Book List September 2025 to August 2026

 

September - Solito by Javier Zamora (Hispanic Heritage)

October - Beautiful Country, a memoir by Qian Julie Wang (October 28 is National Immigrants Day)

November - Braiding Sweetgrass, nonfiction by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Native American Heritage Month) 

December - The Farming of Bones, historical fiction by Edwidge Danticat (Human Rights Day, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women)

January- Persepolis , a graphic novel and memoir by Marjane Satrapi (Muslim American Heritage Month)

February- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, nonfiction by Michelle Alexander (Black History Month)

March- The Joy Luck Club by, fiction by Amy Tan (International Women's Day - March 8)

April- Dearborn, a short story collection by Ghassan Zeineddine (Arab-American Heritage Month) 

May- Maus I, II  graphic novel by Art Spiegelman (Jewish-American Heritage Month) 

June - When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Cullors (LGBTQIA+ Pride)

July - A Disability History of the United States, nonfiction by Kim E. Nielsen (Disability Pride Month)

August - Twelve Years a Slave, 1853 memoir by Soloman Northup (International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition)