On May 15, I completed one year of not buying a book as I made it through my to-be-read shelf. There were plenty of books waiting in the queue.
Here's what I've read in the last six weeks. And, yes, I recommend them all.
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience – Tarana Burke and Brené Brown (editors)
Strength of Soul – Naomi Raquel Enright
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man – Emmanuel Acho
Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World – Sharon Salzberg
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America – Ijeoma Oluo
Cats of the Dawn: A Village Life and Beyond in a Sub-Saharan African Country – Ngonlardje K. Mbaidjol
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays – Damon Young
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies – Resmaa Menakem
Home Body – Rupi Kaur
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice – Adrienne Maree Brown
Juliet Takes a Breath – Gabby Rivera
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot – Mikki Kendall
The Buddhist on Death Row: How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place – David Sheff
Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out – Ruth King