Ms. Dalia's bucket list of books to read
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- Infidel: My Life by Ayaan Hirshi Ali
- Nomad: From Islam to America by Ayaan Hirshi Ali
- The Caged Virgin by Ayaan Hirshi Ali
- An Ishmael of Syria by Asaad Al Mohammad
- The Scent of Jasmine: Coming of Age in Jerusalem and Damascus by Anan Ameri
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan
- Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
- Emma by Jane Austen
- At the Existential Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell
- Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
- Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
- I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin
- Confession of a Buddhist Atheist by Stephen Batchelor
- Stolen Girls Survivors of Boko Haram Tell Their Story by Wolfgang Bauer
- Jane Eyre's Sisters: How Women Live and Write the Heroine's Story by Jody Gentian Bower
- The Dresdan Files by Jim Butcher
- Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon
- The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll
- Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma by Ana Castillo
- Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky
- Gay Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Kate Christie
- We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy
- The Flat World and Education by Linda Darling-Hammond
- Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? by Karen Dawisha
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Middlemarch by George Elliot
- A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Melissa Fleming
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- The Politics of Education: Culture, Power and Liberation by Paulo Freire
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi
- The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
- Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Dune by George Herbert
- The Knowledge Deficit by E.D. Hirsch Jr.
- Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
- The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors by Dan Jones
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
- The Bone People by Keri Hulme
- Incarnations: A History of India in 50 Lives by Sunil Khilnani
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
- Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up A Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
- Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- A Problem from Hell: American and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
- All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
- Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Casual Vacancy by J. K.Rowling
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
- Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
- Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy
- The Algebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy
- Things That Can and Cannot Be Said by Arundhati Roy
- Broken Republic: Three Essays by Arundhati Roy
- The Cost of Living by Arundhati Roy
- The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools? by Dale Russakoff
- Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David Shipler
- Reading the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
- Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us by Claude M. Steele
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Sophie's Choice by William Styron
- "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity by Daniel Beverly Tatum
- Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada
- The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
- How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough
- The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy Tyson
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities by Natasha Warikoo
- One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage by Michael Wolfe
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
- The Winds of War by Herman Wouk
- The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo
- A Nation At Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform by The National Commission
- Candide by Voltaire