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All American Boys by Jason Reynolds; Brendan KielyISBN: 9781481463348
Publication Date: 2017-08-29
In this New York Times bestselling novel, two teens--one black, one white--grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension. Simmering tensions threaten to explode as Rashad and Quinn are forced to face decisions and consequences they had never considered before. Written in tandem by two award-winning authors, this four-starred reviewed tour de force shares the alternating perspectives of Rashad and Quinn as the complications from that single violent moment, the type taken directly from today's headlines, unfold and reverberate to highlight an unwelcome truth.
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Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline WoodsonISBN: 9780062359995
Publication Date: 2017-05-30
A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award New York Times Bestseller The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years. Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything--until it wasn't. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant--a part of a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where ghosts haunted the night, where mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion. Jacqueline Woodson's Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood--the promise and peril of growing up--and exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives.
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The Bean Trees by Barbara KingsolverISBN: 9780062277756
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
The Bean Trees is bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver's first novel, now widely regarded as a modern classic. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a 3-year-old native-American little girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Tucson, Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West.
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Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonISBN: 9780679732761
Publication Date: 1995-03-14
A milestone in American literature--a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood", and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.
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Killers of the Flower Moon by David GrannISBN: 9780307742483
Publication Date: 2018-04-03
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST by the best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
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Ready Player One by Ernest ClineISBN: 9780307887443
Publication Date: 2012-06-05
In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines & puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.
The American Dream
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
- American Street by Ibi Zobo
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
- The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
- Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
- The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- Dear Martin Nic Stone
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
- Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Monster by Walter Dean Myers
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
- The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Revolution and Rebellion
- 1984 by George Orwell
- American War by Omar El Akkad
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Divergent by Veronica Roth
- Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
- Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
- Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
- March by John Lewis
- The Midwife's Revolt by Jodi Daynard
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- The Uglies by Scott Westerley
- Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
- Valiant Ambition by Nathaniel Philbrick
Power/Class/Ambition
- 1984 by George Orwell
- All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
- American War by Omar El Akkad
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone
- Divergent by Veronica Roth
- Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
- Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
- Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Imperium by Robert Harris
- Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
- The Liar's Club by Mary Karr
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
- March by John Lewis
- The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- The Power by Naomi Alderman
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- Scythe by Neal Shusterman
- Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? by Patricia C. McKissack & Fredrick McKissack
- The Uglies by Scott Westerley
- Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- White Trash by Nancy Isenberg
Immigrant Experience
- Americanah by Chimamanda Adichie
- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
- American Street by Ibi Zoboi
- Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
- The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
- House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- The Leavers by Lisa Ko
- Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel (A Graphic Novel) by Anya Ulinich
- Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
- What is the What by Dave Eggers