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Readers' Advisory: POC Characters: Non-Fiction

Fiction, Non-Fiction, E-Books, Audiobooks and Graphic Novels that feature People of Color.

Non-Fiction in Print

Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari; Eric. Klinenberg
Call Number: HQ801 .A595 2015
ISBN: 9781594206276
Publication Date: 2015-06-16
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
Call Number: KF8745.S67 A3 2014
ISBN: 9780345804839
Publication Date: 2014-01-07
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: E185.61 .K358 2016
ISBN: 9781568584638
Publication Date: 2016-04-12
Undocumented by Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Call Number: JV6456 .P33 2015
ISBN: 9781594206528
Publication Date: 2015-07-28
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Call Number: CT1828.C478 A3 1992
ISBN: 0385425473
Publication Date: 1992-10-03
The Wrong End of the Table by Ayser Salman; Reza Aslan (Foreword by)
Call Number: E184.A65 S35 2019
ISBN: 9781510742079
Publication Date: 2019-03-05

Non-Fiction as Audio

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
ISBN: 9781538408056
Publication Date: 2017
Bits and Pieces by Whoopi Goldberg
ISBN: 9798200918522
Publication Date: 2024
Code Talker by Chester Nez; Judith Schiess Avila; David Colacci (Narrated by)
ISBN: 9781452624983
Publication Date: 2011-12-12
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
ISBN: 9780593153901
Publication Date: 2021
Everything's Trash, But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson; forward by Ilana Glazer
ISBN: 9780525643357
Publication Date: 2018
How to American by Jimmy O. Yang (Read by); Mike Judge (Foreword by, Read by)
ISBN: 9781478998969
Publication Date: 2018-03-13
I'm Judging You by Luvvie Ajayi
ISBN: 9781427283672
Publication Date: 2016
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; Laural Merlington (Narrated by)
ISBN: 9781494527051
Publication Date: 2014-11-18

Non-Fiction as eBook

The Black Angels by Maria Smilios
ISBN: 9780593544938
Publication Date: 2023-09-19
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
ISBN: 9781453274149
Publication Date: 2012-10-23
Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
ISBN: 9781544512266
Publication Date: 2018
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis; Cornel West (Foreword by); Frank Barat (Editor)
ISBN: 9781608465651
Publication Date: 2016-01-25
I Can't Make This Up by Kevin Hart; Neil Strauss (As told to)
ISBN: 9781501155581
Publication Date: 2017-06-06
Is Everyone Hanging Out with Me? by Mindy Kaling
ISBN: 9780307886286
Publication Date: 2011
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
ISBN: 9781684067510
Publication Date: 2019
Walk through Walls by Marina Abramovic
ISBN: 9781101905050
Publication Date: 2016