NBF Announces 2019 Literature for Justice Program Titles

Oct 03, 2019

The National Book Foundation has announced the selections for the second year of its Literature for Justice program. The five contemporary titles shed light on mass incarceration in the United States. Also announced today are the five committee members tasked with selecting the titles and elevating their visibility as part of Literature for Justice, a three-year campaign seeking to "contextualize and humanize the experiences of incarcerated people through literature of different genres, creating an accessible and thought-provoking collection of books crafted for broad public consumption." The committee comprises Michelle Alexander, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Zachary Lazar, Kelly Lytle Hernandez, and Shaka Senghor.

The five titles are: 

  • The Prisoner’s Wife: A Memoir by asha bandele (Scribner)
  • Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women by Susan Burton and Cari Lynn (The New Press)
  •  Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis (Seven Stories Press)
  • The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner (Scribner)
  • Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair by Danielle Sered (The New Press)
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