Everyone loves a good book for the Summer.  Here are some lists to peruse.  Recommendations from our Social Justice Ministries including some fiction and nonfiction, a link to recommendations from the UUA Book store, links to lists of Banned Books. (noted by *)  So much to choose from! Who knows, you might come across one we could do as a book club reading in the Fall!

 UUA INSPIRIT BOOKSTORE New and forthcoming recommendations

QUEER MINISTRY recommendations with links

• Radical Belonging by Lindo Bacon
• Excluded, by Julia Serano
• y’all means all by various authors (there is a copy of this in the church library you can borrow it)
• Sweeter Voices Still by various authors
• Before we were Trans by Dr Kit Heyam
• *Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
• My Rainbow by DeShanna Neal, Trinity Neal
• Ho’onani: Hula Warrior, by Heather Gale
• This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel

RACIAL JUSTICE MINISTRY recommendations with links

• *Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, by Art Spiegelman
• White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better, by Regina Jackson and  Saira Rao
• Anti Racist Baby, Ibram X. Kendi
• Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Anti-Racism Starts With Me: Kids Coloring Book, by Kadeesha Bryant
• A Gadfly Report: Examining Unitarian Universalism’s Reactionary Fringe, by Dennis McCarty
• So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race, by Beverly Daniel Tatum
• The Selma Awakening: How the Civil Rights Movement Tested and Changed Unitarian Universalism, by Mark D. Morrison-Reed  Available to purchase in our church bookstore
• *All Boys Aren’t Blue, by George M. Johnson
• *Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern, J. Sakai

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE MINISTRY recommendations with links

• Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that starts in your Yard, by Doug Tallamy
• Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded – by Doug Tallamy
• We Are the ARK: Returning Our Gardens to Their True Nature Through Acts of Restorative Kindness , by Mary Reynolds
• The Garden Awakening: Designs to Nurture Our Land and Ourselves, by Mary Reynolds
• The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times (Global Icons Series) by Jane Goddall
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver – her year of her family’s effort to live  off the land with environmental notes by her husband.
• The Hidden Life of Trees; What They Feel, How they Communicate, by Peter Wohlleben
• Garbageology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash, by Edward Humes
• A Poison like no Other –  How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies, by Matt Simon
•  An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
• Truth to Power by Al Gore
• DRAWDOWN, Paul Hawken, Editor. Copies available for $20 in the UUCA bookstore
• Regeneration, Paul Hawken, Editor
• Rewiring America Go Electric: Your guide to the Inflation Reducation Act (free pdf download)
• Musings of an Energy Nerd: Toward an Energy-Efficient Home, by Martin Holliday
• Beginner’s Guide to Eco Renovation: Understand the Basics and the Best Questions to Ask by Judith Leary-Joyce
• Growing a Garden City by Jeremy N. Smith
• Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv

NONFICTION recommendations with links

• Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
• Women Rowing North by Mary Pipher
• Educated by Tara Westover
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail  by Bill Bryson
• *The Glass Castle: A Memoir, by Jeannette Walls
• *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou

FICTION recommendations with links

• *For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
• *The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
• Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• The Lord of The Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• *To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• *The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• *Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• *The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
• Bewilderment: A Novel  by Richard Powers
• *Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
• *A Wrinkle in Time,  by Madeleine L’Engle

*BANNED BOOKS LISTS: 

• Visit Amazon.com’s list of Banned Books
• Groundbreaking Children’s books that have been challenged or banned
• Visit Barns and Noble’s list of Banned Books
• Pen America’s lists of banned book along with advocacy and data around this censorship