Diversify Your Personal Library

If you're trying to find a good book to read (or listen to) while practicing social distancing (or in general), here is a list of books worth your time. Most of the books I am listing are available on:

• Scribd-unlimited audio books, books, magazines, etc for FREE for one month while we're in quarantine

• Libby/Overdrive- FREE with a library card, you have to download the app

Fiction

1. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

2. Beloved by Toni Morrison

3. The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia

4. Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah

5. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

6. Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

7. There, There by Tommy Orange

8. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

9. Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar

10. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

11. Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

12. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

13. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

14. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

15. Sula by Toni Morrison

16. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

17. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

18. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

19. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

20. The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

Nonfiction

1. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

2. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann**

3. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

*Most of these books are written by POC

**Not a POC but the story he tells is one that is definitely unknown by the general public

***This list will be continuously updated with time