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Instructional Materials Center (IMC) Booklists

The IMC provides several Books Lists to help people navigate different topics within their K-12 library on the lower level of Belk Library & Information Commons.

Diversity Picks from the University Libraries' Faculty & Staff

A queer and pleasant danger : a memoir by Kate Bornstein
Absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian, The by Sherman Alexie
Affrilacha / Poems by Frank X. Walker
All you can ever know : a memoir by Nicole Chung
American born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
An American Marriage: A Novel by Tayari Jones
Appalachian reckoning : a region responds to Hillbilly Elegy edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll
The Arabian nights : tales from a Thousand and one nights translated, with a preface and notes by Richard F. Burton ; introduction by A.S. Byatt
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The autobiography of Malcolm X / with the assistance of Alex Haley
Aya : of Yop City by Marguerite Abouet, Clément Oubrerie
Bad feminist : essays by Roxane Gay
Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada, Art by Ko Hyung-Ju
Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Bitch : in praise of difficult women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Black leopard, red wolf by Marlon James
Blind rage : letters to Helen Keller by Georgina Kleege
The Broken Cart: A Rural Girl's Journey Through China's Cultural Revolution and Beyond by Xiaorong Shao
Caste : the Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
The collected schizophrenias : essays by Esmé Weijun Wang
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time based on the novel by Mark Haddon; adapted by Simon Stephens
Devil in a Blue Dress : an Easy Rawlins novel by Walter Mosley
Educated : a memoir by Tara Westover
The empathy exams : essays by Leslie Jamison
Fargo rock city : a heavy metal odyssey in rural Nörth Daköta by Chuck Klosterman
Feminism is for everybody : passionate politics by bell hooks
Flying lessons & other stories edited by Ellen Oh
The Foxfire book edited with an introd. by Eliot Wigginton
Fresh ink edited by Lamar Giles
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Gone home : race and roots through Appalachia by Karida L. Brown
Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers
The house on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
I'll give you the sun by Jandy Nelson
In the dream house : a memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao Junot Díaz ; traducción de Achy Obejas
Last will, last testament by Frank X. Walker
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Long time coming : reckoning with race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
Magnificent homespun brown : a celebration by Samara Cole Doyon
The matter of black lives : writing from the New Yorker by James Baldwin
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
Number our days by Barbara Myerhoff
The only good Indians : a novel by Stephen Graham Jones
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Pedagogy of the oppressed by Paulo Freire
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber
Prozac nation : young and depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Queenie by Candice Carty Williams
The rose code : a novel by Kate Quinn
Sarah's key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The second sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Staubs and ditchwater : A friendly and useful introduction to hillfolks' hoodoo by H. Byron Ballard
Sugar run : a novel by Mesha Maren
The things they carried by Tim O'Brien
Two moons : stories by Krystal A. Smith
The undefeated by Kwame Alexander
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
White teeth : a novel by Zadie Smith
Wild swans : three daughters of China by Jung Chang
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers