Resources

NYC Diverse-Owned Bookstores

AAPIA-owned Bookstores

• Eastern Bookstore (New York, NY)
• Yu and Me Books (New York, NY)

Black-owned Bookstores

• The Bronx is Reading (Bronx, NY)*
• Cafe Con Libros (Brooklyn, NY)*
• The Lit Bar (Bronx, NY)
• Revolution Books (New York, NY)
• Sister’s Uptown Bookstore (New York, NY)*

Disabled-owned Bookstores

• Bluestockings Collective (New York, NY)

Jewish-owned Bookstores

• Eichlers (Brooklyn, NY)
• Mekor Judaica (Brooklyn, NY)

Latinx-owned Bookstores

• Bronx Bound Books (Bronx, NY)
• The Bronx is Reading (Bronx, NY)*
• Cafe con Libros (Brooklyn, NY)*
• Chau Luna (Brooklyn, NY)
• The Lit Bar (Bronx, NY)
• Word Up Community Bookshop/Libreria Communitaria (Washington Heights/Inwood, NY)*

LGBTQIA+-owned Bookstores

• Bluestockings Bookstore, Cafe & Activist Center (New York, NY)
• Bureau of General Services—Queer Division (New York, NY)

Diverse Book Subscription Boxes

• BlackLIT
• Jambo Book Club
• Just Like Me Box
• Little Feminist
• marginsbox
• OurShelves
• Shift Book Box
• The Equal Opportunity Book Box

Free, Non-Pirated eBook Websites

• Baen Free Library
• Bibliomania
• Bookboon
• BookBub*
• GetFreeEbooks
• Google Books*
• Google Play Books (Free Section)
• HathiTrust Digital Library
• Hoopla*
• International Children’s Digital Library
• Internet Archive*
• Libby*
• LibriVox
• Literature.org
• ManyBooks
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Open Library
• Open Textbook Library
• PDF Books World
• Planet eBook
• Project Gutenberg*
• Sacred Texts
• Smashwords
• Standard Ebooks
• Wikibooks
• Wikijunior

Notable Resources*

• American Library Association
• Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE
• Black Creators HQ
• Disability in Kidlit
• KidLit in Color
• National Council of Teachers of English
• PB22 Peekaboo
• The New York Public Library: Best Books of 2020
• We Need Diverse Books

*favorite resources