Books I have read in 2022 (including picture books* and research**):
- The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy by Anne Ursu
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown**
- Call Us What we Carry by Amanda Gorman
- The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson*
- Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
- The Cost of Knowing by Brittney Morris
- A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
- Clarice the Brave by Lisa McMann
- The Me I Choose To Be by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley*
- Angel of Greenwood by Randi Pink
- Because Claudette by Tracey Baptiste*
- Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca
- Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy
- Shirley Chisholm is a Verb! by Veronica Chambers*
- Eyes That Speak to the Stars by Joanna Ho*
- Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall*
- Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon
- How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi
- I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
- The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
- Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Sophia Thakur
- When They Call You a Terrorist (Young People’s Edition): A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
- When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
- The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
- Cat Heaven by Cynthia Rylant*
- We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson
- The Bridge by Bill Konigsberg
- Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
- 4 Essential Studies: Beliefs and Practices to Reclaim Student Agency by Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher**
- All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
- The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long
- Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy
- Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk
- Nina: A Story of Nina Simone by Traci N. Todd*
- Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
- The Epic Adventure of Huggie & Stick by Drew Daywalt*
- This Is a Taco! by Andrew Cangelose*
- New from Here by Kelly Yang
- Federico and the Wolf by Rebecca J. Gomez*
- Octopus Stew by Eric Velásquez*
- If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
- The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas**
- An Arrow to the Moon by Emile X. R. Pan
- Yes We Will: Asian Americans Who Shaped This Country by Kelly Yang*
- The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
- I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
- Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed
- Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman
- Heartstopper: Volume Two by Alice Oseman
- Heartstopper: Volume Three by Alice Oseman
- Heartstopper: Volume Four by Alice Oseman
- Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi
- Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone by Tae Keller
- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
- Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
- Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
- Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
- Perfectly Imperfect Mira by Faith Pray*
- Strong by Rob Kearney*
- Respect the Mic: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School edited by Hanif Abdurraqib, Peter Khan, and Dan Sully Sullivan
- Because of You, John Lewis by Andrea Davis Pinkney*
- Don’t Eat Bees: Life Lessons from Chip the Dog by Dev Petty*
- The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune
- Tell It True by Tim Lockette
- How to Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
- What Unbreakable Looks Like by Kate McLaughlin
- Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- I Love My Beautiful Hair by Elissa Wentt*
- How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
- A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat
- The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
- The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parents Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Ross W. Greene**
- Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney
- Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
- Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry
- The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
- Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
- Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney
- The Silence That Binds Us by Joanna Ho
- Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant
- Amari and the Great Game by B. B. Alston
- The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
- The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster by Mo Willems*
- I Rise by Marie Arnold
- That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story by Huda Fahmy
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen
- The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
- Key Player by Kelly Yang
- The Next Person You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
- Narwhalicorn and Jelly by Ben Clanton*
- After the Shot Drops by Randy Ribay (reread)
- The Getaway by Lamar Giles
- Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold (reread)
- Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson (reread)
- They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera (reread)
- Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Dawud Anyabwile, and Derrick Barnes
- Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert
- I Am Ruby Bridges by Ruby Bridges and Nikkolas Smith*
- The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera
- Attack of the Black Rectangles by Amy Sarig King
- Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp
- The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander
- Odder by Katherine Applegate
- Jovita Wore Pants by Aida Salazar*
- We Are Here by Tami Charles and Bryan Collier*
- We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds
- White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao
- It’s Not the Three Little Pigs by Josh Funk*
- It’s Not Little Red Riding Hood by Josh Funk*
- Magnolia Flower by Zora Neale Hurston, Ibram X. Kendi, and Loveis Wise*
- Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon