Reading Lists from Duke University Press 

Staff-curated Reading Lists of recent and relevant books, book chapters, and journal articles focusing on many of today’s most critical issues, including climate change, gender, immigration, labor, police violence, racial justice, radical care, and more. 

• Asian/Pacific American Cultures and Histories
• Care in Uncertain Times
• Catastrophe and Its Aftermath
• Conceptualizing COVID
• Critical University Studies
• Elections in Global History
• Environmentalism and Climate Change
• Feminist Politics and Women’s Rights
• Global Immigration
• Invisible Man
• James Baldwin Centennial
• Labor and Precarity
• Navigating the Threat of Pandemic
• Police Violence
• Political Protests and Movements of Resistance
• Prison and the Carceral State
• Racial Justice
• Reproductive Rights
• Revisiting Queer Studies
• Trans Rights
• Women's Labor

Explore Subjects

The Explore Subjects page automatically filters search results from all of our publishing disciplines for an easy-to-browse list of books and articles from any subject in our catalog.