• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Ibi Zoboi author interview on Brooklyn gentrification

Real-world texts about gentrification, like this 2021 New York Times article “What Gentrification Means for Black Homeowners”

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015). This nonfiction work is formulated as a letter to the author’s son, reflecting on the reality of being Black in America, notably exploring the "racist violence that has been woven into American culture." Coates's book won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction