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March 2025 – A book about someone with a marginalized identity

Here are some title suggestions based on a book about someone with a marginalized identity to help you get started with the March challenge!

Suggested TitlesCall Number
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieYA/ALEXIE
Americanah by Ngozdi AdichieFIC/ADICHIE
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline WoodsonFIC/WOODSON
The Bear and The Nightingale by Katherine ArdenFANTAST/ARDEN
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates305.896/COA
Blood Sisters by Vanessa LillieFIC/LILLIE
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay814.6/GAY
Born a Crime: Stories from South Africa by Trevor NoahB/NOAH
YA B/NOAH
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazFIC/DIAZ
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline WoodsonYA B/WOODSON
J B/WOODSON
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame AdjeiFIC/ADJEI
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein305.8009/ROTHSTEIN
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerFIC/WALKER
The Color of Water by James McBride974.7/MCB
YA974.6/MCB
Coming Home by Brittney GrinerB/GRINER
The coyotes of Carthage by Steven WrightFIC/WRIGHT
A Curious Incident of the dog in the Night by Mark HaddonFIC/HADDON
YA/HADDON
Drama by Raina TelgameierJ GRAPHIC/TELGAMEIER
YA/GRAPHIC/ELEGAMEIER
El Deafo by Cece BellJ GRAPHIC/BELL
YA GRAPHIC/BELL
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow RowellYA/ROWELL
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gal HoneymanFIC/HONEYMAN
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste NgFIC/NG
Exit West by Mohsin HamidFIC/HAMID
The Familiar by Leigh BardugoFANTASY/BARDUGO
LP/BARDUGO
Fangirl by Rainbow RowellYA GRAPHIC/ROWELL
The Far Field by Madhuri JijayFIC/JIJAY
The Fault in our Stars by John GreenYA/GREEN
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin305.896/BAL
The First Rule of Punk by Cela C. PerezJ/PEREZ
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirFANTASY/MUIR
The Hate U Give by Angie ThomasYA/THO
YA PLAYAWAY/THOMAS
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBrideFIC/MCBRIDE
LP/MCBRIDE
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly510.92/SHET
J510.21/SHE
Homegoing by Yaa GyasiFIC/GYASI
Horse by Geraldine BrooksFIC/BROOKS
LP/BROOKS
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto UrreaFIC/URREA
The House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosFIC/CISNEROS
LP/CISNEROS
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie CruzFIC/CRUZ
I Know Why Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouB/ANGELOU
YA B/ANGELOU
Interview with the Vampire by Anne RiceFANTASY/RICE
Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonFIC/ELLISON
Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniFIC/HOSSEINI
Lies my Teacher Told Me by James Loewen973/LOEW
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgFIC/NG
BOCD/NG
Looking for Alaska by John GreenYA/GREEN
The Maid by Nita ProseMYSTERY/PROSE
LP/PROSE
March Book One by John LewisGRAPHIC/LEWIS
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse AndrewsYA/ANDREWS
Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesFIC/EUGENIDES
The Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriFIC/LAHIRI
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander364.6/ALEXANDER
The New Kid by Jerry CraftJ GRAPHIC/CRAFT
YA GRAPHIC/CRAFT
On the Come up by Angie ThomasYA/THOMAS
One Last Stop by Casey McQuistonFIC/MCQUISTON
One Two Three by Laurie FrankelFIC/FRANKEL
LP/FRANKEL
Pachinko by Min Jin LeeFIC/LEE
BOCD/LEE
Paper Towns by John GreenYA/GREEN
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyYA/CHBOSKY
Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiGRAPHIC/SATRAPI
A Piece of the World by Christina Baker KlineFIC/KLINE
The Plague of Doves by Louise ErdrichFIC/ERDRICH
Pride by Ibi ZoboiYA/ZOBOI
The Race to be Myself by Caster SemenyaB/SEMENYA
Roller Girl by Victoria JamiesonJ GRAPHIC/JAMIESON
The Sentence by Louise ErdrichFIC/ERDRICH
Six of Crows by Leigh BardugoYA/BARDUGO
Sold by Patricia McCormickYA/MCCORMICK
Speak by Laurie Halse AndersonYA/ANDERSON
YA GRAPHIC/ANDERSON
Stuff White People Like by Christian Lander817.6/LAN
Sula by Toni MorrisonFIC/MORRISON
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh NguyenFIC/NGUYEN
The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadFIC/WHITEHEAD
BOCD/WHITEHEAD
The Vanishing Half by Brit BennettLP/BENNETT
There There by Tommy OrangeFIC/ORANGE
LP/ORANGE
Thirsty Mermaids by Kat LeyhGRAPHIC/LEYH
This Other Eden by Paul HardingFIC/HARDING
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny HanYA/HAN
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemoreYA/MCLEMORE
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John GreenYA/GREEN
Wonder by R.J. PalacioJ/PALACIO
J BOCD/PALACIO
Suggested Titles from the Consortium
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
Awesome Asian Americans by Phil Amara & Chin Oliver
Birding While Indian by Thomas Gannon
Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Penelope Bagieu
Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore
A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell
Deceit and Other Possibilities by Vanessa Hua
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
The Groom will Keep his Name by Matt Ortile
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi
How Does that Make You Feel, Magda Ecklun by Anna Montagu
I Love You so Mochi by Sarah Kuhn
Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love
Mean by Myriam Gurba
Mexican Whiteboy by Matt de la Pena
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
The New Life by Tom Crewe
One Hundred Days by Alice Pung
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins Valdez
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif
Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Amiah

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