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Check out what our faculty and staff recommend!

Miranda Christoffersen recommends:

His Dark Materials: the Golden Compass (Book 1) by Philip Pullman
ISBN: 9780679879244
Publication Date: 1996-04-16
The Odyssey by Homer; Robert Fagles (Translator); Bernard Knox (Introduction by, Notes by)
ISBN: 9780140268867
Publication Date: 1997-11-01
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One the Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One) by Rick Riordan
ISBN: 9780786838653
Publication Date: 2006-04-01
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
ISBN: 0142001805
Publication Date: 2003-02-25

Gus Hedberg recommends:

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
ISBN: 0316216313
Publication Date: 2012-12-11
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson; Patrick Scott (Introduction by); Sara Levine (Afterword by)
ISBN: 1101990325
Publication Date: 2016-05-03
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
ISBN: 1641815434
Publication Date: 2020-03-13

Steve LaRochelle recommends:

The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
ISBN: 9781471139628
The Pine Barrens by John McPhee; James Graves (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0374514429
Publication Date: 1978-05-01
Pastoralia by George Saunders
ISBN: 1573228729
Publication Date: 2001-06-01

Nick Martin recommends:

Dancing after Hours by Andre Dubus; Andre Dubus
ISBN: 0679751149
Publication Date: 1997-03-04
1q84 by Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 0307476464
Publication Date: 2013-01-22
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
ISBN: 1328911241
Publication Date: 2018-10-23

Katey O’Malley recommends:

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon; Lucia Graves (Translator)
ISBN: 0143034901
Publication Date: 2005-01-25
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN: 0385333501
Publication Date: 1998-09-08
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
ISBN: 9781840220841

Maggie Ray recommends:

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino; William Weaver (Translator)
ISBN: 0156439611
Publication Date: 1982-10-20
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
ISBN: 0307477479
Publication Date: 2011-03-22
Life after Life by Kate Atkinson
ISBN: 0316233927
Publication Date: 2013-04-02
The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780006543602
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
ISBN: 0316216453
Publication Date: 2012-12-11
Tenth of December by George Saunders
ISBN: 0812984250
Publication Date: 2014-01-07

Sujin Seo recommends:

How to Cook a Wolf by M. F. K. Fisher
ISBN: 0865473366
Publication Date: 1988-10-01
The World of Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 0099514230
Publication Date: 1988-12-01

Bernadette Teeley recommends:

A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
ISBN: 9781536839104
Publication Date: 2016-08-03
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
ISBN: 9780143125471
Publication Date: 2014-05-27
The Rider by Tim Krabbé; Sam Garrett (Translator)
ISBN: 9781582342900
Publication Date: 2003-06-12
The Disappearances by Emily Bain Murphy
ISBN: 0544879368
Publication Date: 2017-07-04
Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
ISBN: 9780062300546
Publication Date: 2016-06-28

Wilburn Williams recommends:

1491 (Second Edition) by Charles C. Mann
ISBN: 9781400032051
Publication Date: 2006-10-10
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
ISBN: 9780142003343
Publication Date: 2003-08-26
Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
ISBN: 9780143124979
Publication Date: 2014-01-28
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
ISBN: 9780375703867
Publication Date: 2001-06-12
Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith
ISBN: 9780143117957
Publication Date: 2010-10-26
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
ISBN: 9780385474542
Publication Date: 1994-09-01
The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye; James Kirkup (Translator); Toni Morrison (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9781590174555
Publication Date: 2011-08-16
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
ISBN: 9780393317558
Publication Date: 1999-04-17