I’m a big reader of historical fiction and i decided that in 2026 I’m going to focus on reading about stories of people not like me. So far, I’ve read about generations of a Hawaiian family told through their gift of Hula. A based on reality story of a Japanese family interred at Manzanar and an amazing book written by two sisters about that spanned over 200 years of black women in a family from South Carolina.

Because I’m also a librarian, I’ve dug into footnotes, bibliographies and now non-fiction. As my so, a history major said, so really digging into the best of America, huh Mom? 😉

Some Sing, Some Cry, Ntozake Shange, Ifa Byeza

hula, Jasmin Iolani Hakes

Garden of Stones, Sophie Littlefield