This is my non-exhaustive reading recommendation list for white folks. In no particular order:

• Men We Reaped (2013) by Jesmyn Ward
• Native Son (1952) by Richard Wright
• Passing (1929) by Nella Larsen
• Invisible Man (1940) by Ralph Ellison
• Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (2018)* by Robin DiAngelo
• An American Marriage (2018) by Tayari Jones
• The Water Dancer (2019) by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• We Need New Names (2013) by NoViolet Bulawayo
• The Nickel Boys (2019) by Colson Whitehead
• The Residue Years (2013) by Mitchell S. Jackson
• Becoming (2018) by Michelle Obama
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) by Frederick Douglass
• Erasure (2001)* by Percival Everett
• The Sellout (2015) by Paul Beatty
• How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (2013) by Kiese Laymon

*-not yet read; it’s near the top of my to-read list