The following books have been recommended by many people in the journey to better understanding anti-racism work.
We've tried to link through to bookshops owned by people of colour, and where we haven't been able to find the books in these shops, we've linked to hive.co.uk, which supports local and independant bookstores.
 


Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

by Reni Eddo Lodge


The New Jim Crow

by Michelle Alexander


This Book is Anti-Racist

by Tiffany Jewell


How To Be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi


So You Want To Talk About Race

by Ijeoma Oluo


Me and White Supremacy

by Layla F Saad


Women, Race & Class

by Angela Y. Davis


Notes of a Native Son

by James Baldwin


Why Are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria

by Beverly Daniel Tatum


Sister Outsider

by Audre Lorde


Natives

by Akala


White Rage

by Carol Anderson


White Rage

by Carol Anderson


White Fragility

by Robin DiAngelo


Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

by Glory Edim


We Were 8 Years in Power

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Black and British: A Forgotten History

by David Olusoga


Girl, Woman, Other

by Bernadine Evaristo


The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain

by Beverly Bryan, Stella Dadzie, & Suzanne Scafe, Lola Okolosie


The Good Immigrant

Edited by Nikesh Shukla


I Will Not Be Erased

by gal-dem


Brit(ish)

by Afua Hirsch

I am Your Sister

Edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnetta Betsch Cole & Beverly Guy-Sheftall

I am Your Sister

Edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnetta Betsch Cole & Beverly Guy-Sheftall

The Other Black Girl

by Zakia Dalila Harris

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Colour

by Ruby Hamad

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot

by Mikki Kendall

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem

by Amanda Gorman

Mixed/Other: Explorations of Multiraciality in Modern Britain

by Natalie Morris