No Gods, No Masters, No Crappy Booklists

We’re not fundamentalists but reading is still fundamental. Start with these lists and author collections:

• Kids Indie Next List from Indiebound
• American Indians In Children’s Literature [also an EXCELLENT resource for double-checking if your favorite books about Natives is actually good]
• Books by Anton Treuer
• Books by Julia Rothman
• Banned books!
• Sex Ed books by Cory Silverberg
• Growing Toward Liberation’s Bookshop [you can also find a link to her fantastic and free units in my Curriculum Crypt]
• Here Wee Read
• History Smashers Series
• Inclusive Books for Children
• Instead of Hillbilly Elegy [good books on Appalachia]
• Little Pasifika Readers
• Kathy Ceceri’s Maker Books
• Mia Mayhem [for superhero fans]
• Oyate
• Electric Literature
• Punk-Ass Book Jockey [awesome diverse YA lists from BIPOC librarian]
• Rick Riordan Presents [tired of Greek mythology and want to find YA that represents other cultures? Riordan intros, edits, and promotes these for a small fee.]
• Solidarity Against Apartheid
• The Mombian Database of LGBTQ Family Books
• The Story Orchestra
• Indigenous Reads Rising
• Social Justice Books
• Books by Gregg Dreise
• Books by David G. McAfee [great for explaining religions and other aspects of theology]
• Books by Rachel Ignotofsky

Spend that almighty dollar at these wicked bookstores [some of them have great booklists and collections too]:

• Fable Hollow
• ATCG Books and Comics [Indigenous comics shop]
• If you’re a homeschooler you can get an educators account at Vooks, a wonderful animated read-aloud database.
• Gloo Books
• Lee & Low Books
• Native Books Hawaii
• Paperbacks & Frybread
• Red Comet Press
• Strong Nations
• Bookshop.org [you can support the bookstore of your choice with your purchases here]
• Thriftbooks [buy used, save the planet, and if you can prove you’re a homeschooler you get an extra book perk]

Coming next: my own lists. Come back soon.

If you looked at this list, saw something and thought “uh nah, that author?! Doesn’t this biddy know that author is a creep?” Let me know. I can check for monsters under the bed.