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Omaha Reading Challenge 2024: Read a book about or featuring social justice

The Omaha Public Library (OPL) Reading Challenge is back! OPL staff have created a series of reading challenges to push you outside of your reading comfort zone and into new literary realms. This list contains titles about or featuring social justice. For more details on the reading challenge go to omahalibrary.org/reading-challenge.

25 items

  • The Viral Underclass

    the Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

    Thrasher, Steven W.,
    BookNew York : Celadon Books, 2022. — 362.1962 Thrasher 2022
  • BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — MYSTERY Jaswal 2023
  • BookNew York : Flatiron Books, 2023. — FICTION Cosby 2023
  • BookMinneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2023] — FICTION Waidner 2021
  • BookNew York : Bloomsbury USA, 2011. — FICTION Ward 2011
  • BookNew York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2019] — FICTION Reid 2019
  • Book[New York] : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015] — FICTION Lee 2015
  • BookChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018. — FICTION Jones 2018
  • BookNew York, NY : Mariner Books, [2023] — FICTION Verble 2023
  • Seen and Unseen

    Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice

    Hill, Marc Lamont,
    BookNew York, NY : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2022. — 303.372 Hill 2022
  • Just Mercy

    a Story of Justice and Redemption

    Stevenson, Bryan,
    BookNew York : Spiegel & Grau, [2014] — B Stevenson 2014
  • Unbound

    My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

    Burke, Tarana,
    BookNew York : Flatiron Books, 2021. — B Burke 2021
  • Revolution in Our Time

    the Black Panther Party's Promise to the People

    Magoon, Kekla,
    BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press , 2021. — 323.1196 Magoon 2021
  • Unapologetic

    a Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements

    Carruthers, Charlene A., 1985-
    BookBoston, MA : Beacon Press, [2018] — 305.48 Carruthe 2018