The Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B. Dubois, 1903, audio) essays: history, poetry, storytelling at its best
The Good Earth (Pearl Buck, 1931, audio) historical fiction; life of landowner in Chinese village
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret (Judy Blume, 1970, repeat, audio) fiction, 12-yr-old girl
Stephen Minister Training Manual Volume 1 (1978, repeat) nonfiction
Kindred (Octavia Butler, 1979, audio) historical fiction, time travel, slavery
Christian Caregiving: A Way of Life (Kenneth C. Haugk, 1984, repeat) nonfiction
Maus I (Art Spiegelman, 1986) graphic novel: bio of a Jewish Holocaust survivor
Beloved (Toni Morrison, 1987, audio) novel about a black family after Civil War
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Gregory McGuire, 1995, audio) fiction
Are You Out There, God? (Sister Mary Rose McGeady, 1996) abandoned children and Covenant House
The Islander (Cynthia Rylant, 1998) youth fiction: loneliness, love, death, dog, mermaid
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky, 1999, audio) youth coming of age novel
Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix (JK Rowling, 2003, audio) 5th in series; Dolores Umbridge
Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince (JK Rowling, 2005, audio) 6th in series; horcruxes, Dumbledore, Snape
Black America Series: Around Surry County (Evelyn Scales Thompson, 2005) nonfiction
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows (JK Rowling 2007, audio) 7th/final in series, horcruxes & deathly hallows
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot, 2010, audio) cells science with a human face
The Kitchen House (Kathleen Grissom, 2010, audio) white servant girl living with slaves, fiction
The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander, 2010, audio) mass incarceration, drug war, nonfiction
Between Shades of Gray (Ruta Sepetys, 2011, audio) novel, teen girl, WWII genocide of Baltic people
Transition (Chaz Bono, 2011, audio) autobiography
Quiet (Susan Cain, 2012, audio) nonfiction, introverts
A Nun on the Bus (Sister Simone Campbell, 2014) autobiography
The Hired Girl (Laura Amy Schlitz, 2015, audio) fiction set about 1911; class, Judaism, religion, teen girl
Accidental Saints (Nadia Bolz-Weber, 2015, audio) an inspirational & possibly offensive memoir
The Other Einstein (Marie Benedict, 2016, audio) historical fiction, Einstein’s wife
Frontier Grit (Marianne Monson, 2016, audio) biographies of 12 frontier women
Glory Over Everything (Kathleen Grissom, 2016, audio) sequel to The Kitchen House
Harry Potter & the Cursed Child (Jack Thorne, 2016) play script set 19 yrs after Rowling series
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter (Kate Clifford Larson, 2016, audio) biography
The Liberal Redneck Manifesto (Crowder, Forrester, Morgan, 2017, audio)
The Reporter Who Knew Too Much (Mark Shaw, 2016, audio) Dorothy Kilgallen biography, JFK
The Five Invitations (Frank Ostaseski, 2017) nonfiction, reframing death for better living
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Gail Honeyman, 2017, audio) fiction; childhood trauma, love
Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies . . . (Kate Bowler, 2018, audio) nonfiction, cancer, theology
Front Desk (Kelly Yang, 2018, audio) youth fiction, Chinese-American girl
Cherokee America (Margaret Verble, 2019, audio) fiction set post-Civil War
Rainbow Warrior: My Life in Color (Gilbert Baker, 2019, audio) autobio, history of rainbow flag
64 VW: A Memoir of Growing Up in Ararat, VA (Thomas D. Perry, 2019) entertaining memoir with a VW Beetle
The Only Woman in the Photo (2020, Kathleen Krull, audio) youth biography of Frances Perkins
Overground Railroad (Candacy Taylor, 2020, audio) traveling while black, green book, nonfiction
When & How to Use Mental Health Resources (Kenneth C. Haugk, 2020, repeat) nonfiction
The Black Church (Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2021, audio) nonfiction
Under the Influence: A Life-Saving Guide to . . . Alcoholism (Milam & Ketcham, 2021)
Surviving the White Gaze (Rebecca Carroll, 2021, audio) memoir of child of color raised by white family
The Lincoln Highway (Amor Towles, 2021, audio) Huck Finn style fiction set in 1954
Eleanor (David Michaelis, 2021, audio) comprehensive Eleanor Roosevelt biography / history
I Have Something To Tell You (Chasten Buttegieg, 2021, audio) autobiography
While Justice Sleeps (Stacey Abrams, 2021, audio) fiction thriller, Supreme Court Justice
No Cure for Being Human (Kate Bowler, 2021, audio) nonfiction, cancer
Wilmington’s Lie (David Zucchino, 2021, repeat) history, white supremacy, coup d’etat & massacre
How the Word Is Passed (Clint Smith, 2021, repeat) understanding our slave narratives
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days (Rebecca Donner, 2021, audio) bio of Amer woman in nazi resistance
Come Fly the World (Julia Cooke, 2021, audio) PanAm stewardesses: 1960s, Vietnam, sexism; nonfiction
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (Honoree Fanonne Jeffers. 2021, audio) historical fiction
The Light We Carry (Michelle Obama, 2022, audio) nonfiction, motivational, autobiographical
If God Is Love, Don’t Be a Jerk (John Pavlovitz, 2022, audio) nonfiction
The Myth of Normal (Gabor Mate, 2022, audio) nonfiction
Finding Me (Viola Davis, 2022, audio) autobiography
Crying in the Bathroom (Erika L. Sanchez. 2022, audio) memoir
Beyond the Wand (Tom Felton, 2022, audio) memoir of Draco Malfoy actor
Old Babes in the Woods (Margaret Atwood, 2023, audio) 15 short stories
Hello Beautiful (Ann Napolitano, 2023, audio) fiction: family, love, complexities, Little Women
Master Slave Husband Wife (Ilyon Woo, 2023, audio) true story of slave escape; detailed slave-era history
Spare (Prince Harry, 2023, audio) memoir; insight into lives of British royal family
The Covenant of Water (Abraham Verghese, 2023, audio) well-woven tale of 3 generations in India; fiction
Poverty By America (Matthew Desmond, 2023) poverty is intentional and can be eradicated; nonfiction