Books
Need a Book on Tape or in Braille?
The Perkins Library, in collaboration with the Perkins School for the Blind, provides both audio and braille books to the blind and visually impaired free of charge. Visit the library online, or call 617-972-7240 Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm.
Race
- Developing Cultural Humility: Embracing Race, Privilege, and Power - Miguel Gallardo
- Humans - Brandon Stanton (creator of Humans of New York)
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent - Isabel Wilkerson - (Goodreads Choice Awards 2020: Best History and Biography)
- White Fragility - Robin Diangelo
- So You Want to Talk About Race? - Ijeoma Oluo
- Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memories and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist - Franchesca Ramsey
- Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement - John Lewis - (Anisfield-Wolf Book Award: Nonfiction)
- Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860 - Thomas D. Morris - (1997 Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award, Southern Historical Association; 1996 Book Award, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic)
- Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People - Mahzarin R. Banaji
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- The Hill We Climb - Amanda Gorman
LGBTIQA+
- The Gay Agenda: A Modern Queer History and Handbook - Ashley Molesso and Chessie Needham
Women's Rights
- When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to Present - Gail Collins
- The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote - Elaine Weiss - (American Bar Association 2019 Silver Gavel Award)
Holocaust Remembrance
- The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
- Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped Hide the Frank Family - Miep Gies and Alison Leslie Gould
- Night - Elie Wiesel