Interested in what SLU students, faculty, and staff read and watched in 2022? Here are the top 20 most used items in the libraries by category.
eBooks
- The Modern Middle East: A Political History Since the First World War / Mehran Kamrava
- Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches / Lindsay Guarino and Wendy Oliver
- The Police Power / Markus Dirk Dubber
- State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery / Atul Kohli
- A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America / Leila Ahmed
- Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality / Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura T. Hamilton
- The Best War Ever: America and World War II / Michael C.C. Adams
- From Newgate to Dannemora / W. David Lewis
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right / Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Talking Indian: Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance / Jenny L. Davis
- The Next American Revolution / Grace Lee Boggs
- Languages in Africa / Elizabeth C. Zsiga, One Tlale Boyer, Ruth Kramer
- Wrongful Deaths: Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth-Century Korea / Sun Joo Kim and Jungwon Kim
- As a City on a Hill: The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon / Daniel T. Rodger
- Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism / Millicent Marcus
- Ecology and Recovery of Eastern Old-Growth Forests / Andrew M. Barton, William S. Keeton
- Ruined: A Play / Lynn Nottage
- Democracy in the Making: How Activist Groups Form / Kathleen M. Blee
- The River Is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community / Elizabeth Hoover
Print Books
- Memoir: Reasons Why I Left the Amish Community / Sam Miller
- Silverview / John Le Carré
- Malibu Rising / Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The Sentence / Louise Erdrich
- Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction / David George Haskell
- Bloodchild and Other Stories / Octavia E. Butler
- Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History / Stuart Hall
- Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny / Kate Manne
- Independent People: An Epic / Halldór Laxness
- An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- A Little Treasury of World Poetry: Translations from the Great Poets of Other Languages, 2600 B.C. to 1950 A.D
- Loco Afán: Crónicas de Sidario / Pedro Lemebel
- Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance / Gerald Vizenor
- No Longer Human / Osamu Dazai
- Normal People / Sally Rooney
- The Song of Achilles / Madeline Miller
- Spring Awakening: A Children's Tragedy / Frank Wedekind
- Thinking Like a Linguist: An Introduction to the Science of Language / Jordan B. Sandoval, Kristin E. Denham
- Tibetan Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction / Matthew T. Kapstein
- Why Music Moves Us / Jeanette Bicknell
Online Journals
- Nature
- American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings
- Public Library of Science One
- Sex Roles
- Science
- Scientific Reports
- Science of the Total Environment
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Scientific American
- Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity
- Journal of Political Economy
- The American Economic Review
- Environmental Science and Pollution Research International
- American Journal of Public Health
- Archives of Sexual Behavior
- Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
- The Review of Economic Studies
- American Journal of Political Science
- The Lancet
- The Journal of Politics
Streaming Videos
- One Nation Under Stress
- Retablo
- Trail of Tears
- Red Beard
- Traces of the Trade
- Surname Viet Given Name Nam
- Frontline: The Facebook Dilemma
- The Bro Code
- Unforgivable Blackness
- In Sickness and in Wealth
- Slavery by Another Name
- I Dream in Another Language
- Ethnic Notions
- The Rise of ISIS
- Tecumseh's Vision
- Wounded Knee
- Synonyms
- Frantz Fanon, His Life, His Struggle, His Work
- Empires of Gold
- Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst Is Your Waffen