You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson 

Non-Fiction Novels 

Nishga by Jordan Abel

Return by Kamal Al-Solaylee

Praying to the West by Omar Mouallem

Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles

Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad

Short Fiction Anthologies 

Stray Dogs by Rawi Hage

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu

Tainna: The Unseen Ones by Norma Dunning

A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett

How to Date a Flying Mexican by Daniel A. Olivas