60 Titles From #BooksFightHate

It’s been over a week since the election, and I’m still trying to process my emotions that range from anger to fear to determination to apathy to nausea. But one of the things I have been struck by, both on Book Riot, and on social media, is how librarians and authors and bloggers are drawing on their love of books to get themselves and their fellow book lovers through these emotionally exhausting days. Books have been one of the few constants in my life, and when I started writing for Book Riot, I was really interested in writing and learning about how my favorite books helped me understand myself better. It’s a feeling that many of us share. But over the last several months, I’ve seen how books give us hope and strength and courage. They tell us to empathize and keep fighting. They give us comfort. They’re an experience we can share with strangers. In the wake of fear and violence left by the election, Justina Ireland put out this call on Twitter: https://twitter.com/justinaireland/status/797790996339851264 It’s a call to share books and it’s a call to action that we can all easily get behind, especially for those of us who already work in a library, school, or bookstore. We can push back against ignorance and fear, and we can start with this list. Here are 60 titles pulled from the Twitter suggestions that you can use to jumpstart your own revolution. Note: This is not a comprehensive list of all the Twitter recommendations.  If you have any other #ownvoice titles to suggest, let us know! 1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie 2. All American Boys – Jason Reynolds 3. American Born Chinese – Gene Luen Yang 4. Ariah – B. R. Sanders 5. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Saenz 6. A Beautiful Lie – Irfan Master 7. The Book of Unknown Americans – Cristina Enriquez 8. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz 9. Brown Girl Dreaming – Jacqueline Woodson 10. Certain Dark Things – Silvia Moreno-Garcia 11. Chameleon Moon – RoAna Sylver 12. Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court – Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve 13. Daughters of a Nation: A Black Suffragette Historical Romance Anthology by Kianna Alexander et al. 14. Does My Head Look Big in This? – Randa Abel-Fattah 15. The Education of Margot Sanchez – Lilliam Rivera 16. An Ember in the Ashes – Sabaa Tahir 17. Even This Book is White – Vivek Shraya 18. Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng 19. Everything Leads to You – Nina LaCoeur 20. George – Alex Gino 21. Golden Domes & Silver Lanterns – Hena Khan 22. The Hate U Give – AC Thomas 23. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race – Margot Lee Shetterly 24. Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi 25. The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros 26. How It Went Down – Kekla Magoon 27. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms – NK Jemisin 28. If I Was Your Girl – Meredith Russo 29. If You Could Be Mine – Sara Farizan 30. I’m Judging You: The Do Better Manual – Luvvie Ajayi 31. Infomocracy – Malka Older 32. Juliet Takes a Breath – Gabby Rivera 33. Labyrinth Lost – Zoraida Cordova 34. Laughing All the Way to the Mosque – Zarqa Nawaz 35. Lez Talk: A Collection of Black Lesbian Short Fiction – S. Andrea Allen (ed.) 36. A Long Walk to Water – Linda Sue Park 37. Looking for Bapu – Anjali Banerjee 38. Lumberjanes – Noelle Stevenson 39. March, Book 1 – John Lewis 40. The Midnight Star – Marie Lu 41. The Miseducation of Cameron Post – Emily M. Danforth 42. More Happy Than Not – Adam Silvera 43. Negroland – Margo Jefferson 44. One Crazy Summer – Rita Williams-Garcia 45. Out of Darkness – Ashley Hope Perez 46. Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi 47. Shadowshaper – Daniel Jose Older 48. Sister Mine – Nalo Hopkinson 49. Something in Between – Melissa de la Cruz 50. Sorcerer to the Crown – Zen Cho 51. The Sun is Also a Star – Nicola Yoon 52. A Taste of Honey – Kai Ashante Wilson 53. Timekeeper – Tara Sim 54. Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan 55. Under the Udala Trees – Chinelo Okparanta 56. The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead 57. The Unintentional Time Traveler – Everett Maroon  58. We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 59. When the Moon Was Ours – Anna-Marie McLemore 60. A Wish After Midnight – Zetta Elliott