Liberation is LIT

Liberation is LIT is a place for Radical Readers to find their voice and make a difference. Stories have the power to change the world, but we have to do more than get lost in the books. Books serve as a call to action.

White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
Honey and Spice: A Reese's Book Club Pick
These Impossible Things
The Hacienda
Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America
Take My Hand
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
The Weight of Blood
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
Brown Enough: True Stories about Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America
Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future
Our Missing Hearts
D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding (Original)
Love Radio
Before I Let Go
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
All My Rage
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
Quietly Hostile: Essays
Queenie
Your Driver Is Waiting
In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So Post-Racial America
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
This Bridge Called My Back, Fortieth Anniversary Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Anniversary)
Women, Power, and Rape Culture: The Politics and Policy of Underrepresentation
Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir
Fruit Punch: A Memoir
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Women, Race, & Class
Mademoiselle Revolution
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
All My Rage
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
Queenie
Your Driver Is Waiting
In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So Post-Racial America
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
Skin of the Sea
Women, Race, & Class
Memphis
Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
Maame: A Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
The Vanishing Half
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Your Driver Is Waiting
In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So Post-Racial America
Poverty, by America
Women, Power, and Rape Culture: The Politics and Policy of Underrepresentation
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
Women, Race, & Class
Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety
Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Our Missing Hearts
White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Before I Let Go
Finding Me: An Oprah's Book Club Pick
Homegoing
Sula
An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club)
Parable of the Sower
Take My Hand
If Beale Street Could Talk
Last Summer on State Street
Your Driver Is Waiting
Black and Queer on Campus
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Mademoiselle Revolution
Ace Voices: What It Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace
D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding (Original)
I Wish You All the Best
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
Boys Come First
The Book of Non-Binary Joy: Embracing the Power of You
Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad
The Romantic Agenda
Unprotected: A Memoir
The Death of Vivek Oji
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
No More Police: A Case for Abolition
The Nickel Boys
We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Training School for Negro Girls
An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club)
Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Allegedly
Monster
This Is My America
Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
Queenie
In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So Post-Racial America
Fruit Punch: A Memoir
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Memphis
Maame: A Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining
Take My Hand
Before I Let Go
Finding Me: An Oprah's Book Club Pick
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service
Beloved
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
Mama Day
Women, Race, & Class
Parable of the Sower
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
The Color Purple
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Linden Hills
Coffee Will Make You Black
Another Brooklyn
A Mercy
Love
Jazz
Tar Baby
Sula
All My Rage
We Are All So Good at Smiling
The Weight of Blood
Bitter
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
White Smoke
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
American Street
Training School for Negro Girls
Ghost Boys
Grown
The Sun Is Also a Star
Concrete Rose: A Printz Honor Winner
On the Come Up
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America