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Reading Lists

Our reading lists are staff-curated bibliographies of the most recent and relevant book chapters and journal articles focused on today’s most critical social issues, including climate change, labor, racial justice, immigration, pandemics, police violence, radical care, and more.​

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.

Subject Collection Top Title Lists

See a short list of featured titles from each of our ebook subject collections:

• African American, African, and Black Diaspora Studies (PDF)
• Anthropology (PDF)
• Art and Art History (PDF)
• Asian Studies (PDF)
• Environmental Humanities (PDF)
• Gender Studies (PDF)
• LGBTQIA+ Studies (PDF)
• Latin American Studies (PDF)
• Music and Sound Studies (PDF)
• Religious Studies (PDF)
• Transgender Studies (PDF)

These lists are not exhaustive, but are some of the most significant and most-used titles in each collection, and provide a sense of the scope of the categories.

Reading Lists from Demography

Drawing on open-access content across issues of Demography journal, we have compiled a selection of articles on topics of interest useful for research and course preparation.

• Readings on Gender
• Readings on Immigration
• Readings on Families
• Readings on Population Health

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More information

These resources contain links to content from across all of our books and journals. Inclusion on these lists does not necessarily mean that they are always free to read or that they are included in your library’s subscription. To ensure that your library patrons can access the entire Duke University Press corpus of books and journals, subscribe to the e-Duke Books and e-Duke Journals collections.