Book List for White People

Ashley Perkins

02 Feb 2026 — 1 min read

This is a list of books ALL white people should read and none of the authors are white. To begin to deconstruct our racism, we must begin to learn from those who deal with such obstacles because white people do not experience racism. Thank you to the twitter and BlueSky communities for helping me build this list.

Starting place:

White women: Everything you already know about your own racism and how to do better (found here)
- By Regina Jackson and Sairo Rao
How to be an antiracist (found here)
- By Ibram X. Kendi
My grandmother's hands (found here)
- By Resmaa Menakem
So you want to talk about race (found here)
- By Ijeoma Oluo
Why I'm no longer talking to white people about racism (found here)
- By Renni Eddo Lodge
I'm tired of racism (found here)
- By Sharon Hurley Hall

Sociology/Theory/Feminism

Hood feminism (found here)
- By Mikki Kendall
Killing the Black body (found here)
- By Dorothy Roberts
I'm not yelling (found here)
- By Elizabeth Leiba
Eloquent rage: A Black feminist discovers her superpower (found here)
- By Brittney C. Cooper
White negroes: When cornrows were in vogue...and other thoughts on cultural appropriation (found here)
- By Lauren Michele Jackson
Belly of the beast (found here)
- By Da'Shaun L. Harrison
Border and rule (found here)
- By Harsha Walia
The will to change (found here)
- By bell hooks
South to America (found here)
- By Imani Perry
Against white feminism (found here)
- By Rafia Zakaria

History:

The 1619 project (found here)
- By Nikole Hannah-Jones
The warmth of other suns (found here)
- By Isabel Wilkerson
Malcolm X: A life of reinvention (found here)
- By Manning Marable

Racial Injustice:

The fire next time (found here)
- By James Baldwin
Between the world and me (found here)
- By Ta-Nehisi Coates
The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness (found here)
- By Michele Alexander
Assata (found here)
- By Assata Shakur
Things that make white people uncomfortable (found here)
- By Michael Bennett

Disability/Medicine

Black disability politics (found here)
- By Sami Schalk
Medical apartheid (found here)
- By Harriet Awashington
Autistic and Black (found here)
- By Kala Allen Omeiza
Fearing the Black body (found here)
- By Sabrina Strings

Fiction

Waiting to exhale (found here)
- By Terry McMillan
Invisible man (found here)
- By Ralph Ellison
The nickel boys (found here)
- By Colson Whitehead
Parable of the sower (found here)
- By Octavia Butler

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