Reading list

Keep up your lifelong (un)learning with this list of non fiction, fiction, articles, documentaries and videos, covering a variety of subjects within Diversity, Equity and Inclusion .

 
 

Psychology of Bias

Non-Fiction:

Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

The Person You Mean to Be, Dolly Chugh

Strangers to Ourselves, Timothy D. Wilson 

Blind Spot, Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald

Blink, Malcom Gladwell

Sway, Pragya Agarwal

Factfulness, Hans Rosling

Mistakes Were Made (but not by me), Carol Tavris and Eliot Aronson

Public Opinion, Walter Lippmann

Biased, Dr Jennifer Eberhardt (also in ‘Antiracism’)

DEI in the Workplace

Non-Fiction:

Belonging: The Key to Transforming and Maintaining Diversity, Inclusion and Equity at Work, Sue Unerman, Kathryn Jacob and Mark Edwards

Rebel Ideas, Matthew Syed

The Loudest Duck, Laura Liswood

Never Go With Your Gut, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky

Belonging at Work, Rhodes Perry

The Diversity Advantage, Ruchika Tulshyan

What Works, Iris Bohnet

We Can’t Talk about That at Work!: How to Talk about Race, Religion, Politics, and Other Polarizing Topics, Mary-Frances Winters

Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions, Tiffany Jana and Michael Baran

Feminism

Non-Fiction:

Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg

Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay

Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde

Invisible Women, Caroline Criado Perez

A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Wolf

The Second Sex, Simone De Bouvoir

Misogyny: The World’s Oldest Prejudice, Jack Holland

ain’t i a woman, bell hooks (also in ‘Antiracism’)

feminism is for everybody, bell hooks

What Works, Iris Bohnet

Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit

The Diversity Advantage, Ruchika Tulshyan

The Gendered Brain, Gina Rippon

The Descent of Man, Grayson Perry

We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie

Fiction:

Educated, Tara Westover

Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

Orlando, Virginia Wolf

The Bell Jar, Silvia Plath

The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

Queenie, Candice Cartie-Williams

The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Wayward Girls & Wicked Women, Angela Carter

The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler

LGBTQIA+

Non-Fiction:

Beyond the Gender Binary, Alok Vaid-Menon

The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle, Lillian Faderman

Queer, There, and Everywhere, Sarah Prage

Good as You, Paul Flynn (2018)

We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer liberation, Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown (2019)

The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault

Queer Intentions – A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture, Amelia Abraham

How to Survive a Plague – The story of how activists and scientists tamed AIDS, David France

How We Fight for Our Lives, Saeed Jones (2020)

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir, Samra Habib

Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows, Christine Burns

Fiction:

Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo

Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin

Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters

Yes, You Are Trans Enough, Mia Violet

Not Just a Tomboy, Caspar J. Baldwin

 

Documentaries/Films:

Disclosure – Netflix

State of Pride, Youtube 

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, Netflix

Kiki, Amazon Prime, Hulu 

It’s a Sin, BBC

How to Survive a Plague, David France, Amazon Prime

Paris is Burning, Netflix

Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community, iTunes

 

Antiracism

Non-Fiction:

Biased, Dr Jennifer Eberhardt

Why I’m not Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge

How to Argue with a Racist, Adam Rutherford

Brit(ish): On Race Identity and Belonging, Afua Hirsch

Natives, Akala

White Fragility, Robin Diangelo

How to be an Antiracist, Iberam X. Kendi

ain’t i a woman, bell hooks (also in ‘Ffeminism)

Antiracist Ally, Sophie Williams

Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, Dr. Brittney Cooper

Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, Andrea J. Ritchie

Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson

Me and White Supremacy, Layla F. Saad

Raising Our Hands, Jenna Arnold

Redefining Realness, Janet Mock 

Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde

So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo

Mediocre, Ijeoma Oluo

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander

It’s Not About the Burka, Mariam Khan (also in ‘Antiracism’)

Fiction:

Beloved, Toni Morrison

The Color Purple, Alice Walker

I Know Why The Caged Birds Sings, Maya Angelou (Autobiography)

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonSmall Island, Andrea Levy

Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo (also in ‘Feminism’ and ‘LGBTQIA’)

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

White Teeth, Zadie Smith

The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas

The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan

Noughts and Crosses, Malorie Blackman

Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi 

Queenie, Candice Cartie-Williams

Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin (also in ‘LGBTQIA’)

 

Documentaries/Films:

13th, Ava DuVernay – Netflix

The Hate You Give – Available to rent

La Haine – Available to rent

Persepolis – Available to rent

Surviving R. Kelly – Netflix

Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent

Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix

Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent

I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy

Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent

When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

Disability

Non-Fiction:

Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Body, Rebekah Taussig

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From The Twenty-First Century Edited, Alice Wong

Say Hello, Carly Findlay

The Pretty One, Keah Brown

Dear Parents, Micheline Mason

What The **** Is Normal?, Francesca Martinez

The World I Fell Out Of, Melanie Reid

Stigma, Erving Goffman

Pride Against Prejudice: Transforming Attitudes to Disability: A Personal Politics of Disability, Jenny Morris

Telling Sexual Stories, Ken Plummer

Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People (Paperback), Frances Ryan 

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently (Paperback), Steve Silberman 

Living with Dyspraxia, Victoria Biggs

Camouflage, Sarah Bargiela

The World I Live In, Helen Keller

The War On Disabled People, Ellen Clifford

Fiction:

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon

Wonder, R. J. Palacio

Geek Love, Katherine Dunn

Mean Little Deaf Queer, Terry Galloway

Planet of the Blind, Stephen Kussisto

The Still Point Of The Turning World, Emily Rapp

Good Kings Bad Kings, Susan R. Nussbaum

Get A Life, Chloe Brown, Talia Hibbert

 

Documentaries/Films:

Crip Camp – Netflix

When I Walk, Jason DaSilva

Able, Amazon Prime

Asperger’s Are Us, Netflix

Autism: The Musical

I Can’t Do This But; I Can Do That, HBO

Darius Goes West, Amazon

Emmanuel’s Gift, Lisa Lax, Nancy Stern, Prime Vide

Religion

Non-Fiction:

Managing Religious Diversity in the Workplace: Examples from Around the World , Stefan Gröschl & Regine Bendl

Urban Secularism - Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe, Julia Martínez-Ariño

It’s Not About the Burka, Mariam Khan (also in ‘Antiracism’)

African religions : a very short introduction, Jacob K Olupona

Theology : a very short introduction, Ford, David F

Who Believes What?, Anna Wills; Nora Tomm (Illustrator)

God and Uncle Sam, Michael Snape

Story of the Qur'AnI, Ingrid Mattson

Politics of Religious Freedom, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan; Elizabeth Shakman Hurd; Saba Mahmood; Peter G. Danchin

Muslims and the Making of America, Amir Hussain

Non-Fiction (continued):

An Introduction to Buddhism, Peter Harvey

Understanding Sport As a Religious Phenomenon, Eric Bain-Selbo; D. Gregory

Inuit Shamanism and Christianity: Transitions and Transformations in the Twentieth Century, Frederic B. Laugrand; Jarich G. Oosten

The Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson

A History of the Bible, John Barton

An Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the Venerable Bede

The Church of the East, Christoph Baumer

The Lotus Sutra, Tsugunari Kubo and Akira Yuyama (traslators)

Hasan al-Banna, Gudrun Kraemer

Class

Non-Fiction:

Chavs, Owen Jones

Posh Boys, Robert Verkaik

Women, Race & Class, Angela Y. Davis

Why You Won't Get Rich, Robert Verkaik

Engines of Privilege, David Kynaston

The Meritocracy Trap, Daniel Markovits

Snakes and Ladders: The great British social mobility myth, Professor Selina Todd 

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg

The Expendables: how the middle class got screwed by globalisation, Jeff Rubin

Non-Fiction (continued):

Entitled: A Critical History of the British Aristocracy, Chris Bryant 

Watching the English, Kate Fox

If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America, Jon Sopel 

The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being, Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett

Caste: The International Bestseller, Isabel Wilkerson 

Age

Non-Fiction:

This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, Ashton Applewhite

Ending Ageism or How Not to Shoot Old People, Margaret Morganroth Gullette

Disrupt Aging: A Bold New Path to Living Your Best Life at Every Age, Jo Ann Jenkins 

Ageism: Stereotyping and Prejudice Against Older Persons, Todd Nelson

No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History, Gail Collins

Millennials vs. Boomers: Listen, Learn, and Succeed Together, Eric Harvey, Silvana Clark

Non-Fiction (continued):

Kids These Days, Human Capital and the Making of Millennials, Malcolm Harris

Can’t Even, Anne Helen Petersen

Age Discrimination: Ageism in Employment and Service Provision, Malcolm Sargeant

Age Discrimination: An Historical and Contemporary Analysis, John Macnicol

I'm Not Done: It's Time to Talk about Ageism in the Workplace, Patti Temple Rocks

The End Game, Corey M. Abramson

Ageism at Work: Deconstructing Age and Gender in the Discriminating Labour Market, Ellie Berger

Parenthood

Non-Fiction:

She's Back: Your Guide to Returning to Work, Deb Khan and Lisa Unwin

The Comeback: How Today’s Moms Reenter the Workplace Successfully, Cheryl Casone

Becoming, Michelle Obama

Double Lives by Helen McCarthy 

Non-Fiction (continued):

Pregnant Then Screwed: The Truth About the Motherhood Penalty and How to Fix It, Joeli Brearley 

Equally Shared Parenting: Rewriting the Rules for a New Generation of Parents, Marc Vachon, Amy Vachon