Here are some of my favorite Denver bookstores:

Tattered Cover Bookstore

MATTER Bookstore

TeaLee’s Teahouse & Bookstore

Sincerely Reading List:

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who’ve Considered Tithing To The Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn’t Enough by Candice Marie Benbow

Patsy by Nicole Dennis Benn

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown

Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements edited by adrienne maree brown

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

How To Love by Thich Nhat Hanh

Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté with Daniel Maté

Rest Is Resistance - A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Book of Night Women by Marlon James

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

Slaying The Dragon by Michael Johnson

Throw: Poetry and Prose by Kahlil Koromantee

Concrete Kids by Amyra Léon

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

clarity & connection by yung pueblo

Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity by the Lyrical Genius by Rakim

A Gospel of Bones by Suzi Q. Smith

The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb