My favorite Books for Equity:
Anti-Surveillance, Digital Privacy, Technology Excesses
Anti-War & War-Profiteering
Banned/Frequently Challenged* Books
Challenging Classism, Corporate/Government Malfeasance & Economics
Challenging Privatization/High Stakes Testing/Opportunity Gaps in Education
College/Career Access/Affordability/Attainment and School Counseling
Family/Couple Counseling/Development
History/Challenging Oppressions
Human Sexuality & Gender
Mental Health, Trauma, & Addiction Counseling & Advocacy
Multicultural & Social Justice Counseling/Education:
Narrative Counseling
Novels (including Young Adult)
Parenting
Picture Books
Anti-Surveillance, Digital Privacy, Technology Excesses:
Martin Ford, Rise of the robots: Technology and the threat of a jobless future
Glenn Greenwald, No place to hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. surveillance state
Betty Medsger, The burglary: The discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's secret FBI
Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
Anti-War & War-Profiteering:
James Risen, Pay any price: Greed, power, and endless war
Jeremy Scahill, (Ed.)., The assassination complex: Inside the government's secret drone warfare program
Jeremy Scahill, Dirty wars: The world is a battlefield
Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater: The rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army
David Vine, Base nation: How U.S. military bases abroad harm America and the world
Banned/Frequently Challenged* Books:
Rodolfo Acuna, Occupied America: A history of Chicanos*
Sherman Alexie, The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian
Rudolfo Anaya, Bless me, Ultima*
Bill Bigelow & Bob Peterson. (Eds.). Rethinking Columbus: The next 500 years (2nd ed)*
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Sandra Cisneros, The house on Mango Street*
Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic, Critical race theory*
Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and dimed
Laura Esquivel, Like water for chocolate*
John Green, Looking for Alaska
Robie Harris, It's perfectly normal: Changing bodies, growing up, sex, and sexual health
Robie Harris, It's so amazing: A book about eggs, sperm, birth, babies, and families
Harper Lee, To kill a mockingbird
Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell, And Tango makes three
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter (series)
J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the rye
Alex Sanchez, Rainbow boys
Howard Zinn, A people's history of the United States, 1492-present*/**/***
*Banned by the Arizona state department of education enforcing the city of Tuscon to close down a Mexican-American studies program at the high school level--all the more reason for ALL of us to read these titles!
**Subject of an Arkansas legislature bill to make it a crime for K-12 schools to use any Howard Zinn texts in public schools.
***Subject of former governor of Indiana and Purdue University President Mitch Daniels who wanted to outlaw its use at Purdue (and quickly learned you can't run a University like a business or a governorship due to academic freedom).
Challenging Classism, Corporate/Government Malfeasance & Economics:
Elizabeth Armstrong & Laura Hamilton, Paying for the party: How college maintains inequality
Mehrsa Baradaran, How the other half banks: Exclusion, exploitation, and the threat to democracy
Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and dimed
Martin Ford, Rise of the robots: Technology and the threat of a jobless future
Christopher Hedges & Joe Sacco, Days of destruction, days of revolt
Les Leopold, Runaway inequality: An activist's guide to economic justice
Suzanne Mettler, Degrees of inequality: How the politics of higher education sabotaged the American dream
Peter Sacks, Tearing down the gates: Confronting the class divide in American education
Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Matt Taibbi, The divide: American injustice in the age of the wealth gap
Challenging Privatization/High Stakes Testing/Opportunity Gaps in Education:
Joe Bower & P. L. Thomas, De-testing + de-grading schools: Authentic alternatives to accountability and standardization
Tressie McMillan Cottom, Lower Ed: The troubling rise of for-profit colleges in the new economy
Greg Duncan & Richard Murnane, (eds.)., Whither opportunity? Rising inequality, schools, and children's life chances
Christopher Emden, For white folks who teach in the hood...and the rest of y'all too: Reality pedagogy and urban education
Kathy Emery & Susan Ohanian, Why is corporate America bashing our public schools?
Jesse Hagopian, More than a score: The new uprising against high-stakes testing.
Sara Goldrick-Rab, Paying the price: College costs, financial aid, and the betrayal of the American dream
Pedro Noguera, The trouble with Black boys...and other reflections on race, equity, and the future of public education
Susan Ohanian, One size fits few: The folly of educational standards
Susan Ohanian, What happened to recess and why are our students struggling in kindergarten?
Diane Ravitch, Reign of error: The hoax of the privatization movement and the danger to America's public schools
Diane Ravitch, The death and life of the great American school system: How testing and choice are undermining education
Peter Sacks, Tearing down the gates: Confronting the class divide in American education
P. L. Thomas, (ed). Ignoring poverty in the U.S.: The corporate takeover of public education
Christopher Tienken & Donald C. Orlich, The school reform landscape: Fraud, myth, and lies
College/Career Access/Affordability/Attainment and School Counseling:
Elizabeth Armstrong & Laura Hamilton, Paying for the party: How college maintains inequality
Rebecca Atkins & Alicia Oglesby, Interrupting racism: Equity and social justice in school counseling.
Eric Blanc, Red state revolt: The teachers’ strike wave and working class politics.
Benjamin Castleman and Lindsay Page, Summer melt: Supporting low-income students through the transition to college
Stuart Chen-Hayes, Melissa Ockerman, & Erin Mason, 101 solutions for school counselors and leaders in challenging times
Tressie McMillan Cottom, Lower Ed: The troubling rise of for-profit colleges in the new economy
William Deresiewicz, Excellent sheep: The miseducation of the American elite and the way to a meaningful life
Peter Dewitt, Dignity for all: Safeguarding LGBT students
Carey Dimmitt, John Carey, & Trish Hatch, Evidence-based school counseling: Making a difference with data-driven practices
Greg Duncan & Richard Murnane, (eds.)., Whither opportunity? Rising inequality, schools, and children's life chances
Sara Goldrick-Rab, Paying the price: College costs, financial aid, and the betrayal of the American dream
Trish Hatch, The use of data in school counseling: Hatching results for students, programs, and the profession
Trish Hatch & Judy Bowers, The ASCA National Model: A framework for school counseling programs
Trish Hatch, Danielle Duarte, Lisa De Gregorio, Hatching results for elementary school counseling: Implementing core curriculum and other Tier One activities
Trish Hatch, Whitney Triplett, Danielle Duarte, & Vanessa Gomez, Hatching results for secondary school counseling: Implementing core curriculum, individual student planning, and other Tier One activities
Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy: School counseling to close the achievement gap
Suzanne Mettler, Degrees of inequality: How the politics of higher education sabotaged the American dream
Andrew Kelly & Sara Goldrick-Rab, (Eds.). Reinventing financial aid: Charting a new course to college affordability
National Association for College Admission Counseling, Fundamentals of college admission counseling
Diane Ravitch, Slaying Goliath: The passionate resistance to privatization and the fight to save America’s public schools.
Diane Ravitch, Reign of error: The hoax of the privatization movement and the danger to America’s public schools.
Diane Ravitch,The death and life of the great American school system: How testing and choice are undermining education.
Anne Rothstein, Creating winning grant proposals: A step-by-step guide.
Peter Sacks, Tearing down the gates: Confronting the class divide in American education
Mandy Savitz-Romer: Ready, willing, and able: A developmental approach to college access and success
Sally Springer, Jon Reider, & Joyce Vining Morgan, Admission matters: What students and parents need to know about getting into college
Barbara Trolley, Heather Haas, & Danielle Campese Patti: The school counselor's guide to special education
Lois Weiner, The future of our schools: Teacher unions and social justice.
Beth Zasloff & Joshua Steckel, Hold fast to dreams: A college counselor, his students, and the vision of a life beyond poverty
Family/Couple Counseling/Development:
Stephanie Coontz, The way we never were: American families and the nostalgia trap
Stephanie Coontz, Marriage, a history: How love conquered marriage
Abbie Goldberg, Lesbian and gay parents and their children: Research on the family life cycle
John Gottman, The science of trust: Emotional attunement for couples
John Gottman & Nan Silver, What makes love last? How to build trust and avoid betrayal
John Gottman, Why marriages succeed or fail and how you can make yours last
Monica McGoldrick, Betty Carter, & Nydia Garcia-Prieto, The expanded family life cycle: Individual, family, and social perspectives (4th ed)
Monica McGoldrick, Joseph Giordano, & Nydia Garcia-Prieto, (Eds.)., Ethnicity and family therapy (3rd ed)
Esther Perel, Mating in captivity: Unlocking erotic intelligence
Julie Schwartz Gottman & John Gottman, 10 principles for doing effective couples therapy
Andrew Solomon, Far from the tree, Parents, children, and the search for identity
Froma Walsh, Normal family processes: Growing diversity and complexity (4th ed)
History/Challenging Oppressions:
Rodolfo Acuna, Occupied America: A history of Chicanos
Michelle Alexander, The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindedness
John Boswell, Same-sex unions in pre-modern Europe
Michael Bronski, A queer history of the United States
David Carter, Stonewall: The riots that sparked the gay revolution
Ira Katznelson, When Affirmative Action was White: An untold history of racial inequality in Twentieth-Century America
Juan Gonzalez, Harvest of empire: A history of Latinos in America
Chris Hedges, Wages of rebellion: The moral imperative of revolt
Marc Lamont Hill, Nobody: Casualties of America's war on the vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and beyond
Peter Kwong & Dusanka Miscevic, Chinese America: The untold story of America's
oldest new community
Audre Lorde, Sister outsider: Essays and speeches
Nancy Maclean, Democracy in chains: The deep history of the radical right's stealth plan for America
Rigoberta Menchu, I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian woman in Guatemala
Vijay Prasad, The darker nations: A people's history of the world
Randy Shilts, And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic
Ron Takaki, A different mirror: A history of multicultural America
Ron Takaki, Strangers from a different shore: A history of Asian Americans
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black liberation
Howard Zinn, A people's history of the United States, 1492-present
Howard Zinn, A young people's history of the United States, Vols. 1, 2
Human Sexuality & Gender:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We should all be feminists
Aspen Baker, Pro-Voice: How to keep listening when the world wants a fight
John Boswell, Same-sex unions in pre-modern Europe
David Carter, Stonewall, The riots that sparked the gay revolution
Stuart Chen-Hayes, Double dads one teen: A queer family's trailblazing life in the USA and Taiwan.
Annie Clark & Andrea Pino, We believe you: Surivors of campus sexual assault speak out.
Emily Danforth, The miseducation of Cameron Post
Peter Dewitt, Dignity for all: Safeguarding LGBT students
Sari Dworkin & Fernando Gutierrez, Counseling gay men and lesbians: Journey to the end of the rainbow
Eve Ensler, The vagina monologues
Sara Farzian, If you could be mine
Emily S. Fisher & Karen Komosa-Hawkins, (eds.), Creating safe and supportive learning environments: A guide for working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth and families
Alex Gino, George
Abbie Goldberg, Lesbian and gay parents and their children: Research on the family life cycle
I. W. Gregario, None of the above
Robie Haris, It's not the stork: a book about girls, boys, babies, bodies, families, and friends
Robie Harris, It's perfectly normal: Changing bodies, growing up, sex, and sexual health
Robie Harris, It's so amazing: A book about eggs, sperm, birth, babies, and families
Angela Johnson, The first part last
Kuklin, Beyond magenta: Transgender teens speak out.
David Levithan, Two boys kissing
Audre Lorde, Sister outsider: Essays and speeches
Esther Perel, Mating in captivity: Unlocking erotic intelligence
Julie Anne Peters, Luna
Justin Richardson & Mark Schuster, Everything you never wanted your kids to know about sex (but were afraid they’d ask)
Gabby Rivera, Juliet takes a breath
Caitlyn Ryan & Donna Futerman: Lesbian & gay youth: Care & counseling
Alex Sanchez, Bait
Alex Sanchez, The God box
Sapphire, Push
Randy Shilts, And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic
SIECUS, Guidelines for comprehensive sexuality education K-12 (3rd ed)
A. W. Richard Sipe, A secret world: sexuality and the search for celibacy
Erica Wurth, Crazyhorse's girlfriend
William Yarber & Barbara Sayad, Human sexuality: Diversity in contemporary America (8th ed)
Paul Yee, Money boy
Mental Health, Trauma, & Addiction Counseling & Advocacy:
Ellen Bass & Laura Davis: The courage to heal: A guide for women survivors of child sexual abuseAnnie Clark & Andrea Pino, We believe you: survivors of campus sexual assault speak out
Johan Hari, Chasing the scream: The first and last days of the war on drugs
Judith Herman, Trauma and recovery: The aftermath of violence--from domestic abuse to political terror
Mic Hunter, Abused boys: The neglected victims of sexual abuse
Allen Ivey, Mary Bradford Ivey, & Carlos Zalaquett, Intentional interviewing and counseling: Facilitating client development in a multicultural society (8th ed.)
Linda Seligman & Lourie Reichenberg: Selecting effective treatments: A comprehensive, systematic guide to treating mental disorders (5th ed)
Multicultural & Social Justice Counseling/Education:
Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, & Pat Griffin (eds.), Teaching for diversity and social justice
Maurianne Adams, Warren Blumenfeld, Carmelita Rosie Castaneda, Heather Hackman, Madeline Peters, & Ximena Zuniga, Readings for diversity and social justice
James Banks & Cherry McGee Banks, (eds.), Multicultural education: Issues and perspectives
Bill Bigelow, Linda Christensen, Stan Karp, Barbara Miner, & Bob Peterson, (eds.)., Rethinking our classrooms: Teaching for equity and social justice Volume 1
Bill Bigelow, Brenda Harvey, Stan Karp, & Larry Miller, (eds.), Rethinking our classrooms: Teaching for equity and social justice Volume 2
Bill Bigelow & Bob Peterson, (Eds.). Rethinking Columbus: The next 500 years (2nd ed)
Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic, Critical race theory
Peter Dewitt, Dignity for all: Safeguarding LGBT students
Greg Duncan & Richard Murnane, (eds.)., Whither opportunity? Rising inequality, schools, and children's life chances
Christopher Emdin, For White folks who teach in the Hood...and the rest of y'all too
Emily S. Fisher & Karen Komosa-Hawkins, (eds.), Creating safe and supportive learning environments: A guide for working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth and families
Paulo Friere, Pedagogy of the oppressed
Janet Helms, A race is a nice thing to have: A guide to being a white person or understanding the white persons in your life
bell hooks, Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom
Allen Ivey, Mary Bradford Ivey, & Carlos Zalaquett, Intentional interviewing and counseling: Facilitating client development in a multicultural society
Gloria Ladson-Billings, The dreamkeepers
Enid Lee, Deborah Menkart, & Margo Okazawa-Rey, (eds.), Beyond heroes and holidays: A practical guide to K-12 anti-racist, multicultural education and staff development
Sonia Nieto, Affirming diversity: The sociopolitical context of multicultural education
Pedro Noguera, The trouble with Black boys...and other reflections on race, equity, and the future of public education
Peter Sacks, Tearing down the gates: Confronting the class divide in American education
Derald Wing Sue & David Sue, Counseling the culturally diverse
Narrative Counseling:
Gene Combs & Jill Freedman: Narrative therapy: The social construction of preferred realities
Michael White & David Epston: Narrative means to therapeutic ends
Novels (including Young Adult):
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Becky Albertalli, Simon and the homosapiens
Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia girls lost their accents
Rudolfo Anaya, Bless me, Ultima
James Baldwin, Giovanni's room
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Christian Burch, The Manny files
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury tales (short stories)
Sandra Cisneros, The house on Mango Street
Emily Danforth, The miseducation of Cameron Post
Laura Esquivel, Like water for chocolate
Sara Farzian, If you could be mine
Tim Federle, Better Nate than ever
Tim Federle, Five, six, seven, Nate!
Tim Federle, The great American whatever
Leslie Feinberg, Stone butch blues
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The great Gatsby
Alex Gino, George
John Green, Looking for Alaska
I. W. Gregorio, None of the above
James Howe, The misfits
James Howe, Totally Joe
Shaun David Hutchinson, The five stages of Andrew Brawley
Angela Johnson, The first part last
Brendan Kiely, Tradition...is not an excuse
Harper Lee, To kill a mockingbird
David Levithan, Boy meets boy
David Levithan, Two boys kissing
Malinda Lo, Adaptation (series)
Malinda Lo, Inheritance (series)
Armistead Maupin, Tales of the city (series)
Rigoberta Menchu, I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian woman in Guatemala (autobiography)
Perry Moore, Hero
Toni Morrison, The bluest eye
George Orwell, 1984
Julie Anne Peters, Luna
Isabel Quintero, Gabi, a girl in pieces
Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely, All American boys
Gabby Rivera, Juliet takes a breath
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter (series)
Arundhati Roy, The God of small things
Shawna Yang Ryan, Green island
Benjamin Alire Saenz, Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the rye
Alex Sanchez, Bait
Alex Sanchez, Boyfriends with girlfriends
Alex Sanchez, The God box
Alex Sanchez, Rainbow boys (trilogy)
Alex Sanchez, Rainbow high
Alex Sanchez, Rainbow road
Sapphire, Push
Rakesh Satyal, Blue boy
Takako Shimura, Wandering son (Manga series Vols. 1-9)
Jonathon Swift, A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people from becoming a burthen to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick (essay)
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
Ocean Vuong, On Earth we're briefly gorgeous
Jacqueline Woodson, Brown girl dreaming
Bil Wright, Putting makeup on the fat boy
Erica Wurth, Crazyhorse's girlfriend
Paul Yee, Money boy
Paul Zindel, The Pigman
Marcus Zusak, The book thief
Parenting:
Abbie Goldberg, Lesbian and gay parents and their children: Research on the family life cycle
John Gottman & Joan DeClaire, Raising an emotionally intelligent child: The heart of parenting
Robie Harris, It's perfectly normal: Changing bodies, growing up, sex, and sexual health
Robie Harris, It's so amazing: A book about eggs, sperm, birth, babies, and families
Angela Johnson, The first part last
Justin Richardson & Mark Schuster, Everything you never wanted your kids to know about sex (but were afraid they’d ask)
Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, Raising your spirited child: a guide for parents whose child is more intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent, and energetic
Andrew Solomon, Far from the tree: Parents, children, and the search for identity
Froma Walsh, Normal family processes: Growing diversity and complexity (4th ed.)
Picture Books:
George Ancona, Barrio: Jose's neighborhood
Jeannine Atkins, Aani and the tree huggers
Tricia Brown, Children of the midnight sun: Young native voices of Alaska
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Ballerino Nate
Shirin Yim Bridges, Ruby's wish
Eve Bunting, A day's work
Andrea Cheng, Grandfather counts
Karen Chinn, Sam and the lucky money
Yangsook Choi, The name jar
Diana Cohn, Si se puede/Yes we can! Janitor strike in L.A.
Floyd Cooper, Mandela: From the life of the South African statesman
Linda de Haan, King & King
Linda de Haan, King & King and Family
Yvonne Wakim Dennis, Children of Native America today
Harvey Fierstein, The sissy duckling
Ann Grifalconi, The village that vanished
Bruce Edward Hall, Henry & the kite dragon
Robie Harris, It's perfectly normal: Changing bodies, growing up, sex, and sexual health
Robie Harris, It's so amazing: A book about eggs, sperm, birth, babies, and families
Juan Felipe Herrera, Super Cilantro Girl/La Supernina del Cilantro
bell hooks, Skin again
Jessica Herthel & Jazz Jennings, I am Jazz
Kari Krakow, The Harvey Milk story
Kathleen Krull, Harvesting hope: The story of Cesar Chavez
Munro Leaf, The story of Ferdinand
Katie Smith Milway, One hen: How one small loan made a big difference
Asma Mobin-Uddin, My name is Bilal
Ken Mochizuki, Baseball saved us
Robert Munsch, The paper bag princess
Innosanto Nagara, A is for activist
Jean Davies Okimoto, Winston of Churchill: One bear's battle against global warming
Wally Piper, The little engine that could
Nikolai Popov, Why?
Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, And Tango makes three
Faith Ringgold, Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the sky
Faith Ringgold, If a bus could talk: The story of Rosa Parks
Faith Ringgold, My dream of Martin Luther King
Michael Rumford, Silent music: A story of Baghdad
Ellen Senisi, All kinds of friends, even green
Dr. Suess, The Lorax
Maria Testa, Nine candles
Joan C. Verniero, You can call me Willy: A story for children about AIDS
Mary Williams, The story of the lost boys of Sudan
Jeanette Winter, The librarian of Basra: A true story from Iraq
Jeanette Winter, Wangari's trees of peace: A true story from Africa
Jonah Winter, Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude
Yin, Coolies
Youme, Selavi, That is a life: A Haitian story of hope