Book Recommendations: If you like The 57 Bus

Tells the story of how an Albany High School handled a racist social media incident that caused lasting and devastating consequences.

Author Kindra Neely recounts her journey to healing after surviving a mass shooting during her first year of college.

A graphic novel adaptation of Marc Mauer's study of criminal justice policy in the U.S. that discusses the explosion in prison populations in recent years, and considers the reasons why the national approach to solving crime has been to rely on the prison at the expense of other more effective and humane responses.

An autobiographical comic in which the author discusses their path to identifying as nonbinary and asexual, and coming out to family and society.

Describes how homosexuals were treated during the Holocaust.

Taking readers back to 1924, this shocking true crime story follows two eighteen-year-old college students who kidnapped and murdered a child they both knew, their trial, and how a renowned defense attorney enabled them to avoid the death penalty.

A collection of essays in which inmates at American prisons who were sentenced to death while still in their teens share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up in prison and how they feel about capital punishment.

Bryan Stevenson details from his personal experience his many challenges and efforts as a lawyer and social advocate, especially on behalf of America's most marginalized people.

Deeply researched and fully illustrated, this book demystifies an intensely personal--yet universal--facet of humanity. Illustrating a different concept on each spread, queer author and artist Iris Gottlieb touches on history, science, sociology, and her own experience of the sometimes confusing process of navigating ones' identity gender and sexuality in the 21st century.