Summer 2017

• The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter by Albie Sachs
• Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

Walter Isaacson, President and CEO of The Aspen Institute:

• Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Carrie Cooper, Dean of University Libraries:

• The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
• The Book of Summer by Michelle Gable
• The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis
• Spies in the Family by Eva Dillion

Kelly Crace, Assistant Vice-President for Health and Wellness:

• God vs Gay? The Religious Case for Equality by Jay Michaelson

Elizabeth Mead:

• Remainder by Tom McCarthy

Eliot Dudik:

• The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton

• River of Shadows by Rebecca Solnit

• Hold Still: a memoir with photographs by Sally Mann 

Kurt Williamson:

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer (Swem has the latest one)

Randy Chambers:

• Diamonds in the Marsh by Barbara Brennessel

Beverly Sher:

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• The Measure of Our Days by Jerome Groopman
• How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman

Tyler Meldrum:

• Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
• Letters to a Young Muslim by Omar Saif Ghobash
• All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

Robin McCall:

• Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
• Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary

Nathaniel Throckmorton:

• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Peter McHenry:

• Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
• Stover at Yale by Owen Johnson
• Murder at the Margin by Marshall Jevons

Donald Campbell:

• Auctions by T.P. Hubbard and H.J. Paarsch
• Reinventing the Bazaar by John McMillan
• Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations by Ray Fisman and Eduard Miguel

Brian Beach:

• The Pox of Liberty: How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection by Werner Troesken

Arthur Knight:

• The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Francesca Sawaya:

• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Chelsey Johnson:

• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Keith Johnson:

• Malice by Keigo Higashino
• Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris
• After Life by Eugene Thacker
• The Warren by Brian Evenson

Adam Potkay:

• Gilgamesh translated by David Ferry
• The Story of Joy by Adam Potkay

Suzanne Raitt:

• To the End of the Land by David Grossman
• Triangle by Katharine Weber

Mary Melfi:

• Pere Goriot by Balzac
• Mask of Innocence by François Mauriac

Monica Potkay:

• The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham
• The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin
• Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers

Kara Thompson:

• The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
• The Round House by Louise Erdrich
• The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America by Sarah Deer

Rowan Lockwood:

• Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton
• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

Tyler Frazier:

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Michael Tierney:

• Noah’s Flood by William Ryan and Walter Pitman
• Greening Aid? by Michael Tierney, Hicks, Parks, and Roberts

Debra Shushan:

• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Larry Evans:

• What it Takes by Richard Ben Cramer
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Paul Manna:

• The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

Amy Oakes:

• Possession by A.S. Byatt
• Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

Dan Maliniak:

• World War Z by Max Brooks

Nicholas Popper:

• Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
• The Night Manager by John Le Carré
• The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution by Robert Parkinson

Chitralekha Zutshi:

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie

Emily Gioielli:

• Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya
• Curtain of Lies by Melissa Feinberg
• Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 by Tony Judt

Judy Allen:

• Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Jerry Watkins III:

• Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
• Men Like That: A Southern Queer History by John Howard
• So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

Nadine Zimmerli:

• Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds by Greg Milner
• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

Andrew Fisher:

• Plutopia: Nuclear Families, atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters by Kate Brown
• Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family by Lauren Kessler
• The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King

Cary Humber:

• Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
• Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire
• La vida es sueno by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Julie Hugonny:

• Saga by Brian Vaughan

Jorge Terukina:

• Royal Commentaries of the Incas by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega

John Riofrio:

• Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis
• Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago

Michael Cronin:

• The Makioka Sisters by Tanizaki Junichiro

Giulia Pacini:

• Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Tomoyuki Sasaki:

• What is Modernity? by Yoshimi Takeuchi (translated by Richard Calichman)
• Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization by Kuan-Hsing Chen

Teresa Longo:

• Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History by Eduardo Galeano

Jennifer Taylor:

• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family by Erik Larson

William Stauffer:

• The Fix by David Baldacci
• Growth is Dead: Now What? By Bruce MacEwen

Jim Bradley:

• Moneyball by Michael Lewis
• Only Humans Need Apply by Thomas Davenport and Julia Kirby
• A Model Discipline by Kevin Clarke and David Primo

James Armstrong:

• Soul by Soul by Walter Johnson
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones

Katherine Preston:

• The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
• Disappearance in Damascus by Deborah Campbell

Timothy Costelloe:

• Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

Eugene Tracy:

• Juvenescence: A Cultural History of our Age by Robert Pogue Harrison

Marc Lee Raphael:

• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Thomas Linneman:

• Freedom Summer by Doug McAdam
• Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity by Joshua Gamson

Elyas Bakhtiari:

• Evicted by Matthew Desmond

Shruti Devgan:

• The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling by Arlie Hochschild
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Boy with the Topknot by Sathnam Sanghera
• Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School by Shamus Khan