Books:

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illustrator)
• All the Shah’s Men: an American Coup and the Roots of the Middle East by Stephen Kinzer
• America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
• Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin G. Boyle
• Arranged Marriage by Chitra Divakaruni
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
• The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell by W. Kamau Bell
• Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Any Chua
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• Behind the Beautiful Forever: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
• Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney
• Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips
• Blood from a Stone by Donna Leon
• The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
• Braiding Sweetness by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska
• Brother I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
• Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
• Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
• Caste by Isabel Wilerson
• Children of a Lesser God play by Mark Howard Medoff
• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

• Circle of Stones by Joan Dahr Lambert
• The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by Bucks County author James McBride
• The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
• Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
• The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime, by Mark Haddon
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• Day After Night by Anita Daimant
• Digging to America by Anne Tyler
• Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
• Dreams from My Father by Barak Obama
• 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
• Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
• The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
• Fabulous Small Jews by Joseph Epstein
• Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
• Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
• The Glass Castle, a Memoir by Jeanette Walls
• Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
• Goat: A Memoir by Brad Land
• The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
• Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist
• Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunities for Women Worldwide by Sheryl Wu Dunn and Nickolas D. Kristof
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• The Help by Katherine Stockett
• Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
• How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
• The Human Stain by Philip Roth
• The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
• I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck

• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaaatje
• The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson
• The Invention of Wings by Su Monk Kidd
• Ireland by Frank Delaney
• The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
• Kaffir Boy: the True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane
• The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• Lamb by Christopher Moore
• Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda by Rosamond Halsey Carr
• The Last Flight of Poxl West by Daniel Torday
• The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdich
• The Late Homecomer by Kao Kalia Yang
• Left to Tell by Immaculée Ilibagiza
• The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer
• The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
• Long Way Gone, A: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
• Look Me in the Eye, My Life with Aspergers by John Elder Robson
• Lottery by Patricia Wood
• Loving Day by Mat Johnson
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
• Marmee and Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother by Eva Marie Plante
• Maus: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
• Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
• Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride
• Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracey Kidder
• My Broken Language by Quiara Alegría Hudes
• My Life in France by Julia Child
• My Vanishing Countryby Bakari Sellers

• The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri
• NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman
• Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
• Night Train by Clyde Edgerton
• The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
• Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder by Kent Nerburn
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman
• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
• The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
• A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
• The Plot against America by Philip Roth
• Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America by Stephen G. Bloom.
• Price of a Child by Lorene Carey
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
• Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
• Riding the Bus with My Sister: a True Life Journey by Rachel Simon
• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
• Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
• Searching for Hassan: A Journey to the Heart of Iran by Terence Ward
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
• Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
• Shuggie Bainby Douglas Stuart
• Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran Xue
• Sleeping Arrangements, a Memoir by Laura Shaine Cunningham
• Small Island: A Novel by Andrea Levy

• The Soloist by Steve Lopez
• The Space Between Us by Thrity Umnigar
• Spartacus by Howard Fast
• Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadimann.
• A Step from Heaven by An Na
• Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
• The Story of a Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brent
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Zeale Hurston
• There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Koltowitz
• There, There by Tommy Orange
• Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen
• 36 Views of Mount Fuji by Cathy Davidson
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• Three Junes by Julia Glass
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Tortilla Curtain by T C Boyle
• Two Old Women by Kao Kalia Yang
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
• The Warmth of other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nahisi Coates
• What the Eyes Don’t See by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiama
• The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
• Zoya’s Story: An Afghan Woman’s Struggle for Freedom by Zoya, et al

Films:

• Belle – directed by Amma Asante
• Bend It Like Beckham – directed by Gurinder Chadha
• The Cakemaker
• Crash – directed by Paul Haggis
• A Day Without A Mexican: There Goes the Neighborhood directed by Sergio Arau
• Food, Inc. – directed by Robert Kenner
• Fresa y Chocolate – directed by Juan Carlos Tabío
• The Good Lie directed by Philippe Falardeau
• In the Heights directed by Jon M. Chu
• Iron Jawed Angels – directed by Katja von Garnier
• Maria Full of Grace – written and directed by Joshua Marston
• The Milagro Beanfield War – directed by Robert Redford
• Monsoon Wedding – directed by Mira Nair
• Nanette by Hannah Gadsby
• The Rape of Europa – directed by Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, & Nicole Newnham
• Real Women Have Curves – directed by Patricia Cardoso
• Smoke Signals – directed by Chris Eyre
• Sweet Land – directed by Ali Selim
• 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama – directed by Rick Ray
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Travellers and Magicians – directed by Khyentse Norbu
• The White Balloon – directed by Jafar Panahi