50 Book Challenge - 2027 American Black History

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50 Book Challenge - 2027 American Black History

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January: Old School
The Praise of Folly (1511)
Utopia (1516)
The Second Treatise of Civil Government (1689)
*A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
*A Discourse on Inequality (1755)
Treatise on Toleration (1763)
*Rights of Man (1791)
Where Do We Go From Here (January 18)

February: Black History Month
The New Jim Crow
Stamped from the Beginning
How the Word Is Passed
The Blood of Emmett Till
*Stony the Road
In Open Contempt
The 1619 Project
White Fragility
Slavery by Another Name
*Caste

March: Women's History Month
Beloved
The Color Purple
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
*The Lady and the Unicorn
Abortion Stories Before Roe vs Wade
Women Talking
*I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
*The Family Roe
*For Her Own Good
Hood Feminism

April: Dystopian
Brave New World
*1984
The Handmaid's Tale
The Facility
Fahrenheit 451
*A Clockwork Orange
*Lord of the Flies
*Island by Aldous Huxley

May: Asian Heritage Month and Mental Health Month
Go Ask Alice
Soldiers Don't Go Mad
The Bell Jar
City of Incurable Women
Desert Exile
In the Shadow of Liberty
Fight Club: A Novel
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (May 19)

June: PRIDE Month
Stonewall
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse
Female Husbands
Secret City
Queer Villians of Myth and Legend
*Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend
Queer Enlightenments
*Transgender Warriors
All The Young Men
*Homophobia: A History
The Intermediaries

July: Science and Social Justice
The Origin of Species
A Brief History of Time
The Satanic Verses
Dopesick
Better for All the World
Medical Apartheid
*The Right to Learn
The Color of Law
American Purgatory

August: Int. Peace Month / Anti-War
All Quiet on the Western Front
A Farewell to Arms
*One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
*Slaughterhouse-Five
*Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
*Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
*The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
*Maus I: My Father Bleeds History and *Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

September: Latino Heritage Month and Labor Day
*The Jungle
Out of This Furnace
The Worst Hard Time
*The Grapes of Wrath
*Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
*The Land of Open Graves by Jason DeLeon
*The Devil's Highway: A True Story
*Of Mice and Men

October: Banned Fiction
The Song of Achilles
The Orphan Collector
*Leaves of Grass
Year of Wonders
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
*Choke
No Country for Old Men
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
James

November: Native American Heritage Month
*The Plot Against Native Americans
The Rediscovery of America
Highway of Tears
*Medicine River
*Ruin Their Crops on the Ground

December:
*Born a Crime
*American Colonies
*Revolutionary Road
The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition
The Anarchy
*Blood in the Water
A Most Tolerant Little Town
The White Bonus