I don't think there's a one-size-fits-all book list, but below are some ideas of books I might recommend to students and colleagues.
(This list is in-progress as of June 9th.)
for colleagues:
The Dreamkeepers by Gloria Ladson-Billings
The Challenge to Care in Schools by Nel Noddings
Teaching Community by bell hooks
Teaching Children to Care by Ruth Sidney-Charney
The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer
Learning to Love You More by Harrel Fletcher and Miranda July
Syllabus by Lynda Barry
for middle school:
Just Juice by Karen Hesse
Where the Streets had a Name by Randa Abel-Fattah
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
Anything but Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
A Pocketful of Poems by Nikki Grimes
Freak by Marcella Pixley
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Drawing from Memory by Allen Say
for high school:
Money Hungry by Sharon G. Flake
River Town by Peter Hessler
All These Things I’ve Done by Gabrielle Zevin
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
A Girl Called Problem by Katie Quirk
House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
A Time of Miracles by Anne-Laure Bondoux
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Angry Young Man by Chris Lynch
The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni
Octavia's Brood by Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown
How it Went Down by Kekla Magoon
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange
Many thanks to the Cooperative Children's Book Center at UW-Madison for being an excellent resource!