What we’ve been reading…

What’s on your reading list for the winter break? If you are looking for some ideas, browse this list of fiction and non-fiction books that our campus librarians enjoyed during the year. These books can be found in your campus and public library collections. Speak with your librarians for assistance finding these and more. Or, use the WorldCat database to find library copies near you as you venture forth from campus: worldcat.org Fiction (YA=young adult)

Adeyemi, Tomi. Children of Blood and Bone, 2018. (YA; Legacy of Orisha, #1)

Albert, Melissa. The Hazel Wood: A Novel, 2018. (YA; The Hazel Wood, #1)

Benjamin, Chloe. The Immortalists: A Novel, 2018.

Cameron, Sharon. The Forgetting, 2016. (YA; The Forgetting, #1) --The Knowing (#2), 2017.

Carey, Edward. Little, 2018.

Choi, Mary H. K. Emergency Contact, 2018. (YA)

Cusk, Rachel. Kudos, 2018.

Ebershoff, David. The Danish Girl: A Novel, 2001.

Ehle, John. The Land Breakers, 1964.

Gloss, Susan. Vintage: A Novel, 2014.

Greer, Andrew Sean. Less: A Novel, 2017. 2018 Pulitzer Prize, Fiction

Greer, Andrew Sean. The Story of a Marriage: A Novel, 2008.

Halliday, Lisa. Asymmetry, 2018.

Honeyman, Gail. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, 2017.

Jiles, Paulette. News of the World: A Novel, 2016. 2016 National Book Award, Finalist

Kane, Alexander C. and Bahni Turpin (narrator). Andrea Vernon and the Corporation for UltraHuman Protection, 2017. (audio-book)

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Kepnes, Caroline. You: A Novel, 2018.

Kowal, Mary Robinette. The Calculating Stars, 2018. (Lady Astronaut, #1)

Laybourne, Emmy. Monument 14, 2012. (YA; Monument 14, #1) --Sky on Fire (#2), 2013. --Savage Drift (#3), 2014.

Lee, Min Jin. Pachinko, 2017. 2017 National Book Award, Finalist

Machado, Carmen Maria. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories, 2017.

Makkai, Rebecca. The Great Believers, 2018.

Mirza, Fatima Farheen. A Place for Us, 2018.

Murakami, Haruki. Killing Commendatore, 2018.

Norman, Howard. My Darling Detective, 2017.

Olson, Melissa. Boundary Crossed, 2015.

Orange, Tommy. There There, 2018.

Perrotta, Tom. The Leftovers, 2011.

Tóibín, Colm. House of Names, 2017.

Non-Fiction Aikman, Becky. Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge, 2017.

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, [various editions].

Apps, Jerold W. Once a Professor: A Memoir of Teaching in Turbulent Times, 2018.

Chinen, Nate. Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century, 2018.

Cleary, Beverly. My Own Two Feet: A Memoir, 1996.

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me, 2015. 2015 National Book Award Winner 2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, General Nonfiction

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, 2017.

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Cullen, Art. Storm Lake: Change, Resilience, and Hope on the Horizon in America's Heartland, 2018. 2017 Pulitzer Prize, Editorial Writing, Art Cullen

Egan, Timothy. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, 2006. 2006 National Book Award Winner

Evans, Claire. L. Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet, 2018.

Finnegan, William. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, 2016. 2016 Pulitzer Prize, Biography

Hagerman, Margaret A. White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America, 2018.

Johnson, Kirk W. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century, 2018.

Lewis, John, Aydin Andrew and Nate Powell. March, 2013. (March, #1) --March (#2), 2015. --March (#3), 2016. 2016 National Book Award Winner

Lewis, Michael M. The Fifth Risk, 2018.

McNamara, Michelle. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, 2018.

Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, 2017.

Orlean, Susan. The Library Book, 2018.

Purdum, Todd S. Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution, 2018.

Robinson, Tim. Connemara: Listening to the Wind, 2006. (Connemara Trilogy, #1) --Connenara: The Last Pool of Darkness, 2008. --Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom, 2011.

Robinson, Tim. Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage, 1986. (Stones of Aran, #1) --Stones of Aran: Labyrinth, 1997.

Shifrin, Marina. 30 Before 30: How I Made a Mess of My 20s, and You Can Too: Essays, 2018.

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Smarsh, Sarah. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, 2018. 2018 National Book Award, Finalist

Westover, Tara. Educated: A Memoir, 2018.

Poetry

Smith, Danez. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems, 2017. 2017 National Book Award, Finalist

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