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I'm a teacher, a reader, a sort-of writer sharing my thoughts on books, education, and other stuff I care about.
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (2020)
Dad’s Maybe Book by Tim OBrien (2019)
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben (2015)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD (1997/2017)
The Death of Vivek Oji by Awaeke Emezi (2020)
The Glass Hotel, The Beauty in Breaking, and Where the Forest Meets the Stars
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2003)
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (2018)
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (2012)
Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram Kendi (2020)
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (2020)
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2019)
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (2016)
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (2020)
Burn the Place by Iliana Regan (2019)
A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum (2019)
Heartland by Sarah Smarsh (2018)
Olive Kitteridge (2009) and Olive Again (2019) by Elizabeth Strout
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (2015)
Iza’s Ballad by Magda Szabo (2015/1963)
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree and American Street: two YA novels of worth
Persian Girls by Nahid Rachlin (2007)
On Tyrany: Twenty lessons from the 20th c by Timothy Snyder (2017)
Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares by Aaarti Namdev Shahani (2019)
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (2013)
The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley (2013)
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan (2017)
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (2017)
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (2019)
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein (2019)
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (2018)
Beartown by Fredrik Backman (2017)
Vox by Christina Dalcher (2018)
Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson (2019) and The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater (2017)
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (2016)
The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates (2019)
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram Kendi (2019)
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland (2002)
Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough (2018)
Waking up White by Debby Irving (2014)
With the Fire on High + The Benefits of Being an Octopus
What the Eyes Don’t See by Mona Hanna-Attisha (2018)
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions byValeria Luiselli (2017)
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (2018)
Behold the Dreamers (2016) by Imbolo Mbue
The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness (2011)
Dictator by Robert Harris (2015)
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