With school out for summer, our faculty has been digging into their personal reading lists. Here’s a sampling of books that can be found in their beach bags:
Fiction
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgramage, Haruki Murakami
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Outlander Series, Diana Gabaldon
Dubliners, James Joyce
When We Were Birds, poems by Joe Wilkins
The Night In Question, Tobias Wolff
Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Association of Small Bombs, Karan Mahajan
The Year of the Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota
Underworld, Don DeLillo
The Tsar of Love and Techno, Anthony Marra
Forunte Smiles, Adam Johnson
Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
Lo que mueve el mundo, Kirmen Uribe
The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers
American Dervish, Ayad Akhtar
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
A Darker Shade of Magic, V. E. Schwab
The Sense of Ending, Julian Barnes
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope
Outline, Rachel Cusk
Balthazar, Lawrence Durrell
The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa
History
The Guns of August, Barabara Tuchman
Shakespeare in Parts, Simon Palfrey and Tiffany Stern
King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Adam Hochschild
American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good, Colin Woodard
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, Edward Baptiste
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, Charlotte Gordon
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal, David Hoffman
Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes, Stanley Kutler
Byzantium: The Early Centuries, John Julius Norwich
Arts
An Actor’s Companion, Seth Barrish
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz, Geoff Dyer
Akademie X: Lessons in Art and Life, Studio Rags Media Collective
The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman
Science
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, Norman Doidge
The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity, Norman Doidge
Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People, John Harris
Do Unto Animals: A Friendly Guide to How Animals Live, and How We Can Make Their Lives Better, Tracey Stewart
Sports
String Theory, David Foster Wallace
Golf is a Game of Confidence, Bob Rotella
The Match, Mark Frost
The Greatest Game Ever Played, Mark Frost
Sociology
Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams, Alfred Lubano
Memoir
Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race, Debby Irving
Essays
Both Flesh and Not, David Foster Wallace
But What If We’re Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past, Chuck Klosterman
Philosophy
The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius
Self-Improvement
Flight of the Buffalo, James Belasco
The Motivation Manifesto, Brendon Burchard