Reading lists on Gun Violence

Eight powerful books about the issue, from differing perspectives

Melisa Ragsdale has compiled a list of eight books on the issue of gun violence and guns in society on the Bustle.com website.

Here’s the short list:

1. Columbine by Dave Cullen

2. Gun Fight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America by Adam Winkler

3. The Second Amendment: A Biography by Michael Waldman

4. Living With Guns: A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment by Craig R. Whitney

5. Monday, Monday by Elizabeth Crook ( A novel based on the first campus shooting in the U.S. at the University of Texas in 1966)

6. The Harder They Come by T.C. Boyle (A novel based on a true story)

7. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (This novel surrounds a school shooting in small-town New Hampshire)

8. A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of the Columbine Tragedy by Sue Klebold

Read more about these books on the bustle.com website.

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Listing of books from Questia.com, a research website, offers this list.

Resource from the State of Illinois