Community Read Book Honorable Mentions

The following list of books are suggestions the community has made over the past few years for the Community Read, but were not picked to be the main book.

• The 1691 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones and the New York Times Magazine
• America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis
• Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Howard French
• Bronze Pillars: An Oral History of African-Americans in Flint by Rhonda Sanders
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• Disruptive Thinking: Why How We Read Matters by Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst
• Driving While Black by Gretchen Sorin
• Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
• Evicted by Matthew Desmond
• The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
• The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward
• Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
• From Jim Crow to CEO: The Willie E. Artis Story by Willie Artis
• Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister
• The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
• How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
• I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin and Raoul Peck
• I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• The Inner Work of Racial Justice by Rhonda V. Magee
• Mediocre by Ijeoma Olue
• Motown Man by Bob Campbell
• My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menekem
• On the Other Side of Freedom by DeRay Mckesson
• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
• Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by Ernst F. Schumacher
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
• They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
• Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
• Walking in the Wind by John Lewis and Michael D'Orso
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
• White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Working Toward Whiteness by David Roediger