Books
All books on this list can be purchased on Amazon. Many can also be checked out at your local library.
A - F
• A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hossein
• Barking to the Choir by Gregory Boyle
• Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt
• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk
• The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce Perry
• Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
• Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
• Breakfast at Sally’s by Richard LeMilux
• The Color Purple By Alice Walter
• The Deepest Well by Nadine Burke Harris
• Divided Sisters by Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell
• Dopesick by Beth Macy
• Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
• Etched in Sand by Regina Calcaterra
• Evicted by Matthew Desmond
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Fatal Invention by Dorothy Robers
G - L
• Gender Born, Gender Made: Raising Health Gender-Nonconforming Children by Diane Ehrensaft
• The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes by Diana Ehrensaft
• Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
• God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
• The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
• Helping Youth Transgender Teen: A Guide for Parents: 2nd Edition by Irwin Kreiger
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
• Hope’s Boy by Andrew Bridge
• How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
• I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
• I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• I Speak for this Child by Gay Courter
• The Invisible Man by Ralph Emerson
• Juneteenth by Ralph Emerson
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
• Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
• Locking Up Our Own by James Forman
• Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison
M - S
• Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
• The Miners Canary by Lani Guiner and Gerald Torres
• Missoula: Rape and the Justice System by Jon Krakauer
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• The Night of the Gun by David Carr
• Now What? A Handbook for Families with Transgender Children by Rex Butt
• On the Couch with Dr. Angello: A Guide to Raising and Supporting Transgender Youth by Dr. Michele Angello
• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
• The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
• Philomena by Martin Sixsmith
• Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Roundhouse by Louis Erdrich
• Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory
• The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls
• Sleeping Arrangements by Laura Cunningham
• Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
• The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
• Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults: A Guide for Professionals and Families By Finn V Gratton
T - Z
• The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professional by Stephanie A. Brill
• The Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens by Stephanie A. Brill
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• The Woman Who Saved the Children by Clare Mulley
• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
• This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
• Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
• To the End of June by Chris Beam
• Tomlinson Hill by Chris Tomlinson
• Transitions of the Heart: Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Varient Children by Rachel Pepper
• The Undefeated By Kwame Alexander
• Walk to Beautiful by Ken Abraham
• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
• What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey & Dr. Bruce D. Perry
• Where’s my Book? A Guide for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Youth, Their Parents, and Everyone Else by Linda Gromko
• White Fragility by Robin Di’Angelo
• Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell