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A note from Laura: a number of blockbuster hit books over the last decade have been historical novels that follow women's stories. Many of these books fictionalize the lives of real women, and others delve into intriguing historical periods. Here are a few titles you might like if you enjoy character-centered historical fiction:
 Black in the Middle: an Anthology of the Black Midwest, ed. Terrion Williamson, 977.04 BLA The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez, Aaron Bobrow-Strain, 972.1 BOB * The Yellow House, Sarah Broom, 814 BRO * The Heritage, Howard Bryant, 306.483 BRY Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, 305.8 COA *ª An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, 970.004 DUN *ª Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, Cathy Park Hong, 305.4895 HON I Am Not Your Negro, DVD 323.1196 IAM Survival Math, Mitchell S. Jackson, 305.8 JAC Wandering in Strange Lands, Morgan Jerkins, 305.89 JER *ª  Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi, 305.8 KEN * Conditional Citizens, Laila Lalami, 323.6 LAL ª Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon, 305.89 LAY *ª The Making of Black Lives Matter, Christopher J. Lebron, 305.896 LEB Brown White Black, Nishta Mehra, 305.8 MEH Dying of Whiteness, Jonathan Metzl, 362.1089 MET * So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo, 305.8 OLU *ª Finding Latinx, Paola Ramos, 305.8 RAM Just Us: an American Conversation, Claudia Rankine, 305.896 RAN  Me and White Supremacy, Layla F. Saad, 305.809 SAA *ª My Vanishing Country, Bakari Sellers, 328.73 SEL *ª No Human Is Illegal, J.J. Mulligan Sepulveda, 325.73 SEP Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream, Mychal Denzel Smith, 973.933 SMI A More Beautiful and Terrible History, Jeanne Theoharis, 323.1196073 THE The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, David Treuer, 970.004 TRE *ª Caste, Isabel Wilkerson, 305.5 WIL *ª You may also have interest in the lists Policing, Justice, and Prisons and Fiction on Race in the United States.
 The Sellout, Paul Beatty, F BEA * The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett, F BEN *ª The Gone Dead, Chanelle Benz, F BEN * Everywhere You Don’t Belong, Gabriel Bump, F BUM * Days of Distraction, Alexandra Chang, F CHA * Ring Shout, P. Djeli Clark, SF CLA The Office of Historical Corrections, Danielle Evans, F EVA Sabrina & Corina, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, F FAJ * Get Out, DVD GET You Should See Me in a Crown, Leah Johnson, YA F JOH *ª The Other Americans, Laila Lalami, F LAL *ª Destroyer, Victor LaValle, GN LAV Bluebird, Bluebird, Attica Locke, M LOC HIG-1 *ª  Deacon King Kong, James McBride, F MCB *ª
John Woman, Walter Mosley, F MOS * New Waves, Kevin Nguyen, F NGU Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid, F REI *ª The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas, YA F THO *ª On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong, F VUO *ª Family Trust, Kathy Wang, F WAN *ª Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward, F WAR *ª Memorial, Bryan Washington, F WAS *ª The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead, F WHI *ª American Spy, Lauren Wilkinson, F WIL *ª Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson, F WOO *ª Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu, F YU *  The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander, 364.973 ALE *ª Citizen Outlaw, Charles Barber, 359.1 BAR A Knock at Midnight, Brittany K. Barnett, 340.092 BAR American Prison, Shane Bauer, 365.973 BAU *ª Doing Justice, Preet Bharara, 347.73 BHA *ª Accused!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys, Larry Dane Brimner, YA 345 BRI The Line Becomes a River, Francisco Cantú, 363.285 CAN *ª The Central Park Five, DVD 364.15 CEN Supreme Inequality, Adam Cohen, 347.7326 COH Decarcerating America, Ernest M. Drucker, 364.6 DRU Locking Up Our Own, James Forman, 364.6 FOR * Guilty Until Proven Guilty, DVD 364.9 GUI The Second Chance Club, Jason Matthew Hardy, 364.62 HAR  A Colony in a Nation, Chris Hayes, 364.973 HAY *ª The Sun Does Shine, Anthony Ray Hinton, 364.66092 HIN *ª The Black and the Blue, Matthew Horace, 363.2092 HOR A False Report, T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong, 364.1532 MIL * Race Against Time, Jerry Mitchell, 364.1523 MIT * Waiting for an Echo, Christine Montross, 365.6 MON Five Days, Wes Moore & Erica L. Green, 363.32 MOO * Prison By Any Other Name, Maya Schenwar & Vikki Law, 364.6 SCH Big Black: Stand at Attica, Frank Smith, Jared Reinmuth & Améziane, GN SMI Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, 353.48 STE *ª Good Kids Bad City, Kyle Swenson, 345.77 SWE The Thin Blue Line BLU 364.152 THI Deep Delta Justice, Matthew Van Meter, 323.4 VAN Solitary, Albert Woodfox, 365.6 WOO You may also have interest in the lists Race and Racism in the United States and Fiction on Race in the United States.
 Some Assembly Required, Arin Andrews, YA 306.76 AND * Becoming an Ally to the Gender-Expansive Child, Anna Bianchi, Parents' +155.33 BIA A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns, Archie Bongiovanni, YA GN BON Felix Ever After, Kacen Callender, YA F CAL *ª Pet, Akwaeke Emezi, YA F EME *ª This Is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel, F FRA *ª How to They/Them, Stuart Getty, 306.76 GET George, Alex Gino, +F GIN *ª I Am Jazz!, Jessica Herthel & Jazz Jennings, ++ HER *  Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe, GN KOB * Beyond Magenta, Susan Kuklin, YA 306.768 KUK * Something that May Shock and Discredit You, Daniel M. Lavery, 814 ORT * Julián Is a Mermaid, Jessica Love, ++ LOV * When Aidan Became a Brother, Kyle Lukoff, ++ LUK Tomorrow Will Be Different, Sarah McBride, 306.768 MCB Dark and Deepest Red, Anna-Marie McLemore, YA F MCL *ª Redefining Realness, Janet Mock, 306.768 MOC The Bold World, Jodie Patterson, 306.874 PAT *ª Who Are You? The Kid's Guide to Gender Identity, Brook Pessin-Whedbee, +305.3 PES  Ana on the Edge, A.J. Sass, +F SAS Apsara Engine, Bishakh Som, GN SOM She/He/They/Them: Understanding Gender Identity, Rebecca Stanborough, +305.3 STA Fairest, Meredith Talusan, 305.3 TAL Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas, YA F THO * It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book about Gender Identity, Theresa Thorn, +305.3 THO * Beyond the Gender Binary, Alok Vaid-Menon, YA 305 VAI * A note from Laura: As gender identity has become a much more freely-discussed topic, more books on the subject have been published. This updated list includes many authors who are transgender and nonbinary, and more resources for readers of all ages who are exploring their own gender identity.
 Meet Me in Atlantis, Mark Adams, 398.234 ADA The Map Thief, Michael Blanding, 364.1628 BLA * A History of the World in 12 Maps, Jerry Brotton, 911 BRO Where the Animals Go, James Cheshire, 591.479 CHE Cielo, DVD 520 CIE The Routes of Man, Ted Conover, 388.1 CON The Family Tree Historical Atlas of American Cities, Allison Dolan, 911.73 DOL Soundings, Hali Felt, 526.092 FEL Atlas Obscura, Joshua Foer, et al., 910.202 FOE On the Map, Simon Garfield, 912.09 GAR The Island of Lost Maps, Miles Harvey, 025.82 HAR  Historical Atlas of the American West, Derek Hayes, 978 HAY
Maphead, Ken Jennings, 912 JEN The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, Alberto Manguel & Gianni Guadalupi, 809.933 DIC Ride the Divide, DVD 796.62 RID The Longest Line on the Map, Eric Rutkow, 388.1 RUT How the States Got Their Shapes, Mark Stein, 973 STE Sealand, Dylan Taylor-Lehman, 990 TAY This Land Is My Land, Andy Warner & Sophie Louise Dam, GN WAR The Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner, LP 910.4 WEI *ª The Map that Changed the World, Simon Winchester, 550.92 WIN ª  Spirit Run, Noé Álvarez, 796.425 ALV *ª #NotYourPrincess, ed. Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale, YA 971 CHA Rebel Poet, Louis V. Clark III, 811 CLA Trickster, Matt Dembicki, YA GN TRI * Empire of Wild, Cherie Dimaline, F DIM * An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, 970.004 DUN *ª Original Local, Heid E. Erdrich, 341.597 ERD The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich, F ERD *ª Our History Is the Future, Nick Estes, 978.004 EST ª Crooked Hallelujah, Kelly Jo Ford, F FOR *  Give Me Some Truth, Eric L. Gansworth, YA F GAN Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, Joy Harjo, 811 HAR Why We Serve: Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces, 355 HAR Where the Dead Sit Talking, Brandon Hobson, F HOB The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones, F JON *ª Speaking of Indigenous Politics, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, 323.1197 SPE Indian Nations of Wisconsin, Patty Loew, 977.500497 LOE * Seventh Generation Earth Ethics: Native Voices of Wisconsin, Patty Loew, 977.5 LOE * Heart Berries, Terese Marie Mailhot, 362.19685 MAI *ª There There, Tommy Orange, F ORA *ª People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 970.004 PEO *  Girl Gone Missing, Marcie R. Rendon, M REN
Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse, SF ROA SIX-1 * The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, David Treuer, 970.004 TRE *ª Memories of Lac du Flambeau Elders, Leon Valliere, 977.523 VAL Cherokee America, Margaret Verble, F VER ª When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through, ed. Joy Harjo, 811 WHE |
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