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Pride Month 2023

Non-Fiction/Biography
Are You My Mother? By Alison Bechdel
Gentrifier: A Memoir by Anne Elizabeth Moore
Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

Fiction
Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen
The Celebrant by Steven Rowley
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

 

 

Juneteenth 2023

Non-Fiction/Biography
The 1619 Project Created by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song. Edited by Kevin Young
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont
Ida B. The Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells by Michelle Duster
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Fiction
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
Jubilee by Margaret Walker
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Graphic Novel
Run by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell

 

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