Over the summer we asked our Department of English alumni to share the books they’ve been reading and the books on their to-be-read list. Check out the recommendations below!
Christine Almeida
- The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Miranda Miller Finn (MA, 2006)
- The In-Between by Rebecca K.S. Ansari
- The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After by Julie Yip-Williams
- My Ackee Tree: A Chef’s Memoir of Finding Home in the Kitchen by Suzanne Barr
- Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
- They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us by Prachi Gupta
- Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza
Jacob Gillam (BA, 2011)
- You and Your Profile by Paul J. D'Ambrosio and Hans-Georg Moeller
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th edition core rulebook by Renegade Game Studios
- The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
Tracy Healy (BA/MA, 1988/1990)
- Half-Blown Rose by Leesa Cross-Smith
- The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner
- Zero Days by Ruth Ware
- Happy Place by Emily Henry
- The Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane
- Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum
Clarence Jeffries (BA, 1968)
- The Last Chair Lift by John Irving
- The Wager by David Grann
Megan Kafka (BA, 2022)
- Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
- A Memory called Empire by Arkady Martine
- The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
- Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
- Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
- I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
- Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum
- Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
- The Deep by Nick Cutter
- The Troop by Nick Cutter
- Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda
- The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
- Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
- How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
- I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
- This Thing Between Us by Gus Moren
- My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Colleen Kennedy (PhD, 2015)
- Bad Habits by Amy Gentry
- Blindness by Jose Saramago
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
- The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
- Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder by John Waters
- The Virtues of Aging by Jimmy Carter
Daniel Moore (BA, 1980)
- The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlett
- Cibola Burn (Expanse Series) by James S. A. Corey
- Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum
Will Moran (BA, 2012)
- The George Floyd Uprising: An Anthology by Vortex Group
- The Gallic Wars (Latin and English): De Bello Gallico by Julius Caesar, trans. Franz Ruedele
Rachel Polcek (BA, 2010)
- Happy Place by Emily Henry
- Did You Hear about Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul
- Saving Time by Jenny Odell
Maddy Smyth (BA, 2023)
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Get a Life Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
- Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
