required reading for perspective
created by muddyyy
last updated January, 2026
We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
Nemonte Nenquimo
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
My Dark Vanessa
Kate Elizabeth Russell
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris
Go as a River
Shelley Read
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Finding Me
Viola Davis
Betty
Tiffany McDaniel
Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar
Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg
Beloved
Toni Morrison
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
this list has not a one straight white man author. whoopsie.
Ive only read one(between the world and me) and it was a five star read for me! Very excited to reference this list for books!
Yay! Theyâre genuinely all so good and offer something different.
Š 2025 Pagebound
