Book Titles
March 11, 2021: Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
April 8, 2021: Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
May 13, 2021: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Made in Japan, Settled in Oregon by Mitzi Asai Loftus
Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940 by Elizabeth McLagan
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
Apeirogon: A Novel by Colum McCann
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Morning the Sun Went Down: A Memoir by Darryl Babe Wilson
The First Oregonians by Laura Berg
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Oregon Democracy: Asahel Bush, Slavery, and the Statehood Debate by Barbara Mahoney (academic article)
From a Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism, 1985-1995 by Ward Churchill
See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur
Men we Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
The Overstory by Richard Powers
What You Should Know about Politics…but Don’t: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues that Matter by Jessamyn Conrad
Muslim Women Are Everything by Seema Yasmin and Fahmida Azim
The Power by Naomi Alderman
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
February 11, 2021: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong.
January 14, 2021: Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
December 10, 2020: Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
November 12, 2020: How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
October 8, 2020: When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele