B3 Reading List

B3 Reading List

Our Top Reads: The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Pachinko, Sky Full of Elephants & The Spook Who Sat by the Door

2026 Reading List

Previous Reads

  • 2025

    Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

    By The Book by Jasmine GUILLORY

    Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico by Kathy Sosa, Ellen Riojas and Jennifer Speed

    My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

    Skin and Bones by Reneé Watson

    Matriarch: A Memoir by Tina Knowles

    White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad

    Finding Confidence in Conflict by Kwame Christian

    The Murmur of Bees by Sofía Segovia

    King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby

    Goddess Complex by Sanjena Sathian

  • 2024

    Manifest 7 Steps To Living Your Best Life by Roxie Nafousi

    Wings of Ebony by J. Elle

    The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

    There There by Tommy Orange

    You Owe You Ignite Your Power, Your Purpose and Your Why by Dr. Eric Thomas

    The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

    Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan

    Catalina by Karla Cornjeo Villavicencio

    Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Dr. Uché Blackstock

    Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

    Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell

  • 2023

    The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

    Cry Like A Man by Jason Wilson

    Black Ghost Empire by Kris Manjapra

    What It Means When A Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah

    The Spook Who Sat by the Door by Sam Greenlee

    Communion: The Female Search For Love by bell hooks

    An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz

    8 Rules of Love by Jay Shetty

    Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • 2022

    The Will to Change by bell hooks

    For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez

    The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins

    Notes of A Native Son by James Baldwin

"Embrace diversity. Unite— or be divided, robbed, ruled, killed by those who see you as prey. Embrace diversity or be destroyed."

-Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower