Summer Reading: Faculty & Staff Favorites 2025

The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

Everything Sad Is Untrue (a True Story) by Daniel Nayeri

Trust by Hernan Diaz

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

The Summer of Broken Rules by K. L. Walther

Go As a River by Shelley Read

Good Energy by Casey Means; Calley Means

The Women by Kristin Hannah

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

So Many Olympic Exertions by Anelise Chen

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon

Tip of the Spear: The Incredible Story of an Injured Green Beret's Return to Battle by Ryan Hendrickson

All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Olivetti by Allie Millington

Goodbye Wifes and Daughters by Susan Kushner Resnick

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker

Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens

Horse by Geraldine Brooks

Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans

The Women by Kristin Hannah

All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Little Princes by Conor Grennan

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges; Andrew Hurley (Translator)

The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily by Laura Creedle

The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon by Heath Hardage Lee

Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray; Laura Kamoie

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Emotional Lives of Teenagers by Lisa Damour

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Will of the Many by James Islington

The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

Common Sense on Mutual Funds by John C. Bogle; David F. Swensen (Foreword by)

Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green

The Ape That Understood the Universe by Steve Stewart-Williams; Michael Shermer (Foreword by)

That Distant Land by Wendell Berry

Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

Passion Play by W. Edward Blain

James by Percival Everett

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods

All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir

James by Percival Everett

Doce Cuentos Peregrinos / Twelve Pilgrim Tales by Gabriel García Márquez; Gabriel García Márquez

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar; Max Gladstone

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Destiny Disrupted by Tamim Ansary

The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon by Heath Hardage Lee

The Power of One More by Ed Mylett

The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins; Sawyer Robbins

James by Percival Everett

Fire Weather by John Vaillant

The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers

The Women by Kristin Hannah

All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

March: Book One by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)

The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin; Karen Joy Fowler (Foreword by)

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

To Rob a Bank Is an Honor by Lucio Urturbia; Paul Sharkey (Translator); Philip Ruff (Foreword by)

Why Would Feminists Trust the Police? by Leah Cowan

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune

If I Stay by Gayle Forman