W. Peter Flaig Library

Diversity Reads

Click below to see what readers on Goodreads are saying about these great books celebrating inclusivity and recognizing diversity. You can check out all of these from the Trinity library.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time IndianBestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determine...

An African American and Latinx History of the United StatesAn intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights Spanning more than two hundred years, An ...

All American BoysRashad is absent again today. That’s the sidewalk graffiti that started it all… Well, no, actually, a lady tripping over Rashad at the ...

AllegedlyMary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn’t say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only ...

American Born ChineseAll Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds that he's the only Chinese American stude...

America StreetWelcome to America Street, where every story is as vital and unique as the friends, neighbors, and relatives we encounter every day. Here...

Anger Is a GiftSix years ago, Moss Jefferies' father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. Along with losing a parent, the media's vilification of ...

The ArrivalIn a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to cross the ocean. He's embarking on th...

The Astonishing Color of AfterLeigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. Leigh, who is half As...

Between the World and Me“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.” In a profound wor...

Black EnoughBlack Enough is a star-studded anthology edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi that will delve into the closeted thoughts, hid...

Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)In the first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary...

Black Panther, Vol. 1A new era begins for the Black Panther! MacArthur Genius and National Book Award-winning writer T-Nehisi Coates (BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME...

Black Panther"YOU DESERVED SO MUCH MORE, LITTLE FLOWER. YOU DESERVED A WAKANDA THAT CHERISHED YOU." Writer ROXANE GAY (Bad Feminst, Hunger) spins a Wa...

BlindspotI know my own mind.I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way.These self-perceptions are challenged by leading psychologists M...

Brown Girl DreamingJacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolin...

Captain AmericaIn every war, people demand their champion. In World War II, that hero was Captain America. TRUTH is the controversial, declassified stor...

Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us. Now we rise. Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed ...

CitizenA provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American...

The Closest I've ComeMarcos Rivas wants to find love. He’s sure as hell not getting it at home, where his mom’s racist boyfriend beats him up. Or from his boy...

The Color of LawIn this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the ...

The Complete Maus (Maus, #1-2)Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living...

The Complete Persepolis (Persepolis, #1-4)Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unfo...

Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone joins industry giants Jason Reynolds and Walter Dean Myers as she boldly tackles America...

Dread Nation (Dread Nation, #1)Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville—derailing the War Betwee...

Dream Country The heartbreaking story of five generations of young people from a single African-and-American family pursuing an elusive dream of fre...

Dreamland BurningSome bodies won’t stay buried. Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family’s proper...

Escape to Gold MountainThis is a vivid graphic history of the Chinese experience in North America over the last 150 years, beginning with the immigration of Chi...

The 57 BusOne teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter.One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren't for the 57 bus, ...

The Fire Next TimeA national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging ...

The Fire This TimeNational Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin’s 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off po...

Ghost BoysTwelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation th...

The Harlem HellfightersFrom bestselling author Max Brooks, the riveting story of the highly decorated, barrier-breaking, historic black regiment--the Harlem Hel...

The Hate U GiveSixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she atte...

How to Be an AntiracistIbram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundament...

How Long 'til Black Future Month?In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy rea...

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican DaughterPerfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents’ house after high school graduation. Perfe...

Illegal This is a powerful and timely story about one boy's epic journey across Africa to Europe, a graphic novel for all children with glorio...

IncognegroIn the early 20th century, when lynchings were commonplace in the American South, a few brave reporters - light-skinned African-Americans...

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples. Today in the United States, there are more than...

InternmentRebellions are built on hope. Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced in...

Just MercyA powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the ...

KindredThe first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black American literature. This combination of sl...

Let Me Hear a RhymeIn this standalone novel, Tiffany D. Jackson tells the story of three Brooklyn teens who plot to turn their murdered friend into a major ...

Loving vs. VirginiaFrom acclaimed author Patricia Hruby Powell comes the story of a landmark civil rights case, told in spare and gorgeous verse. In 1955, i...

Martin Luther King and The Montgomery StoryNearly sixty years after its creation, a little-known landmark of comic book history returns! This 16-page comic is a simple but revoluti...

Miles MoralesMiles Morales takes up the mantle of the Ultimate Spider-Man! Before Peter Parker died, young Miles was poised to start the next chapter ...

Monday's Not ComingMonday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable—more sisters than friends. S...

MonsterSometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No,...

Nat TurnerThe story of Nat Turner and his slave rebellion—which began on August 21, 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia—is known among school chi...

The New Jim Crow"Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for ...

New Super-Man, Vol. 1#1 New York Times best-selling author and National Book Award nominee Gene Luen Yang continues his work at DC with New Super-Man, Volume ...

The Nickel BoysWinner of the 2020 Pulizer Prize for Fiction. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated...

Notes from a Young Black ChefBy the time he was twenty-seven, Kwame Onwuachi had competed on Top Chef, cooked at the White House, and opened and closed one of the mos...

On the Come UpSixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an undergr...

Patron Saints of NothingA coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder...

The Poet XA young girl in Harlem discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother’s religion and her own relationship to the world. Debut no...

RefugeeThree different kids. One mission in common: ESCAPE. Josef is a Jewish boy in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camp...

Shuri, Vol. 1The world fell in love with her in Marvel’s Black Panther. Now, T’Challa’s techno-genius sister launches her own adventures — written by ...

SlayBy day, seventeen-year-old Kiera Johnson is an honors student, a math tutor, and one of the only Black kids at Jefferson Academy. But at ...

So You Want to Talk About RaceIn this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to...

Stamped from the BeginningAmericans like to insist that they are living in a post-racial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has si...

StampedA timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in AmericaThis is NOT a history book.This is a book about the he...

Strange Fruit, Volume IStrange Fruit, Volume I is a collection of stories from African American history that exemplifies success in the face of great adversity....

The Sun Does ShineAnthony Ray Hinton was poor and black when he was convicted of two murders he hadn't committed. For the next three decades he was trapped...

Super BlackWinner, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 2012 Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and...

They Called Us EnemyA graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World Wa...

Tyler Johnson Was HereWhen Marvin Johnson's twin, Tyler, goes to a party, Marvin decides to tag along to keep an eye on his brother. But what starts as harmles...

Warmth of Other Suns, TheIn this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories o...

Ways of GraceInspired by Arthur Ashe’s bestselling memoir Days of Grace, a collection of positive, uplifting stories of seemingly small acts of grace ...

We Are Not Yet EqualCarol Anderson's White Rage took the world by storm, landing on the New York Times bestseller list and best book of the year lists from N...

We Were Eight Years in Power"We were eight years in power" was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy...

When They Call You a TerroristA poetic and powerful memoir about what it means to be a Black woman in America—and the co-founding of a movement that demands justice fo...

White FragilityThe New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are ch...

White Fragility, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria and So You Want to Talk About Race [Hardcover] 3 Books Collection Set

With the Fire on HighWith her daughter to care for and her abuela to help support, high school senior Emoni Santiago has to make the tough decisions, and do w...

Writings on the WallA New York Times and Washington Post Bestseller Bestselling author, basketball legend and cultural commentator Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explor...

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