From “World of Wonders: A Spirituality of Reading” by Jeff Crosby
15 Recommended Books
The list of books below reflects insight from a diverse set of authors and on a variety of topics and geographic contexts. Let this list simply be a start (or an encouragement to continue) in your journey of reading perspectives that may be very different from your own, or subject matter that you’ve yet to engage with.
- Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, by Randy Colbert
- Reading Black Books: How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More Whole and Just, by Claude Atcho
- Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship, by Michelle Kuo
- Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle, by Dante Stewart
- How Far to the Promised Land, by Esau McCaulley
- Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson
- Night, by Elie Wiesel
- The Race Wise Family, by Helen Lee and Michelle Ami Reyes
- One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World, by Michael Frank
- The Violence of Love, by Oscar Tomero
- Meditations of the Heart, by Howard Thurman
- The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria, by Alia Malek
- The Book of Forgiving, by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree, by James Cone
- Birmingham Revolution: Martin Luther King’s Epic Challenge to the Church, by Edward Gilbreath