Black Canadian Authors

Frying plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta
The skin we’re in by Desmond Cole
Do better: Spiritual activism for fighting and healing from white supremacy by Rachel Ricketts
Angry queer Somali boy: A complicated memoir by Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali

Black Authors - Young Adult Fiction

“Hurricane Summer” by Asha Bromfield
“Charming as a Verb” by Ben Philippe
“Love is a Revolution” by Renee Watson
“When You Were Everything” by Ashley Woodfolk
“Some Other Now” by Sarah Everett
“Akata Woman” by Nnedi Okorafor
“And We Rise” by Erica Martin

Indigenous Authors

Call me Indian: From the trauma of residential school to becoming the NHL’s first treaty indigenous player by Fred Sasakmoose
Five little Indians by Michelle Good
Seven fallen feathers by Tanya Talaga
In search of April raintree by Beatrice Mosionier
From the ashes by Jesse Thistle
Braiding sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and teachings of plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
21 things you may not know about the Indian Act by Bob Joseph
A mind spread out on the ground by Alicia Elliot
All our relations by Tanya Talaga
This place: 150 years of retold by Kateri Akiwezie-Damm
7 generations: A plains Cree saga by David Alexander Robertson
Indian horse by Richard Wagamese

LGBTQ+ Authors

Ace: What Asexuality reveals about desire, society, and the meaning of sex by Angela Chen
We have always been here by Samra Habib
You exist too much by Zaina Arafat
Juliet takes a breath by Gabby Rivera
Fun Home: A family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
The colour purple by Alice Walker
Love is an ex-country by Randa Jarrar
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Wow, no thank you by Samantha Irby