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March’s Reading Challenge Prompt – Read a book about someone with a marginalized identity

Redeeming Justice / From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity On Both Sides of A Broken System by Adams, Jarrett
Another Appalachia : Coming Up Queer and Indian In A Mountain Place by Avashia, Neema
Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic by Bechdel, Alison
Hola Papi! : How to Come Out In A Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by Brammer, John Paul
Just Pursuit : A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness by Coates, Laura Gayle
High-Risk Homosexual : A Memoir by Gomez, Edgar
We Have Always Been Here : A Queer Muslim Memoir by Habib, Samra
Children of the Land by Hernandez Castillo, Marcelo
Minor Feelings : An Asian American Reckoning by Hong, Cathy Park
Good Talk : A Memoir In Conversations by Jacob, Mira
All Boys Aren't Blue : A Memoir-Manifesto by Johnson, George M
How We Fight for Our Lives : A Memoir by Jones, Saeed
When They Call You A Terrorist : A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Khan-Cullors, Patrisse
May Tomorrow Be Awake : On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future by Martin, Chris
Tomorrow Will Be Different : Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by McBride, Sarah
A Trans Man Walks Into A Gay Bar : A Journey of Self (and Sexual) Discovery by Nicholas, Harry
Autism In Heels : the Untold Story of A Female Life On the Spectrum by O'Toole, Jennifer Cook
Undocumented : A Dominican Boy's Odyssey From A Homeless Shelter to the IVy League by Padilla Peralta, Dan-El
Self-Ish : A Transgender Journey Toward Wholeness by Schwenke, Chloe
The Risk It Takes to Bloom : On Life and Liberation by Willis, Raquel
When I'm Gone, Look for Me In the East by Barry, Quan
Felix Ever After by Callender, Kacen
The House of Impossible Beauties by Cassara, Joseph
The Wangs Vs. the World by Chang, Jade
Gods of Want : Stories by Chang, K-Ming
Disorientation by Chou, Elaine Hsieh
Of Women and Salt by Garcia, Gabriela
Less : A Novel by Greer, Andrew Sean
Transcendent Kingdom by Gyasi, Yaa
Didn't Nobody Give A Shit What Happened to Carlotta by Hannaham, James
The Sweetness of Water by Harris, Nathan
The Other Black Girl : A Novel by Harris, Zakiya Dalila
Boys of Alabama : A Novel by Hudson, Genevieve
The Lowland : A Novel by Lahiri, Jhumpa
Number One Chinese Restaurant : A Novel by Li, Lillian
Severance by Ma, Ling
The Bad Muslim Discount : A Novel by Masood, Syed
How Beautiful We Were : A Novel by Mbue, Imbolo
Mexican Gothic by Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
The Bluest Eye by Morrison, Toni
The Maid : A Novel by Prose, Nita
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by Schwab, VIctoria
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane : A Novel by See, Lisa
The Rosie Project : A Novel by Simsion, Graeme C
The Deep by Solomon, Rivers
Unmarriageable : A Novel by Soniah Kamal
The House of Broken Angels : A Novel by Urrea, Luis Alberto
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Vo, Nghi
Seven Days In June : A Novel by Williams, Tia
Red At the Bone by Woodson, Jacqueline
Interior Chinatown : A Novel by Yu, Charles
Connie : A Memoir by Chung, Connie
Ghosts of Gold Mountain : the Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad by Chang, Gordon H
Hidden Figures : the American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Shetterly, Margot Lee
We're Not Broken : Changing the Autism Conversation by Garcia, Eric
Unmasking Autism : Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Price, Devon
Spare Parts : Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream by Davis, Joshua
Pageboy : A Memoir by Page, Elliot
Born A Crime : Stories From A South African Childhood by Noah, Trevor
Ten Steps to Nanette :  A Memoir Situation by Gadsby, Hannah
She Memes Well : Essays by Brunson, Quinta
Born Free and Equal : Photographs of the Loyal Japanese-Americans by Adams, Ansel
They Called Us Enemy by Takei, George
Japanese American Incarceration : the Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II by Hinnershitz, Stephanie
Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege : Essays On Hawai'I by Prato, Liz
The Making of Asian America : A History by Lee, Erika
The Souls of Yellow Folk : Essays by Yang, Wesley
Gentleman Jack : the Real Anne Lister by Choma, Anne
Wow, No Thank You. : Essays by Irby, Samantha
The House In the Cerulean Sea by Klune, Tj
Red, White & Royal Blue : A Novel by McQuiston, Casey
No One Is Too Small to Make A Difference by Thunberg, Greta
Kindred by Butler, Octavia E
The House On Mango Street by Cisneros, Sandra
Take A Hint, Dani Brown : A Novel by Hibbert, Talia
Last Tang Standing by Ho, Lauren
The Kiss Quotient by Hoang, Helen
The Outside by Hoffmann, Ada
Ayesha At Last by Jalaluddin, Uzma
One Last Stop by McQuiston, Casey
Unseelie by Housman, IVelisse
The Best We Could Do : An Illustrated Memoir by Bui, Thi
His Name Is George Floyd : One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Samuels, Robert
In the Dream House : A Memoir by Machado, Carmen Maria
Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls by Rippon, Gina
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Alvarez, Julia
When I Was Puerto Rican : [a Memoir] by Santiago, Esmeralda
Just Mercy : A Story of Justice and Redemption by Stevenson, Bryan
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Sáenz, Benjamin Alire
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Sánchez, Erika L
Punching the Air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Red Hot Salsa : Bilingual Poems On Being Young and Latino In the United States by
The Poet X : A Novel by Acevedo, Elizabeth
This Is Why They Hate Us by Aceves, Aaron H
Don't Ask Me Where I'm From by de Leon, Jennifer
On the Spectrum by Gold, Jennifer
You Should See Me In A Crown by Johnson, Leah (young Adult Author)
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Mafi, Tahereh
Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Maldonado, Crystal
Juliet Takes A Breath by Rivera, Gabby
Cemetery Boys by Thomas, Aiden
This Place Is Still Beautiful by Tian, XIXi
Beyond Magenta : Transgender Teens Speak Out by Kuklin, Susan
Funny, You Don't Look Autistic : A Comedian's Guide to Life On the Spectrum by McCreary, Michael
Rubyfruit Jungle : A Novel by Brown, Rita Mae
You Truly Assumed by Sabreen, Laila