Lavery Library creates monthly book displays to celebrate and recognize the diversity in our community. Each month we aim for at least two display themes. This online guide is an extension of these displays, and include the print and ebooks selected for each theme.
Each title is linked, and either offers a link for full-text ebook, or a request for pickup option for print title. Anything on our print display is available for loan, so if a title interests you, check it out from the Library's Checkout Desk.
Inspired by UC Berkeley’s Summer Reading List for New Students, the books on display during July and August are all about defining moments for individuals, communities, and the world.
This includes popular fiction, novels, scholarly books, and more.
24/7 Politics by 
American Breakdown by 
Archival Silences by 
Army girls: The secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II by 
As We Have Always Done by 
The Bee Sting by 
The Bell Jar by 
Beloved by 
Beyond the Gender Binary by 
Black Lives Matter vs. All Lives Matter by 
Black Shakespeare by 
Borderland by 
Bring the War Home by 
City on Fire by 
Controlling Women by 
Damnation Island by 
Demystifying Disability by 
Does Religion Cause Violence? by 
Embodied Activisms by 
Emoji Speak by 
Everything Is OK by 
Fight of the Century by 
Girlhood by 
How to Grow a Robot by 
Human Health and the Climate Crisis by 
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by 
Know My Name by 
Let the Record Show by 
Man's Search for Meaning by 
Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs by 
Nine Black Robes by 
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by 
Occupied Voices by 
Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) by 
Political Rumors by 
Prophet Song by 
Recognizing Autism in Women and Girls by 
Sexual Citizens by 
Split Tooth by 
Taking Care by 
Teaching Difficult Histories in Difficult Times by 
Textured teaching: A framework for culturally sustaining practices by 
Thinking in Pictures by 
The War on Informed Consent by 
The War on Kids by 
We Do This 'Til We Free Us by 
White Tears/Brown Scars by Below are picture books, young readers, YA books, and more.
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by 
American Born Chinese by 
The Arabic Quilt by 
Areli Is a Dreamer by 
The Artivist by 
The Case for Loving: the Fight for Interracial Marriage by 
Coming Out by 
The Complete Maus by 
Don't Ask Me Where I'm From by 
Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away by 
Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians but Were Afraid to Ask by 
A Few Red Drops by 
Focus on the Women's Suffrage Movement by 
Glimmer of Hope by 
Heartstopper #1: a Graphic Novel by 
History Comics: the National Parks: preserving America's wild places by 
I Am Malala by 
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by 
I Dissent by 
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People by 
A Kids Book about Banned Books by 
A Kids Book about Neurodiversity by 
Living Beyond Borders by 
The Magic Fish by 
Me and White Supremacy: Young Readers' Edition by 
Minnesota Native American Lives: Peggy Flanagan by 
The Other Talk by 
Out of a Jar by 
Persepolis by 
Sit-In by 
A Small Kindness by 
Speak: the Graphic Novel by 
Still I Rise by 
The Talk by 
Vote! by 
We Are Not yet Equal by 
