HBS Inclusive Excellence (IE) Council urges you to take advantage of the terrific book collection we are growing in the dean's office. With titles to entice you and authors to enlighten you, you are bound to find many worthwhile memoirs, studies, chronicles, reports, etc. Borrow and return on the honor system; just peruse the shelf and sign-out binder in the Dean's reception area. Browse a list of all titles available on the IE Bookshelf:

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Title Author Topics
A Way Out: A Memoir of Conquering Depression and Social Anxiety Michelle Balge Mental health
Barriers and Belonging: Personal Narratives of Disability Michelle Jarman, Leila Monaghan, Alison Quaggin Harkin  
Becoming Michelle Obama  
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Robert M. Sapolsky  
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates  
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine Damon Tweedy  
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All David Kelley  
Debating P.C.: The Controversy over Political Correctness on College Campuses Paul Berman  
Double Take: A Memoir Kevin Michael Connolly  
Everyday Bias: identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgements in Our Daily Lives Howard J. Ross  
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond Poverty
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States Seth M.Holmes  
Group Rights: Reconciling Equality and Difference David Ingram  
Hiding from Myself: A Memoir Bryan Christopher  
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis J.D. Vance  
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Roxane Gay  
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Bryan Stevenson  
Keeping My Balance: A Memoir of Disability and Determination Stephanie Torreno Disability
Love Imagined: A Mixed Race Memoir Sherry Quan Lee  
My Beloved World Sonia Sotomayor  
Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found Rebecca Alexander  
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis Robert D. Putnam  
Poor Families in America’s Health Care Crisis R. Angel, L. Lein, J. Henrici Poverty, health care
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identify, Love & So Much More Janet Mock  
Refocusing my Family: Coming Out, Being Cast out, and Discovering the True Love of God Amber Cantorna Sexual orientation, gender identity
So You Want to Talk about Race Ijeoma Oluo  
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi  
Stronger Jeff Bauman  
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff  
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Richard Rothstein  
The Distance Between Us: A Memoir Reyna Grande  
The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen  
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America Morgan Jerkins  
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality Sarah McBridge  
Undivided: Coming Out, Becoming Whole, and Living Free From Shame Vicky Beeching Sexual orientation, gender identity
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele  
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do Claude M. Steele  
White Fragility – Why It’s So Hard For White people to Talk About Racism Robin Diangelo Racism
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race Beverly Daniel Tatum  

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