2025 Reading List

2025 Reading List

Check back as I update this reading list often! Just about every week, I add new books I’ve accepted for review or titles I can’t resist, as well as a few backlist titles squeezed in where I can. I also update the list to include links to my reviews as they go live.

This list includes some backlist titles that I’ve read recently and plan to post reviews for this year.

For the last few years, I’ve been breaking my reading list down into categories. Click one of the headings below to go directly to my reading list in that category.

Young Adult Fiction (12 and up)

Middle Grade Fiction (8-12)

Graphic Novels/Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Young Adult Fiction

Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and Adiba Jairgirdar

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Published June 4, 2024 | My Review to Come

The Devourer by Alison Ames

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Published January 7, 2025 | My Review to Come

The Fragments That Remain by Mackenzie Angeconeb

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Published March 29, 2025 | My Review to Come

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

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Published February 13, 2024 (Orig. 1811) | My Review to Come

Woven From Clay by Jennifer Birch

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Published August 12, 2025 | My Review to Come

Warrior of Legend (Heromaker #2) by Kendare Blake

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Published October 29, 2024 | My Review

Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley

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Published September 2, 2025 | My Review to Come

Out of Step, Into You by Ciera Burch

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Published May 20, 2025 | My Review to Come

Liar’s Kingdom by Christine Calella

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Published January 14, 2025 | My Review

A Traitorous Heart by Erin Cotter

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Published January 7, 2025 | My Review

Time After Time by Mikki Daughtry

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Published May 27, 2025 | My Review to Come

The Underwood Tapes by Amanda DeWitt

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Published February 4, 2025 | My Review

Needy Little Things by Channelle Desamours

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Published February 4, 2025 | My Review

Hazelthorn by C. G. Drews

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Published October 28, 2025 | My Review to Come

Summer Girls by Jennifer Dugan

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Published May 27, 2025 | My Review to Come

After Life by Gayle Forman

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Published January 7, 2025 | My Review

The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber (Once Upon a Broken Heart #2)

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Published September 13, 2022 | My Review

A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber (Once Upon a Broken Heart #3)

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Published October 24, 2023 | My Review

I Am the Cage by Allison Sweet Grant

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Published February 18, 2025 | My Review

The Notorious Virtues by Alwyn Hamilton

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Published April 1, 2025 | My Review to Come

Thirsty: A Novel by Jas Hammonds

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Published May 14, 2024 | My Review to Come

The Wild Dark by Katherine Harbour

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Published March 11, 2025 | My Review to Come

The Secret Year by Jennifer Hubbard

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Published January 7, 2025 | My Review

Guardians of Dawn: Yuli by S. Jae-Jones

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Published August 19, 2025 | My Review to Come

Under the Fading Sky by Cynthia Kadohata

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Published April 22, 2025 | My Review to Come

Carving Shadows into Gold (Forging Silver into Stars #2) by Brigid Kemmerer

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Published January 28, 2025 | My Review

Flyboy by Kasey LeBlanc

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Published May 14, 2024 | My Review to Come

Breath of the Dragon by Fonda Lee and Shannon Lee

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Published January 7, 2025 | My Review

Nav’s Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love by Jessica Lewis

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Published April 29, 2025 | My Review to Come

Sheine Lende (Elatsoe #2) by Darcie Little Badger

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Published April 16, 2024 | My Review to Come

Love at Second Sight by F. T. Lukens

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Published April 29, 2025 | My Review to Come

Build a Girlfriend by Elba Luz

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Published January 14, 2025 | My Review to Come

We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride

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Published January 10, 2023 | My Review

Bad Graces by Kyrie McCauley

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Published June 18, 2024 | My Review to Come

Till Death by Kellan McDaniel

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Published March 18, 2025 | My Review to Come

Pride or Die by CL Montblanc

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Published April 15, 2025 | My Review to Come

This Book Might Be About Zinnia by Brittney Morris

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Published July 1, 2025 | My Review to Come

Heir of Storms by Lauryn Hamilton Murray

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Published June 3, 2025 | My Review to Come

The Floating World by Axie Oh

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Published April 29, 2025 | My Review to Come

The Spell of the Sinister (A Fairy Godmother #2) by Danielle Paige

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Published December 17, 2024 | My Review to Come

Banned Together edited by Ashley Hope Pérez

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Published March 4, 2025 | My Review

A Treachery of Swans by A. B. Poranek

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Published June 25, 2025 | My Review to Come

The Deathly Grimm by Kathryn Purdie

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Published March 25, 2025 | My Review to Come

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

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Published September 29, 2015 | My Review to Come

A Mastery of Monsters by Liselle Sambury

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Published July 29, 2025 | My Review to Come

All the Stars Align by Gretchen Schreiber

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Published April 1, 2025 | My Review to Come

All Better Now by Neal Shusterman

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Published February 4, 2025 | My Review

The Legendary Frybread Drive-in edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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Published August 26, 2025 | My Review to Come

Why on Earth: An Alien Invasion Anthology by Vania Stoyanova and Rosiee Thor

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Published February 4, 2025 | My Review

If I Have to Be Haunted by Miranda Sun

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Published September 26, 2023 | My Review to Come

Love in 280 Characters or Less by Ravynn K. Stringfield

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Published April 15, 2025 | My Review to Come

Meet Me at Blue Hour by Sarah Suk

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Published April 1, 2025 | My Review to Come

Always Be My Bibi by Priyanka Taslim

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Published June 10, 2025 | My Review to Come

What Wakes the Bells by Elle Tesch

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Published March 11, 2025 | My Review to Come

Divining the Leaves by Shveta Thakrar

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Published March 4, 2025 | My Review

They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran

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Published March 4, 2025 | My Review

Under the Neon Lights by Arriel Vinson

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Published June 3, 2025 | My Review to Come

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

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Published December 10, 2019 (Orig. 1982) | My Review to Come

Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei #1) by Abigail Hing Wen

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Published January 7, 2020 | My Review to Come

Loveboat, Forever (Loveboat, Taipei #3) by Abigail Hing Wen

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Published November 7, 2023 | My Review to Come

Pretty Girl County by Lakita Wilson

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Published July 1, 2025 | My Review to Come

How to Survive a Slasher by Justine Pucella Winans

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Published March 11, 2025 | My Review to Come

Bingsu for Two by Sujin Witherspoon

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Published January 14, 2025 | My Review

All the Tomorrows After by Joanna Yi

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Published August 19, 2025 | My Review to Come

Middle Grade Fiction

Amari and the Despicable Wonders (Supernatural Investigations #3) by B. B. Alston

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Published August 27, 2024 | My Review to Come

Rebellion 1776 by Laurie Halse Anderson

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Published April 1, 2025 | My Review to Come

Spark by Chris Baron

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Published July 15, 2025 | My Review to Come

Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea by Ashley Herring Blake

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Published May 25, 2021 | My Review to Come

Ollie in Between by Jess Callans

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Published April 8, 2025 | My Review to Come

Away by Megan E. Freeman

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Published February 11, 2025 | My Review

Dragon Spear (Dragon Slippers #3) by Jessica Day George

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Published May 12, 2009 | My Review to Come

You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P! by Alex Gino

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Published September 25, 2018 | My Review to Come

The Wild Robot (The Wild Robot #1) by Peter Green

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Published April 5, 2016 | My Review

The Wild Robot Escapes (The Wild Robot #2) by Peter Green

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Published March 13, 2018 | My Review to Come

The Wild Robot Protects (The Wild Robot #3) by Peter Green

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Published September 26, 2023 | My Review to Come

Skyriders: The Sky King (Skyriders #2) by Polly Holyoke

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Published May 7, 2024 | My Review to Come

Vanya and the Wild Hunt by Sangu Mandanna

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Published March 11, 2025 | My Review to Come

The Trouble with Heroes by Kate Messner

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Published April 29, 2025 | My Review to Come

Cousins in the Time of Magic by Emma Otheguy

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Published February 25, 2025 | My Review

City Spies: London Calling by James Ponti (City Spies #6)

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Published February 4, 2025 | My Review to Come

Joy, to the World by Kai Shappley and Lu Bunker (writing at the time as Lisa Bunker)

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Published May 9, 2023 | My Review to Come

Skandar and the Chaos Trials (Skandar #3) by A. F. Steadman

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Published May 7, 2024 | My Review to Come

Not Lucille by Mike Steele

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Published June 24, 2025 | My Review to Come

Greenwild: The Forest in the Sky (Greenwild #3) by Pari Thomson

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Published June 3, 2025 | My Review to Come

My Mummy vs. Your Ghost by Paul Tobin

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Published March 25, 2025 | My Review to Come

All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson

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Published February 4, 2025 | My Review

The Doomsday Vault (Everwhen School of Time Travel (and Other Odd Sciences) #1) by Thomas Wheeler

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Published January 28, 2025 | My Review to Come

Just Lizzie by Karen Wilfrid

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Published November 14, 2023 | My Review to Come

Wishbone by Justine Pucella Winans

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Published September 17, 2024 | My Review to Come

Graphic Novels and Adaptations

Layers: A Memoir by Pénélope Bagieu

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Published October 17, 2023 | My Review

Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas

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Published May 17, 2022 | My Review to Come

Pablo & Splash: Frozen in Time (Pablo & Splash #2) by Sheena Dempsey

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Published March 4, 2025 | My Review

Mixed-Up by Kami Garcia and Brittney Williams

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Published January 21, 2025 | My Review

Boy vs. Shark by Paul Gilligan

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Published October 15, 2024 | My Review

InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Wild Ghost Chase by John Patrick Green

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Published February 18, 2025 | My Review to Come

March: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

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Published August 14, 2013 | My Review

Let’s Talk About It: The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan

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Published March 9, 2021 | My Review

Renegade Girls: A Queer Tale of Romance and Rabble-rousing by Nora Neus

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Published April 1, 2025 | My Review to Come

A Song for You and I by K. O’Neill

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Published March 4, 2025 | My Review

The Space Cat by Nnedi Okorafor and Tana Ford

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Published August 12, 2025 | My Review to Come

You and Me on Repeat by Mary Shyne

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Published May 13, 2025 | My Review to Come

Black Heroes of the Wild West by James Otis Smith

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Published September 15, 2020 | My Review

Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band by Christian Staebler, Sonia Paoloni, and Thibault Balahy

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Published October 28, 2020 | My Review to Come

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

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Published May 7, 2019 | My Review to Come

Horse Trouble by Kristin Varner

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Published October 26, 2021 | My Review to Come

Nonfiction

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

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Published April 21, 2009 | My Review

The Ultimate Driving Book: The Essential Guide for First-Time Drivers and Car Owners by Emma Carson Berne

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Published August 27, 2024 | My Review to Come

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Published July 14, 2015 | My Review

King: A Life (Young Adult Edition) by Jonathan Eig

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Published January 7, 2025 | My Review

Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes

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Published January 5, 2021 | My Review

The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush with Rebecca Stefoff

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Published February 11, 2025 | My Review

Malcolm Lives!: The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers by Ibram X. Kendi

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Published May 13, 2025 | My Review to Come

A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, the Original Fight for Science in Schools by Debbie Levy

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Published January 14, 2025 | My Review

Trans and Gender Diverse Teen Resilience Guide by Jayme L. Peta, Deb Coolhart, and Rylan Jay Testa

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Published May 1, 2025 | My Review to Come

Why We Read by Shannon Reed

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Published February 6, 2024 | My Review

Whale Eyes by James Robinson

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Published March 18, 2025 | My Review to Come

We Need to Talk About Divorce: an IMPORTANT Book About Separation, Step Families, and Feeling Heard by Kate Scharff and Annika Le Large

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Published March 4, 2025 | My Review to Come

The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin

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Published January 21, 2014 | My Review

Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space (Young Readers Edition) by Margot Lee Shetterly

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Published November 29, 2016 | My Review

The Sky Was My Blanket by Uri Shulevitz

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Published August 19, 2025 | My Review to Come

Brave Woman, Mighty God by Laura L. Smith

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Published March 11, 2025 | My Review to Come

The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan

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Published January 17, 2023 | My Review

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, a Legacy of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History by Karen Valby (Adapted for Young Adults)

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Published January 14, 2025 | My Review

Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renée Watson and Ekua Holmes

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Published February 13, 2024 | My Review

True Gretch: Lessons for Anyone Who Wants to Make a Difference (Young Adult Edition) by Gretchen Whitmer

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Published January 28, 2025 | My Review to Come

Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

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Published August 4, 2020 | My Review to Come

The Gender Binary is a Big Lie: Infinite Identities Around the World by Lee Wind

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Published August 6, 2024 | My Review to Come