| Title & Author | Reason for Reading | Read in 2020? |
| Barely Missing Everything by Matt Mendez | ALAN Workshop | |
| Birthday by Meredith Russo | ALAN Workshop | |
| Black Card by Chris L. Terry | Morgan | |
| The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman | ALAN Workshop Keynote Speaker | |
| The Deep by Rivers Solomon | Tee | Review |
| A Dream so Dark by L. L. McKinney | ||
| Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender | ||
| From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks | ||
| The Grace Year by Kim Liggett | Morgan | |
| The Guilded Ones by Namina Forna (May 2020) | Nic Stone’s Instastory | |
| I Hope You Get this Message by Farah Naz Rishi | Saw it in the bookstore | |
| I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal | ALAN Workshop | |
| The Infinite Noise by Lauren Shippen | ALAN Workshop | |
| Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany L. Jackson | ||
| Light It Up by Kekla Magoon | Companion to How It Went Down. | |
| Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain | Jeanette | |
| My Time Among the Whites by Jennine Capó Crucet | Lupita | |
| The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss | Liz | |
| Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles | https://www.instagram.com/p/B7jpQd_ABXt/ | |
| The Other Half of Happy by Rebecca Balcárcel | Met her at NCTE | |
| Other People’s English: Code-meshing, Code-switching and African American Literacy by Vershawn Ashanti Young, et. al. | It came up when I was working on my dissertation. | |
| Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner | Met him at NCTE – super nice. | |
| Rebel (Legend #4) by Marie Lu | Because Sam is my book buddy | |
| Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi | Because sci fi and powers. | |
| Running with Lions by Julian Winters | ||
| Some Places More than Others by Renée Watson | ||
| A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow | Nic Stone’s Insta story | |
| So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo | ||
| This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender | ||
| Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia | Met him at NCTE – super nice, also. | |
| The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert | 1. Because Brandy Colbert. 2. Because NCTE | |
| War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi | In my “other people purchased” on Amazon | |
| We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal | Book Riot |
