2022

Books I have read in 2022 (including picture books* and research**):

  1. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  2. The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy by Anne Ursu
  3. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown**
  4. Call Us What we Carry by Amanda Gorman
  5. The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson*
  6. Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
  7. The Cost of Knowing by Brittney Morris
  8. A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia
  9. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
  10. Clarice the Brave by Lisa McMann
  11. The Me I Choose To Be by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley*
  12. Angel of Greenwood by Randi Pink
  13. Because Claudette by Tracey Baptiste*
  14. Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca
  15. Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy
  16. Shirley Chisholm is a Verb! by Veronica Chambers*
  17. Eyes That Speak to the Stars by Joanna Ho*
  18. Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall*
  19. Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon
  20. How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi
  21. I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
  22. The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
  23. Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Sophia Thakur
  24. 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
  25. When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
  26. The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
  27. Cat Heaven by Cynthia Rylant*
  28. We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson
  29. The Bridge by Bill Konigsberg
  30. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
  31. 4 Essential Studies: Beliefs and Practices to Reclaim Student Agency by Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher**
  32. All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
  33. The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long
  34. Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy
  35. Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk
  36. Nina: A Story of Nina Simone by Traci N. Todd*
  37. Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
  38. The Epic Adventure of Huggie & Stick by Drew Daywalt*
  39. This Is a Taco! by Andrew Cangelose*
  40. New from Here by Kelly Yang
  41. Federico and the Wolf by Rebecca J. Gomez*
  42. Octopus Stew by Eric Velásquez*
  43. If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
  44. The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas**
  45. An Arrow to the Moon by Emile X. R. Pan
  46. Yes We Will: Asian Americans Who Shaped This Country by Kelly Yang*
  47. The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
  48. I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
  49. Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed
  50. Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman
  51. Heartstopper: Volume Two by Alice Oseman
  52. Heartstopper: Volume Three by Alice Oseman
  53. Heartstopper: Volume Four by Alice Oseman
  54. Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi
  55. Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone by Tae Keller
  56. The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
  57. Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
  58. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
  59. Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
  60. Perfectly Imperfect Mira by Faith Pray*
  61. Strong by Rob Kearney*
  62. Respect the Mic: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School edited by Hanif Abdurraqib, Peter Khan, and Dan Sully Sullivan
  63. Because of You, John Lewis by Andrea Davis Pinkney*
  64. Don’t Eat Bees: Life Lessons from Chip the Dog by Dev Petty*
  65. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune
  66. Tell It True by Tim Lockette
  67. How to Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  68. House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
  69. What Unbreakable Looks Like by Kate McLaughlin
  70. Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
  71. I Love My Beautiful Hair by Elissa Wentt*
  72. How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
  73. A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat
  74. The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
  75. The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parents Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Ross W. Greene**
  76. Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney
  77. Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
  78. Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry
  79. The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
  80. Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
  81. Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney
  82. The Silence That Binds Us by Joanna Ho
  83. Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant
  84. Amari and the Great Game by B. B. Alston
  85. The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
  86. The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster by Mo Willems*
  87. I Rise by Marie Arnold
  88. That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story by Huda Fahmy
  89. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
  90. You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen
  91. The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert
  92. The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
  93. Key Player by Kelly Yang
  94. The Next Person You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
  95. Narwhalicorn and Jelly by Ben Clanton*
  96. After the Shot Drops by Randy Ribay (reread)
  97. The Getaway by Lamar Giles
  98. Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold (reread)
  99. Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson (reread)
  100. They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera (reread)
  101. Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Dawud Anyabwile, and Derrick Barnes
  102. Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert
  103. I Am Ruby Bridges by Ruby Bridges and Nikkolas Smith*
  104. The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera
  105. Attack of the Black Rectangles by Amy Sarig King
  106. Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp
  107. The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander
  108. Odder by Katherine Applegate
  109. Jovita Wore Pants by Aida Salazar*
  110. We Are Here by Tami Charles and Bryan Collier*
  111. We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds
  112. White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao
  113. It’s Not the Three Little Pigs by Josh Funk*
  114. It’s Not Little Red Riding Hood by Josh Funk*
  115. Magnolia Flower by Zora Neale Hurston, Ibram X. Kendi, and Loveis Wise*
  116. Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon