To suggest a book, video, or other media send an email to learning@storycorps.org with the title, author, appropriate age range, and (if applicable) any programming suggestions or case studies from your library. 

Children:

What's Worrying Darwin? by Bridgett McGowen-Hawkins and Parker Hawkins

Adults: 

Meet Me at the Library by Shamichael Hallman

What books guide your bridging work? Contributions by the One Small Step Team:

How to Know a Person – David Brooks

We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy – Eboo Patel

High Conflict – Amanda Ripley

What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing – Dr. Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey

Feel Free: Essays – Zadie Smith

The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life—His Own – David Carr

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion – Jonathan Haidt

The Anxious Generation – Jonathan Haidt

Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair – Sarah Schulman

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds – adrienne maree brown

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion – Jia Tolentino

The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz

How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self – Dr. Nicole LePera

The Civility Book: A Guide to Building Bridges Across the Political Divide – WSUPress Link

The Promise and Pitfalls of Cross-Partisan Conversations for Reducing Affective Polarization: Evidence from Randomized Experiments – Science.org article

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know – Adam Grant

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action – Simon Sinek

Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation – adrienne maree brown

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities – Rebecca Solnit

You Better Be Lightning – Andrea Gibson

First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country – Thomas E. Ricks

Mythology – Joseph Campbell

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community – Robert D. Putnam

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment – Eckhart Tolle

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection – Charles Duhigg

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture – Kyle Chayka

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East – Sandy Tolan

We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter – Celeste Headlee

How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth – The Moth

The Coddling of the American Mind – Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt