Stress Relief & Intellectual Wellness

Looking for something to read during the break week or between classes? Peruse this recommended reading list from Drexel Libraries staff.

This term, the Libraries' staff picks focus on black history and anti-racism resources. Want to add to this list? Send us your book recommendations.

• Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid [request through DUL]
• JAY-Z: Made in America by Michael Eric Dyson [order online through Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books] 
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin [borrow from DUL] 
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall [request through DUL]
• The Tradition by Jericho Brown -- The “One Book One Philadelphia” 2021 featured read! [order online through Harriett’s Bookshop or borrow it from the Free Library of Philadelphia]
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson [request through DUL]
• Caucasia by Danzy Senna
• Ebony & Ivy by Craig Steven Wilder [request through DUL]
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi [request through DUL]
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad [request through DUL]
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde [request through DUL]
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo [request through DUL]
• Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim [request through DUL]
• When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele 
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo 
• The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead