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Presidential Series Reading Suggestions

Colson Whitehead (Sag Harbor; Nickel Boys; Underground Railroad; Harlem Shuffle):

•     Sellout (Paul Beatty)
•     Water Dancer (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
•     Leave the World Behind (Rumaan Alam)
•     Heads of Colored People (Nafissa Thompson-Spires)
•     Friday Black (Nana Adjei-Brenyah)
•     Washington Black (Esi Edugyan)
•     An American Marriage (Tayari Jones)
•     Office of Historical Corrections (Danielle Evans)
•     Everywhere You Don’t Belong (Gabriel Bump)
•     Five-Carat Soul (James McBride)
•     Prophets: A Novel (Robert Jones Jr.)
•     They Come in All Colors (Malcolm Hansen)
•     Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
•     Native Son (Richard Wright)

Dr. Damon Tweedy (Black Man in a White Coat)

•     Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Atul Gawande)
•     Immortal Life Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
•     Medical Apartheid (Harriet Washington)
•     Caring for Equality: A History of African American Health and Healthcare (David McBride)
•     Kissing Bug: A True Story of a family, an Insect and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease (Daisy Hernandez)

Edwidge Danticat (Farming of Bones; Krik?Krak!; Breath, Eyes, Memory; Dew Breaker; Brother I’m Dying; Claire of the Sea Light; Everything Inside: Stories; Create Dangerously; After the Dance; Butterfly’s Way):

•     Untamed State (Roxanne Gay)
•     Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti (Mark Schuller)
•     Confronting Black Jacobins (Gerald Horne)
•     The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon (Philippe Girard)
•     Vodou in Haitian Memory (Celucien Joseph)
•     Borders of Dominicanidad (Lorgia Garcia-Pena)
•     History of Haiti (Steeve Coupeau)
•     A Wedding in Haiti (Julia Alvarez)
•     The Woman Who Lost her Soul (Bob Shacohis)
•     Vodou Nation: Haitian Art, Music and Cultural Nationalism (Michael Largey)
•     Tree of Liberty: Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World  (Doris Lorraine Garraway)
•     In Darkness (Nick Lake)
•     Migrant Revolutions: Haitian Literature, Globalization and U.S. Imperialism (Valerie Kaussen)
•     Dining with the Dictator (Dany Laferriere)

Isabel Wilkerson (Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents; Warmth of Other Suns) :

•     Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Ayana Mathis)
•     White Tiger (Aravind Adija)
•     How the Word is Passed (Clint Smith)
•     Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett)
•     Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)
•     Color of Law: a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Richard Rothstein)
•     Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Heather McGhee)
•     Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois (Honoree Jeffers)
•     Lowland (Jhumpa Lahiri)
•     Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
•     Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Ibram Kendi)
•     Authentically Black and Truly Catholic: the Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration (Matthew Cressler)
•     Life Upon These Shores (Henry Gates)
•     Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations (Ira Berlin)