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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

  1. The Modern Middle East: A Political History Since the First World War / Mehran Kamrava
  2. Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches / Lindsay Guarino and Wendy Oliver
  3. The Police Power / Markus Dirk Dubber
  4. State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery / Atul Kohli
  5. A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America / Leila Ahmed
  6. Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality / Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura T. Hamilton
  7. The Best War Ever: America and World War II / Michael C.C. Adams
  8. From Newgate to Dannemora / W. David Lewis
  9. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer
  10. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right / Arlie Russell Hochschild
  11. Talking Indian: Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance / Jenny L. Davis
  12. The Next American Revolution / Grace Lee Boggs          
  13. Languages in Africa / Elizabeth C. Zsiga, One Tlale Boyer, Ruth Kramer
  14. Wrongful Deaths: Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth-Century Korea / Sun Joo Kim and Jungwon Kim
  15. As a City on a Hill: The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon / Daniel T. Rodger          
  16. Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism / Millicent Marcus
  17. Ecology and Recovery of Eastern Old-Growth Forests / Andrew M. Barton, William S. Keeton
  18. Ruined: A Play / Lynn Nottage
  19. Democracy in the Making: How Activist Groups Form / Kathleen M. Blee
  20. The River Is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community / Elizabeth Hoover

Print Books

  1. Memoir: Reasons Why I Left the Amish Community / Sam Miller
  2. Silverview / John Le Carré
  3. Malibu Rising / Taylor Jenkins Reid
  4. The Sentence / Louise Erdrich
  5. Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction / David George Haskell
  6. Bloodchild and Other Stories / Octavia E. Butler
  7. Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History / Stuart Hall
  8. Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny / Kate Manne
  9. Independent People: An Epic / Halldór Laxness
  10. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
  11. A Little Treasury of World Poetry: Translations from the Great Poets of Other Languages, 2600 B.C. to 1950 A.D
  12. Loco Afán: Crónicas de Sidario / Pedro Lemebel
  13. Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance / Gerald Vizenor
  14. No Longer Human / Osamu Dazai
  15. Normal People / Sally Rooney
  16. The Song of Achilles / Madeline Miller
  17. Spring Awakening: A Children's Tragedy / Frank Wedekind
  18. Thinking Like a Linguist: An Introduction to the Science of Language / Jordan B. Sandoval, Kristin E. Denham
  19. Tibetan Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction / Matthew T. Kapstein
  20. Why Music Moves Us / Jeanette Bicknell

Online Journals

  1. Nature
  2. American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings
  3. Public Library of Science One
  4. Sex Roles
  5. Science
  6. Scientific Reports
  7. Science of the Total Environment
  8. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  9. Scientific American
  10. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity
  11. Journal of Political Economy
  12. The American Economic Review
  13. Environmental Science and Pollution Research International
  14. American Journal of Public Health
  15. Archives of Sexual Behavior
  16. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
  17. The Review of Economic Studies
  18. American Journal of Political Science
  19. The Lancet
  20. The Journal of Politics

Streaming Videos

  1. One Nation Under Stress
  2. Retablo
  3. Trail of Tears
  4. Red Beard
  5. Traces of the Trade
  6. Surname Viet Given Name Nam
  7. Frontline: The Facebook Dilemma
  8. The Bro Code
  9. Unforgivable Blackness
  10. In Sickness and in Wealth
  11. Slavery by Another Name
  12. I Dream in Another Language
  13. Ethnic Notions
  14. The Rise of ISIS
  15. Tecumseh's Vision
  16. Wounded Knee
  17. Synonyms
  18. Frantz Fanon, His Life, His Struggle, His Work
  19. Empires of Gold
  20. Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst Is Your Waffen