Diversity Reading Group

2021-2022

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer  
• Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
• The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
• The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

2020-2021

• The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
• The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui
• The Prince of Los Cocuyos by Richard Blanco
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
• Members Only by Sameer Pandya
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

2019-2020

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space by Margot Lee Shetterly
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• There There by Tommy Orange

2018-2019

• Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
• This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
• Well, That Escalated Quickly by Franchesca Ramsey
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

2017-2018

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude Steel
• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

2016-2017

• The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi
• Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
• Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony Greenwald
• I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot By the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
• The Round House by Louise Erdrich
• A Tale for The Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

2015-2016

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
• Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America by Eboo Patel
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo